What IT guys do for spring break…

I’m borrowing a couple of pictures from the twitter account of our PC tech at Valley High School, Carl Sundermann @carlsunder.  Yesterday, Valley High School was closed for the day due to various construction outages (including power and network).  Carl worked with our network engineer Scott Crothers, to take the opportunity to clean up the spaghetti mess in our main wiring closet, just as we’ve done in other schools (see this post)  Here’s the before and after shots….

Before…..

After….

The final product is that a full rack of space was reclaimed.  Also, the shorter cables are so much easier to work through when troubleshooting an issue.

Cleaning up spaghetti

Spaghetti (noun):  technical term for the mess that exists in most computer wiring closets, which is a location in your building where all the computer cabling leads to.

This summer, we had plans to update/refresh much of the equipment in our elementary school wiring closets – which meant it was the right time to clean up the “spaghetti”.  In order to accomplish this, they removed all the existing patch cables and equipment, then added restructured the closets with the new gear  – and then used 6 inch cables for the final product. Kudos to our two district technicians, Spencer Van Haaften and Bryan Gray who updated all the elementary school wiring closets. The results not only look great, it will save future time when trouble shooting problems!

BEFORE At Jordan Creek Elementary	AFTER At Jordan Creek Elementary
BEFORE At Phenix Elem Childhood Center	AFTER At Phenix Elem Childhood Center