Network pics thread

Love the RJ45 coupler and single twisted pair woven throughout the wiring. Funny thing is they had the wiring management loops in place but never bothered.
 
ryang said:
Love the RJ45 coupler and single twisted pair woven throughout the wiring. Funny thing is they had the wiring management loops in place but never bothered.
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Someone probably needed a phone line somewhere. Seen that tons of times.
 
25 pair amphenol from shoretel box to 66 block, single pair cross connect to a port on the patch panel...so probably a fax line or something.
 
Amphenol connectors are cool. Should see the back of the DSLAMs at work. Pure cable porn. I doubt I'd be allowed to post pics though. I keep forgetting to ask.
 
Julianb55 said:
Nice to see other Mainers in here! Here is some of our stuffz.

Our USC Chassis and some other servers.

UCS. Maxed out now, Just added the bottom 2 192GB RAM and will join our ESX Cluster.

ESX.

NetApp Shelves.

What we are chucking.

Networking Hell. Where getting new core soon and will rewire EVERYTHING.

PBX :-( also getting ripped out soon.


Rack at our other location. Mmm pretty.

Some other fun stuff here!

iPods for our customer ordering devices. We have about 100 of these around New England managed on Meraki.

New stuff to hand out.

My Rig at work.

Then the not so fun stuff...


UPS for Phone Sys. Almost every pack was like this, this was just the worst.

This is what the inside of most of the warehouse PCs look like...
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what industry are you in? southern maine, i'm guessing? i'm up in the county, currently. we typically don't have money to buy a bunch of nice things, hah.
 
How would you go about making sure networking equipment in a small well house would be able to withstand winter and summer seasons? Inside the well-house the floor is just dirt, and the walls and liftable roof of wood. To prevent freezing of the well-house pump and pipes there is some of that fiberglass insulation though not a lot and an infrared heating lamp that is turned on during fall and winter seasons.

or .... if you decided to make a small building that is the size of a walk-in closet how would you build it and ensure sufficient enough temperature control that your equipment wouldn't burn or freeze out? We're talking a small 16-port switch, a couple POE adapters, a couple RJ45-to-fiber adapters, a small desk UPS, and an APC Line-R automatic voltage regulator.
 
Cerulean said:
How would you go about making sure networking equipment in a small well house would be able to withstand winter and summer seasons? Inside the well-house the floor is just dirt, and the walls and liftable roof of wood. To prevent freezing of the well-house pump and pipes there is some of that fiberglass insulation though not a lot and an infrared heating lamp that is turned on during fall and winter seasons.

or .... if you decided to make a small building that is the size of a walk-in closet how would you build it and ensure sufficient enough temperature control that your equipment wouldn't burn or freeze out? We're talking a small 16-port switch, a couple POE adapters, a couple RJ45-to-fiber adapters, a small desk UPS, and an APC Line-R automatic voltage regulator.
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They make heated NEMA enclosures. What are you trying to do? That microwave ISP setup?
 
Newest storage array... EMC XtremIO. This is the first array in cincinnati. It consistent of 2x 20TB bricks.


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We've not really done any IOP saturation but based on some vmotion and msc other task it easily produces 500,000 io.
 
VisBits said:
Newest storage array... EMC XtremIO. This is the first array in cincinnati. It consistent of 2x 20TB bricks.
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Might be the first in Cincinnati but not in Ohio. We've had ours up north here for a few months.

I don't get to play with it but I hear the storage guys really like it.
 
Wow that's some crazy data transfer rates. Is this SSDs? How long do SSDs last in a typical mass storage array under enterprise heavy usage?
 
Progress.



A few pending items, including getting the power off the floor, completing the waterfalls, etc.

If I were to put a percentage on it, I'd say it's about 90% completed, however we're 100% operational. Which is really all that matters right now, hott sexx style can come later.
 
MikeTrike said:
Progress.

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A few pending items, including getting the power off the floor, completing the waterfalls, etc.

If I were to put a percentage on it, I'd say it's about 90% completed, however we're 100% operational. Which is really all that matters right now, hott sexx style can come later.[/QUOTE]

Are those pull strings coming out of the conduit in the background? If so, those are some monster pull strings.

Racks look good, what relay rack is that? It looks strangely familiar. Any reason you went with the angled patch panel? I have always avoided them just because they are different; i have never used one. How do you like it?

Any plans to install an in-wall jack for that voip phone?

