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Network pics thread

Yes it is business I suppose its because its a dedicated circuit as well. Wish I had that at home!
 
bandwidth costs differ so much by region and ISP it's hilarious. We've got a 100/100 (burstable) at one location, it costs about 200% as much as our 5/5 at another location.
 
I'm just happy I finally have access to something other than VZ dsl. I get to order 15 meg / 640 k cable service tomorrow for $60 a month.

Supposedly it gets bumped to 15/3 in the fall for $5 more.
 
schapman43 said:
What does the service run per month?
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Mike already mentioned but its base price is $199/month which is very reasonable IMHO. It is advertised as 150/35 but it is actually provisioned at 150/75.

My service is a bit more than the base, its $215/month because I have a static IP.

I know the company I work for pays $2000/month for a 100m metro ethernet connection with AT&T in an office that is about as far away from LA as I am (in a different city) and that is only with a 50mbit commit on it.

My connection is 'business' but its not the same level as having a dedicated circuit with AT&T but definitely a very good deal if you ask me. AFAIK its the cheapest (per megabit) service from Verizon.
 
Thanks for the info guys. I live in a small rural town so I won't have anything like that available any time soon. I'd love to have something like that down the road.
 
Vito_Corleone said:
Pics from a deployment I'm on:

7010-1.png


7010-2.png


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UCS-1.png


As usual, sorry for the (lack of) picture quality.
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Hrmm, looks suspiciously like a large DoD project. I hope, for your sake, it is not. You never know who is watching :)
 
Berg0 said:
actually, Cisco will sell a nexus 7K and a few blades to anyone... not sure why you assume its DoD?
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Yea, we just deployed several dozen of these, among shitloads of other networking hardware (Cisco & Juniper & 1000's of servers). Definitely not DoD, but fun as shit, still! :) I can't post pics due to NDA, though.

Great pics! I gotta get some cage screws and finish installing my home network then I'll take some pics of my crappy home network (just finished homemade rack) - designed for CCNA lab and home network.
 
Jay_oasis said:
or why you needed to quote the pictures!
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There are lots of people who are used to posting on forums that automatically turn img tags to url tags on quoted posts.

I agree though, those extra two flicks of the index finger on the scroll just about put me over the edge too.
 
Had some fun ripping some crap out of a building we just leased

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Looking better:
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and no, the 2 3750G and 3845 are not staying in that crappy 2-post rack. It was just close to the smart jacks so we are using it for provisioning / testing until our DS3's get turned up in a few weeks,and our APC netshelter racks arrive. .
 
It was fun thinking about all the painstaking hours the last admin spent terminating, documenting, and supporting that awful infrastructure. It was surprisingly well documented, there was a 3" binder that had a diagram of where every drop went, and what extension they were using.

I took bolt cutters to the whole bundle at once and snipped it.
 
Oh man I would have taken a picture of the bolt cutters to the bundle of wires. I have a phone closet that I need to undo one of these days. At this point there are higher priority things to be done
 
Ohh man i thought i had it bad... I just ripped a Nortel system out of a client of mines place (well actually i LEFT it there, hooked up)... installed a new Panasonic Hybrid IP system. We left the old system up while we installed new, as all phones got swapped out one by one. Old system is still up since their PA equipment goes through it and they never budgeted for a new PA system. What a mess though whoever installed it, nothing was labeled, i had to tone a lot of wires out. I just went back this week and replaced a broken 66 block for the POTS lines, as they had like 4-5 lines per punch. I actually had to do 2 per punch on some since they had fax lines and old analog phones throughout also they wanted to keep... was a pain really, DONT like taking out old equipment unless i can rip it ALL out and run new lines
 
compslckr,
I hope you went to the scrap yard with the wire lol. Did you throw out the Merlin system? You would be surprised there is a lot of it left in the field!
 
We trashed everything. Might do a scrapyard run when we pull all that copper back to the client-side jacks. Should be a few miles worth of copper in there.
 
Vito_Corleone said:
Why does it look like DoD? It's not DoD and it's not particularly large. Just a single 7k, FEXes and some UCS.
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I recognize that carpet in your 1st pic when I used to work for the DoD... be careful dudeeeee.

Maybe I should post pictures of my DWDM gear.. he'll probably think I'm an ex-KGB spy.
 
just2cool said:
I recognize that carpet in your 1st pic when I used to work for the DoD... be careful dudeeeee.

Maybe I should post pictures of my DWDM gear.. he'll probably think I'm an ex-KGB spy.
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He posted pics before of a whole rack he did showing the entire outside area around a building he was working in.
 
rack.jpg


This is the beginning of my rack. Have most of the hardware installed, but not wired up. Once I get some wire management going, I'll update this post. It is made from 2x4's and a 28U rail set. I plan on attaching some sides and a top. I don't have rails in the back side, so the servers are supported in the back by 2x4's.

The PIX Firewall is in the process of being turned into a pfSense firewall. The Dell servers, I was able to pick up for $50 for 17 of them (4 were HP 380 G3's). So, I kept two and am giving/selling the rest (anyone want to come to Eastern Oregon or Tri-Cities, Washington can have one or two). No SCSI HDD's were included, but dual CPU's, tons of RAM, dual PSU's, etc. were all there. The rest is part of my Cisco lab. I have the covers to the routers, just need to put them on. It can get loud, but with the servers and routers off, it's not that bad at all. Eventually, it will end up in the garage, but not yet. It's fun!
 
