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We are a phone company (CLEC), however, instead of leasing copper from the ILEC's we instead run fiber to business/residences and offer voice/internet. Here in the next year or two we will more than likely be doing Cable as well. About 2 years about we overbuilt our first market, to date we have right at 50 miles of fiber in that community, this buildout is quite a bit smaller and we don't need as much fiber as we did in the last buildout (new equipment = better speeds and more subs per fiber).

The reason for all the racks is just so we're futureproof. It's easier to spend a few thousand now and not have to worry about drilling holes once we have equipment in place...concrete dust is a PITA to control.

I'll see if I have any pictures of our current buildout and post those as well.

AMD_RULES said:
wow, pretty impressive...what will the network be for? What type of company?
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Here is a picture from a few years ago when we were installing equipment. There is quite a bit more equipment there now but this gives an idea.

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Starting on the Left

Bay 1 - Top to Bottom:
Fuse Panel
Sun Netra T1(I think) - Runs element management for our Class 4/5 Phone Switch
Serial Concentrator
MetaSwitch MG3510 - This is our phone switch, fully loaded it can switch right at 70,000 concurrent calls. 10 years ago this same piece of equipment would have taken up an entire building and would have cost several million dollars, cost and space have come down a LOT...one plus of the dot com days!


Bay 2 -
Extreme Networks 6808 - Our Core switch in the network

Bay 3 - Top to Bottom
Fuse Panel
Wave 7 LML Core - Each chassis can support up to 192 customers by using PON (Passive Optical Networking). We plug 1 fiber into these and out in the field they go into a passive fiber splitter that splits the fiber out 8 ways, we can offer up to 100 Mb per customer on this equipment. The new equipment we are going to deploy now only takes up 1 RU and can do 512 customers per chassis with GigE up/down to the customer.
 
DSL Westell versalink 327W, DLink DSS-16+, DLink DSM-G600 Network storage.
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Server *spec sig*
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HD's
320GB OS
74GBGB for Game server files.
500GB for Backup's
500GB for Download files
x2 60GB Games

*about that 8800GTX I got that for free :) I will change it out later to save power and heat.*
 
Just cleaning up my photos folder and I discovered these so figured I might as well post them.

Last winter I decided to clean up one of the patch cabinets in our office. It went from this:



and finally:


Due to the size of the building and office restrictions we have had to shoehorn comms equipment in odd places (there is a fireplace in our main server room). That patch cabinet is in some ones office.

I will post pics of the main server room when I did out the pictures.
 
How the HELL did it get it so messy? Even the final picture it looks messy. I couldn't even work in an enviroment like that... I would come in on weekends or after work just so that can be tidy. lol
 
Oh I've seen those cabinets get much worse! It just takes time and urgency. When the department doesn't see the value in doing the job right the first time, it can happen without much effort at all! Great work funstuie!!
 
Ockie said:
How the HELL did it get it so messy? Even the final picture it looks messy. I couldn't even work in an enviroment like that... I would come in on weekends or after work just so that can be tidy. lol
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Staff who don't give a shit. It took me 15 hours to get it to the state it's in in that last pic. I had to do each port individually as it was such a mess and I had to trace all the cables back. That cabinet is phone and network so I had to make sure the phones were re patched within 10 minutes or they loose their settings. The end result was 100 times better than the beginning. It's in even better condition now as I removed two of the routers.

This is the patch panel in our main server room:

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Most of that is the result of our network manager. He has not got a clue about proper cable management. I have given tidying up after him. That cabinet is 10 times worse now than when that pic was taken (about a year ago). The shelving and rack is not in there any more.

Wait till you see the pic of the rack cabling he did a few months ago. You will either cry of piss yourself laughing. I will post the pic when I bring my camera to work.
 
funstuie said:
Staff who don't give a shit. It took me 15 hours to get it to the state it's in in that last pic. I had to do each port individually as it was such a mess and I had to trace all the cables back. That cabinet is phone and network so I had to make sure the phones were re patched within 10 minutes or they loose their settings. The end result was 100 times better than the beginning. It's in even better condition now as I removed two of the routers.