Explanation of the safe? Kind of weird to see that in that location. I'm guessing it's located there because of the fire suppression in combination with the fire rated safe.

Cooling?
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Pull tape inside of each woven poly sheath.

I don't recall the brand of the 2-post, I made the call for angled because I've never used it before, I have nothing negative to report.

Wall is double sheetrock, we're were thinking surface mount biscuit jack and raceway. However I was also thinking a W52P cordless handset...

Fire safe is temp local storage for tapes, I don't want to break my leg in the data center, so to the corner it goes.
 
WesM63 said:
Might be the first in Cincinnati but not in Ohio. We've had ours up north here for a few months.

I don't get to play with it but I hear the storage guys really like it.
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That sucks, what are you going to use to move all the data to while you delete it and reinstall to update for 3.0 code? 2.4 > 3.0 requires a full reinstall of the system. Going forward they are telling us its non disruptive though.

Red Squirrel said:
Wow that's some crazy data transfer rates. Is this SSDs? How long do SSDs last in a typical mass storage array under enterprise heavy usage?
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Yes its pure flash, they use hitachi 800gb sas ssds. I have no idea on the life but flash is super durable any more and its pretty much irrelevant at this point. Spindles are less reliable.
 
VisBits said:
That sucks, what are you going to use to move all the data to while you delete it and reinstall to update for 3.0 code? 2.4 > 3.0 requires a full reinstall of the system. Going forward they are telling us its non disruptive though.



Yes its pure flash, they use hitachi 800gb sas ssds. I have no idea on the life but flash is super durable any more and its pretty much irrelevant at this point. Spindles are less reliable.
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We have pretty much the full range of EMC products with plenty of storage space. (VMAX, VNX, Isilon)

It might might not be in production yet. (Different team)
 
in April, we built a "public" WiFi in our town hall and fire department next door. "Public" because it is secured by WPA2 where only users of the town hall and all members of the fire department know the key, and they also know that it can be changed any time.
Reason for all that was that the town hall is a massive block of concrete with steel inside, no cell phone provider had any chance to deliver service inside of that :D also, we are located somewhere in the middle of nowhere, just about 3 miles away from the next cell tower, so service is already pretty bad.

We used an older Cisco 2960 switch, provided by someones work ;) , 2 Ubiquiti Unifi APs and 1 Ubiquiti Nanobridge Loco for a PtP link to my house, where the internet connect is located.
Because no one wanted to be responsible for any illegal stuff done with it, I installed a Sophos UTM and a pfsense on my home server (HP ML310e Gen8).
Why two firewalls?
There was one thing, the internet connection is my private connection. So they share it with me. Since I didn't want them to use my slow 6Mbit for their own, I had to establish some traffic shaping, but also wanted to have an own Wifi in there, which is not slowed down by a shaper and controlled by a content filter.
That was not possible with pfsense alone, so pfsense is there for the management VLAN and for my unfiltered unshaped VLAN, and Sophos is shaping and filtering the "public" VLAN to 1.2Mbit down and 128kbit up with filtering on p0rn, drugs, illegal downloads and such. That was quite easy to do with ESXi and the nanobridges :)

The switch (Cisco 2960) and all 3 PoE injectors in a 19" closet custom built by a carpenter in town ;) not quite professional, but it works and it fits in its space like it should.
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yellow is AP w/o power, red is AP after PoE injector
pink is Nanobridge w/o power, orange NB after PoE injector
 
You do know that that is almost guaranteed to be against your ISPs ToS? Most ISPs don't allow "reselling" even if it is provided for free.
 
/usr/home said:
You do know that that is almost guaranteed to be against your ISPs ToS? Most ISPs don't allow "reselling" even if it is provided for free.
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You know I think that is the only rule in my ISPs TOS that I haven't broken....
 
/usr/home said:
You do know that that is almost guaranteed to be against your ISPs ToS? Most ISPs don't allow "reselling" even if it is provided for free.
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He is just providing wireless outside of this house, the coverage area just happens to include the fire house and town hall. ;)
 
Cut those zip ties off the cables and put some Velcro on.

I like the nobility of your idea but Jesus Christ why can't the muni provide their own internet circuit?
 
It's in Germany (so no Comcast for me ;) ) and my provider doesn't allow reselling as in reselling for money but they don't clearly say it's against their TOS to share it without fee. Since I work for my ISP, I asked some people, that should know about it ;)

Why no own circuit down there? It's a small village/township/whatever, which logically belongs to another bigger city, that would have to pay for it, and since there's never been any telephone circuit, they'd also have to pay for the last 50 meters of circuit and digging. So we decided to spend some money on our own and create this solution.