Replaced the 600MHz P3 with a 1100MHz P3 in my PIX 525 as well as upgraded the tiny heatsink.

From this:
pix515b.jpg


To this:
PIX515_1100.jpg
 
D-EJ915 said:
Replaced the 600MHz P3 with a 1100MHz P3 in my PIX 525 as well as upgraded the tiny heatsink.

From this:
pix515b.jpg


To this:
PIX515_1100.jpg
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Would you be able to post this in the "What's Inside "THAT" firewall Pictures Thread"

thanks..
 
Ur_Mom said:
rack.jpg


This is the beginning of my rack. Have most of the hardware installed, but not wired up. Once I get some wire management going, I'll update this post. It is made from 2x4's and a 28U rail set. I plan on attaching some sides and a top. I don't have rails in the back side, so the servers are supported in the back by 2x4's.

The PIX Firewall is in the process of being turned into a pfSense firewall. The Dell servers, I was able to pick up for $50 for 17 of them (4 were HP 380 G3's). So, I kept two and am giving/selling the rest (anyone want to come to Eastern Oregon or Tri-Cities, Washington can have one or two). No SCSI HDD's were included, but dual CPU's, tons of RAM, dual PSU's, etc. were all there. The rest is part of my Cisco lab. I have the covers to the routers, just need to put them on. It can get loud, but with the servers and routers off, it's not that bad at all. Eventually, it will end up in the garage, but not yet. It's fun!
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What are those right below the cisco switches?
 
Ok guys, here is my first contribution to this thread aside from the stuff I have at home. This is the rack I have at work that I am working on. Now this is not my mess! I started work with it like this and once we are done with our migration I will be fixing this to make it look good which will be another good learning experience for me!

So laugh and say what you want but just remember I did not create this!

What you see here is as follows

PowerConnect 2848
PowerConnect 5448
CISCO ASA 5510
Dell PowerEdge R515( ESXi Host 1)
Dell PowerEdge R515( ESXi Host 2)
I forget what the huge one is,
Dell PowerEdge 2850
Dell PowerEdge 2850
APC UPS #1
2 more old Poweredges ( i forget the name)
UPS at the bottom

We also have a DroboElite for backup that is not in the picture along with a Synology DS1511+ that is going to be our ESXi Datastore.

For our virtualization project we got the two R515's and the PowerConnect 5448. The 2850's will be getting recommissioned as vCenter Server/Backup Exec Media Server and various other things and the other one will be backup physical DC + DFS for shared folder redundancy.

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nitsuj said:
finally a picture from home...

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top to bottom...

1232 (workgroup bridge for connectivity to my home network)
3 pdu's
3x 3640 (tons of interfaces)
1x 2621xm
1x 2651xm
1x pix515e
2x 3550-24
2x 3640g-48ps
1x 4530 sup2+ts 4548-gb-rj45v 4448-gb-rj45
1x ls1010
1x 6506 sup2-msfc2 6408-gbic 6148a-gb-45af

not everything is plugged in yet...ran out of patch cables, need to come up with some more ...still need more atm interfaces so i can get everything in the atm cloud (unless i scrap that idea for now), to figure out what im going to do to get the octal's to reach everything for console and a flexwan or two for the 6500, its going to be my frame switch...once everything is plugged in ill make a visio and share it...

not pictured is my home network...2811 with a 16 port ESW, 2fxo card, an ap-1232 for wireless for home and a lap-1152 that connects to office extend at work (which is awesome)
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hard to tell but is that leaning against the wall? can a 2 post rack support that?
 
Vito_Corleone said:
Here's my stuff:

Internet Router and WAP:
871_WAP.jpg


Horrible Cabling :( :
Rack1.jpg


ESX Server:
ESXBox1.jpg


Fileserver
Server1.jpg


I should have unplugged the mess of cables before taking pics, but I didn't feel like it.:oops:

In the rack:

1x7905
1x7940
1x5505
1xDell 2624 (needed something gigabit)
1x3550
3x2950
1x1760
2x2514
1x2512
2x3640
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What Rack do you use?
 
AMD_Gamer said:
Ok guys, here is my first contribution to this thread aside from the stuff I have at home. This is the rack I have at work that I am working on. Now this is not my mess! I started work with it like this and once we are done with our migration I will be fixing this to make it look good which will be another good learning experience for me!

So laugh and say what you want but just remember I did not create this!

What you see here is as follows

PowerConnect 2848
PowerConnect 5448
CISCO ASA 5510
Dell PowerEdge R515( ESXi Host 1)
Dell PowerEdge R515( ESXi Host 2)
I forget what the huge one is,
Dell PowerEdge 2850
Dell PowerEdge 2850
APC UPS #1
2 more old Poweredges ( i forget the name)
UPS at the bottom

We also have a DroboElite for backup that is not in the picture along with a Synology DS1511+ that is going to be our ESXi Datastore.

For our virtualization project we got the two R515's and the PowerConnect 5448. The 2850's will be getting recommissioned as vCenter Server/Backup Exec Media Server and various other things and the other one will be backup physical DC + DFS for shared folder redundancy.



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First thing that came to mind when I saw the cables.
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Cool toys though. :)
 
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