IT Question

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » November 21, 2005 11:53 am

I forgot which slot this one goes into. Plug "#153" into slot "QEZ"? Help!

mings · Post by **mings** » November 21, 2005 12:04 pm

you're having a problem because cord #64 has been mistakenly inserted into #FG39Z. That's a fairly common problem.

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » November 21, 2005 12:26 pm

mings wrote:you're having a problem because cord #64 has been mistakenly inserted into #FG39Z. That's a fairly common problem.

I knew there was an error somewhere.

Thanks for your help!

mings · Post by **mings** » November 21, 2005 12:33 pm

land_shark3 wrote:
mings wrote:you're having a problem because cord #64 has been mistakenly inserted into #FG39Z. That's a fairly common problem.
I knew there was an error somewhere.

Thanks for your help!

Ahhh. No worries.

The_Polly_Roger · Post by **The_Polly_Roger** » November 21, 2005 1:19 pm

This picture looks like it was taken from one of our data closets

Of course ours have MANY switches like this (although we use better cable managment). I'm curious what the green cable is being used for, looks like a temporary patch.

The Orange cables are the trunked fiber uplinks

mings · Post by **mings** » November 21, 2005 1:26 pm

The_Polly_Roger wrote:This picture looks like it was taken from one of our data closets

Of course ours have MANY switches like this (although we use better cable managment). I'm curious what the green cable is being used for, looks like a temporary patch.

The Orange cables are the trunked fiber uplinks

I'm intimidated by your knowledge of cables.

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » November 21, 2005 1:56 pm

The_Polly_Roger wrote:The Orange cables are the trunked fiber uplinks

I'm a little concerned about the bend radius on the fiber.

The_Polly_Roger · Post by **The_Polly_Roger** » November 21, 2005 1:57 pm

mings wrote:
The_Polly_Roger wrote:This picture looks like it was taken from one of our data closets

Of course ours have MANY switches like this (although we use better cable managment). I'm curious what the green cable is being used for, looks like a temporary patch.

The Orange cables are the trunked fiber uplinks
I'm intimidated by your knowledge of cables.

Oh cable knowledge, well the yellow on green cables look to be Cat 6 cable and the orange cable looks to be 50/125 Optical Fiber OFNR. The switch looks like the Bay Networks ATM Router we used to have before we went with the Foundry Networks Gigabit Routers we currently use.

Are you intimidated?

AlbatrossFlyer · Post by **AlbatrossFlyer** » November 21, 2005 1:58 pm

mings wrote:
The_Polly_Roger wrote:This picture looks like it was taken from one of our data closets

Of course ours have MANY switches like this (although we use better cable managment). I'm curious what the green cable is being used for, looks like a temporary patch.

The Orange cables are the trunked fiber uplinks
I'm intimidated by your knowledge of cables.

the green one looks like a standard CAT 5 ethernet cable....

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » November 21, 2005 2:00 pm

The_Polly_Roger wrote:
mings wrote:
The_Polly_Roger wrote:This picture looks like it was taken from one of our data closets

Of course ours have MANY switches like this (although we use better cable managment). I'm curious what the green cable is being used for, looks like a temporary patch.

The Orange cables are the trunked fiber uplinks
I'm intimidated by your knowledge of cables.
Oh cable knowledge, well the yellow on green cables look to be Cat 6 cable and the orange cable looks to be 50/125 Optical Fiber OFNR. The switch looks like the Bay Networks ATM Router we used to have before we went with the Foundry Networks Gigabit Routers we currently use.

Are you intimidated?

Actually, due to the high number, I would hope they would use SuperCAT which is both individually shielded and has an overall shielding.

The_Polly_Roger · Post by **The_Polly_Roger** » November 21, 2005 2:00 pm

AlbatrossFlyer wrote:
mings wrote:
The_Polly_Roger wrote:This picture looks like it was taken from one of our data closets

Of course ours have MANY switches like this (although we use better cable managment). I'm curious what the green cable is being used for, looks like a temporary patch.

The Orange cables are the trunked fiber uplinks
I'm intimidated by your knowledge of cables.
the green one looks like a standard CAT 5 ethernet cable....

Yes it does

The_Polly_Roger · Post by **The_Polly_Roger** » November 21, 2005 2:03 pm

land_shark3 wrote:
The_Polly_Roger wrote:
mings wrote:
The_Polly_Roger wrote:This picture looks like it was taken from one of our data closets

Of course ours have MANY switches like this (although we use better cable managment). I'm curious what the green cable is being used for, looks like a temporary patch.

The Orange cables are the trunked fiber uplinks
I'm intimidated by your knowledge of cables.
Oh cable knowledge, well the yellow on green cables look to be Cat 6 cable and the orange cable looks to be 50/125 Optical Fiber OFNR. The switch looks like the Bay Networks ATM Router we used to have before we went with the Foundry Networks Gigabit Routers we currently use.

Are you intimidated?
Actually, due to the high number, I would hope they would use SuperCAT which is both individually shielded and has an overall shielding.

Nope, looks like Cat 6.

Anyway how about that guy Jimmy Buffett?

Lundah · Post by **Lundah** » November 21, 2005 6:54 pm

I work on that kind of stuff all day, the box on the top is a Cisco 3550 Ethernet switch.

Now imagine that multiplied a few hundred times, and that's what your local phone company switching office looks like (except much better cable managment, and stuff is labeled).

rsgeist · Post by **rsgeist** » November 21, 2005 11:08 pm

I think the real problem is that the thingamajig is plugged into the whatchamacallit and that's shorting out the hoojeewhatsit.

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » November 21, 2005 11:16 pm

rsgeist wrote:I think the real problem is that the thingamajig is plugged into the whatchamacallit and that's shorting out the hoojeewhatsit.

Finally, someone who knows what they are talking about.

Lundah · Post by **Lundah** » November 22, 2005 7:03 pm

mings · Post by **mings** » November 22, 2005 9:20 pm

This thread has WAY TOO MANY serious responses and should therefore be locked. NOW.