This is the patch panel in our main server room:

Most of that is the result of our network manager. He has not got a clue about proper cable management. I have given tidying up after him. That cabinet is 10 times worse now than when that pic was taken (about a year ago). The shelving and rack is not in there any more.

Wait till you see the pic of the rack cabling he did a few months ago. You will either cry of piss yourself laughing. I will post the pic when I bring my camera to work.
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Damn, I feel for you. Can't wait to see the other pics!
 
Jay_oasis said:
we didn't have a network at high school!

i'm only 25 as well so its not that long ago.
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I graduated from HS in 2003 and even then while we did have a network, it was running off ot 10mbit hubs. It was painfully slow. Also at that tiem the most common PCs in there were 133MHz Pentiums. total crap in my opinion!
 
iGamer said:
I graduated from HS in 2003 and even then while we did have a network, it was running off ot 10mbit hubs. It was painfully slow. Also at that tiem the most common PCs in there were 133MHz Pentiums. total crap in my opinion!
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I guess I was lucky. I graduated from HS in 96 and we had a very sporty Appletalk/Localtalk network! :D

I don't think the speed was even 1 mb/s but it was only for Firstclass E-mail access and to share the 56k Frame Relay line that provided internet access to the whole school system.

We even had all the school buildings in the town connected to each other using these "Gator" boxes as someone called them. 2.5 mb/s over the i-loop cable company setup. One upstream and one downstream wire, you'd stick both together with a splitter and plug them into these Gator boxes. They were really just bridges.
 
Valve, sounds a lot like my school. They used to have all that appletalk and gator box stuff. They had T1 lines between the schools, which has now been replaced by fiber. They still use FirstClass though!
 
As promised folks here is Funstuie's guide to "How not to cable up a server room"

These photos are real and of a live and working server room/patch panel. As I mentioned before I have given up trying to sort this shit out as my colleague just doesn't bother cabling properly.


It's really hard to sort out cabling once a server is up an running and hosting live websites. But I have a project to replace the UPS's so I can re-cable the server racks. The patch panels are a lost cause.
 
Sorry to distract from the rest of the thread, but could you define what a Grade 2 building would be?
 
Xipher said:
Sorry to distract from the rest of the thread, but could you define what a Grade 2 building would be?
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Grade C (also Known as Grade II)
Of significance in the local historical/vernacular context, including industrial archaeological features, and worthy of retention.
 
Finally to add something to this thread.
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Nothing fancy, Soekris net5501, Linksys SR224, and a Linksys WAP54G. Got the net5501 running on flashboot, and it's been great to work with so far.
 
Posted these in another thread, thought I'd post them here too.


I'm the IT Admin for a very small department on a college campus. We run a couple fileservers, a web/mail server, and our actual office has about 15 client workstations on Windows XP.
Running FreeBSD on all the servers, and Ubuntu 6.10 on the "monitoring" server (pictured with my workstation below)

these pictures are old -- we just got new workstations and two new servers delivered. I'll post new pictures in a few weeks when everything is installed :D

Servers, switch, battery backup:
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Another angle of the servers:
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My workstation (left) and the cacti/snmp monitoring "server" (right)
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extreme HVAC system!:
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I guess I should share the pics of the Madlan.net network :)


Game servers, 7,000 feet of fiber... more fiber than you would find in a wheaties box...
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Field Switches, server switch, and KVM. The Field switches are Extreme Networks Summit 48's with dual trunked GIG SX Fiber connection, providing you a total of 4Gbps of bandwidth to each switch! The server switch is a full wirespeed 24 port gigabit switch designed for server backends and features a 4 port trunked connection to the master switch at a screaming speed of 8Gbps. Lag is something unheard of.
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Core Switch. This is a high level fully switched, wirespeed, gigabit switch. Extreme Networks Summit 7i. Featuring more options than a McDonalds menu and a lot of speed.
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Testing the network, still waiting on some more GBICs and other little odds and ends.
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Ockie said:
Core Switch. This is a high level fully switched, wirespeed, gigabit switch. Extreme Networks Summit 7i. Featuring more options than a McDonalds menu and a lot of speed.
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But will they undercook my fries free of charge like McDonalds?
 