And zip ties...one thing I learned: zip ties and duct tape are what's keeping our world sticking together :D it's not as nice as it could be, but nobody will ever see it besides me. There's a solid front door and only one key exists ;)
 
shadynet said:
And zip ties...one thing I learned: zip ties and duct tape are what's keeping our world sticking together :D it's not as nice as it could be, but nobody will ever see it besides me. There's a solid front door and only one key exists ;)
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Oh yes, I have a Ubiquiti Rocket with an omni antenna on it that is mounted to the top of one of my 110' towers with a set of zip ties. Zip ties and duct tape are an important part of every network.

The problem with using zip ties to neaten up cables like you have, is that cables tend to need to be moved, and then you have to cut and re-tie them. Velcro ties are pretty cheap (I get 4x rolls of 50 ties to $8 on Amazon), they wont cut into the cable, and can be easily moved.
 
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Sun X4170 2x X5570 24Gb DDR3 2x 146Gb 10k RAID1 2x 120Gb EVO RAID0
Sun X4170 2x X5570 24Gb DDR3 6x 146Gb 10k RAID6
Sun X4170 2x X5570 24Gb DDR3 6x 146Gb 10k RAID6
Sun X4600 M2 8x Opteron 8389 64Gb DDR2 2x 120Gb Intel 330 RAID1 2x 80Gb 10k RAID1

EonStor A16F-G1A2 16x 1Tb Seagate 7200.11/7200.12 drives RAID5 + hot spare
EonStor A24F-R222416x 2Tb WD Green WD20EADS (old school, TLER disabled, these drives just won't die, 8x empty slots in this chassis)
EonStor A24F-R2224 24x 2Tb Hitachi UltraStar 2x 12 disk RAID6
EonStor A24F-R2224 24x 2Tb Hitachi UltraStar 2x 12 disk RAID6
 
FLECOM said:
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from top to bottom

Sun X4170 2x X5570 24Gb DDR3 2x 146Gb 10k RAID1 2x 120Gb EVO RAID0
Sun X4170 2x X5570 24Gb DDR3 6x 146Gb 10k RAID6
Sun X4170 2x X5570 24Gb DDR3 6x 146Gb 10k RAID6
Sun X4600 M2 8x Opteron 8389 64Gb DDR2 2x 120Gb Intel 330 RAID1 2x 80Gb 10k RAID1

EonStor A16F-G1A2 16x 1Tb Seagate 7200.11/7200.12 drives RAID5 + hot spare
EonStor A24F-R222416x 2Tb WD Green WD20EADS (old school, TLER disabled, these drives just won't die, 8x empty slots in this chassis)
EonStor A24F-R2224 24x 2Tb Hitachi UltraStar 2x 12 disk RAID6
EonStor A24F-R2224 24x 2Tb Hitachi UltraStar 2x 12 disk RAID6
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So is this where all our "Amazon Prime Photos" will be stored, right?
 
wizdum said:
Oh yes, I have a Ubiquiti Rocket with an omni antenna on it that is mounted to the top of one of my 110' towers with a set of zip ties. Zip ties and duct tape are an important part of every network.
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I hope you used the right zip ties. At work we have two kinds: black ones that are Uv Resistant, and the white kind that get brittle and crack over time in the sun.
 
unholythree said:
I hope you used the right zip ties. At work we have two kinds: black ones that are Uv Resistant, and the white kind that get brittle and crack over time in the sun.
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Yep, I use only high quality zip ties and duct tape. They're the same kind that we use for the wires, so they have to be UV resistant.
 
I also use only the highest quality chewing gum, and sometimes the 'limited edition' Elmers Glue.
It's just difficult for me to not try to eat the glue, it's so delicious. ;)
 
I had a Dell Optiplex 760 laying around Running EXSi 5.5. Installed 3 VMs. Specs: Intel Xeon E3110 3GHz 8GB RAM 250 GB HDD ( I might add an external Drive)

Each VM has 3 GB RAM, 1 virtual CPU and 2 cores.

Windows 2008 R2 Standard Running Exchange 40GB for OS 30GB for Mail Boxes
Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise DC 40GB OS
Sophos 9.2 UTM Home Edition 40 GB


150GB Total Used. 100GB Free







 
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