Well.... time for a quick update, Im also going to try and get a network diagram together sometime soon.

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The rack was completely redone recently to optimize airflow and conserve space. From the bottom up,
APC-400
Keyview 8-port KVM
ESX server
1.5TB File-server
Dell 15" LCD for managment
PfSense firewall
Cisco 2950
Proxim AP-600

ESX box is dual NIC'd and doing L4 load sharing(temporarily) which probably isn't the best way to do things because frames are basically being mirrored back to my switch(I need something L3) but its better than one NIC.

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One word.. Clean
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Tried something different this time, mounted the patch panel at the bottom of the rack, I really like the results.
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And the workstation
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I just recently setup my thin clients with the SRS and Windows connector so I can control all my virtual machines as well as have a quick linux GUI session. Im really happy with ESX and the thin clients.


Let me know what you guys thing. I didn't post up any big network related pictures because all of my network gear is now virtualized.... I have networks ranging from 5 router to 15 router labs with all kinds of indepth Cisco technologies(HSRP,DMVPN,L2TPv3, IPv6, channeling labs, etc.). I also plan on trunking all my virtualized equipment to a fully redundant L3 collapsed core to complete my CCIE lab.
 
renovoCS said:
xphil3 i take it you built that rack yourself? what materials did you use? expense?
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The build was actually much much nicer originally(door, mouldings, etc). The sides and bottom of the rack are composite wood(not a good idea btw, fire hazzard as well as a heat insulator), it has casters, and the rails are straight from a 42U cabinet cut to fit my closet at the time(rack was built my last year of HS, around 5 years ago). I believe its around 36U.....

The expense was cost of the wood,casters, and plexi door(I got the rails free), so it was around 50 bucks maybe...
 
My little home network

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Dell PowerEdge 350 storage servers

The Dell switch will be replaced with the Cisco 3524 and the Linksys router will be replaced with a Cisco 2621.

NETGEAR WG302 Wireless Access Point

I use the laptop to remote into the servers
 
Hey guys :) This is my first post.. a friend of mine linked me over here when he saw the little network diagram I drew up for my house, said I should post it up, so here it is!
Nothing too special, just a small home network.In reference to the diagram, the 3 rooms in the top left were wired with Cat5E when the house was built, so those wires are already there. The office needs 2 ports because right now the internet comes into the office directly, but we'll be getting FiOS soon and I want it to go straight to the equipment closet, then split out to the rest of the house.
Equipment includes a Cisco 2912-XL-EN 12-port switch, and a router a friend of mine is building me from an old Dell Optiplex, which will all be mounted in a cabinet in the closet under the stairs.
Anyway, here it is:
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And here's a link to the image at native size:
http://www.aww-kittah-aww.com/up/files/515/Diagram%20-%20Full-Size.jpg

Oh, by the way, that diagram is 100% Photoshop :)
 
Very Nice Picture... I love the technical style :D
Is there a trick to create 3D in Photoshop or is it all drawn by hand ??
 
Thanks :)
Kinda both.. I drew the floor plan to scale, then rotated it 60 degrees to get the 30-60 angles set, then just transformed it vertically to make it look like a 3D plane, then worked upward from it, drawing verticals and whatnot by hand.
 
haha you know, I thought about it! I looked into NAS stuff, but realized I was already spending way too much money on this thing and I can just share files from my main computer or something..
 
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