[CONTEST CLOSED]It’s that time of year again 🧹🧼🧽 — share your spring cleaning pictures....

[MeredithW]

UPDATE: this contest has ended. Thanks everyone for all the super satisfying spring cleaning pics! Our three randomly selected winners are: @Brash, @zmann7, and @dlbircher. Congrats!   

Spring has sprung here at Meraki HQ and that means it’s time to kick off our yearly Spring Cleaning Challenge! 

The rules are simple: take a photo of your spring cleaning project and share it with us for a chance to win swag. We’d love to see before and after photos, but simply an after photo that you’re particularly proud of or an anxiety-inducing, yet aspirational before photo will do!

For a little inspiration, below is one of our favorites from last year courtesy of @TheShow: 

How to enter

Submit your photo(s) in a comment on this blog post before 11 a.m. PDT on Tuesday, April 5th (04/05/2022). We'll then pick three entries at random to win a Meraki Soma Brew Bottle!

The fine print:

• Drawing will be held on Tuesday, April 5th  at 11am PDT
• One entry per community member
• Full terms, conditions, and eligibility information

[Inderdeep]

@MeredithW : awesome !

[Brash]

Yes! So ready to see some aesthetically pleasing cabling!

Unfortunately I forgot to take a before shot but was pretty happy with this. (Featuring twist ties as I was out of Velcro strips)

 

[TheShow]

I feel more purple coming on, and thanks @MeredithW for the shout out.

[CptnCrnch]

Awesome price here, unfortunately I'm unable to participate 😞

Go guys, get that thing! 👍

[jinzing]

Does it have to be Meraki gear or can it be other Cisco gear?

[MerryAki]

I got rid of my old Access Points:

 

and replaced them with those beufiful guys:

(MR33/42/46, but the next possible cleaning will be removing of non WiFi 6 APs (MRx3 etc.))

I hope, that there will be beautiful WiFi 6e APs soon. I doubt that the MR57 was the first and only one. 🙂 hope to see more in the future.

• Another thing I did (in my apartment) was to fix cabling:

I might change it at some point again, there are Cat6/7 cables utilizing Caps with a color code, but those are okay right now.

[zmann7]

 BEFORE                                         AFTER  

 

[PippenPambu]

[Bouza]

Not sure if it has to be Meraki cleanup's only, but this is the only Meraki one I have. Small but satisfying.

• Extended out the bottom rack
• Add patch panel and terminate all loose wires
• Removed unused switch
• Mounted firewalls in rack
• Replaced power strip with PDU
• Separated wall mount jacks from the rack
• Eliminated fiber-to-ethernet adaptor and patched wan uplink directly to switch
• All new patch cables color coded by function
  • Blue (access port)
  • white (trunk port)
  • yellow (WAN)
• Cable management with lacing bars and velcro
• Labeled all devices. (didn't have a cable labeler at my disposal)

Before:

Before

After:
After (side view)

After (front view)
After (front view)

[AroF]

It was a lot of fun

[alemabrahao]

It's my new data center 🙂

[DiegoGutierrezd]

Hello friends! 

We are Teleinter from Guadalajara ,México. My teammate just sent me this pictures earlier this month from a service and i want to share it with you guys!

Happy spring cleaning! 

Diego.

[Hircasa]

Our new Site.

[Paul_Benton]

Before:

Inherited hairy monster

After:

hair cut and wash so we can see that nice equipment 

 

[dlbircher]

Had to replace a 7 switch stack underneath this mess so figured it was a good time to clean it up. 

 

 

[AnilPatil]

Before

 

After

 

[Raju83]

Awesome.

Before

After

[Alex67]

Amazing 😊

Before :

After :

But where is the WIFI ????

[Hugohmygod]

Oooh IT Dream !! 😍

Before :

After : 

[RAJ_ROX]

Before

After

[matlj]

Hi,

Thanks for the contest, this is my contribution: 

BeforeAfter

[horn_t20]

Old Cabinet - No room to AddNew 2 post & equipment w/ clean up

Clean up work to remove wall mounted rack and install a 2 post rack to allow for additional growth to add equipment as well as update our switches from older ones to newer ones. 

[Skytel_Dan]

This one took a couple days!!

[gaajjovi]

The art!

[Dave]

Replaced an ancient UPS with two units and all the power cabling in the rack. 

Most of what was removed pictured. 

After

[MeredithW]

@jinzing you can show any networking cleaning project, Cisco products included!

[F3rn4nd09007]

A very fun activity, at the end I was very surprised by the result, I am happy.

BeforeAfter

[FatihSenel]

Hi, Amazing 🙂

BeforAfter

[Yeshwanth]

Before & AfterClose view

[JonP]

Before and after. A marathon exercise by my colleague @CameronS and I.

Before.....After

Some more glamour shots from another cab:

Work in progress!Wireless cablesNot the neatest!

[Hemi-IT]

[Hemi-IT]

Everything was in a closet on a shelf. Wires everywhere. What a mess. After we purchased the 2 Cisco Meraki switches I organized the wires and labeled everything. So much easier to diagnose and fix an issue quickly

[F3rn4nd09007]

BeforeAfter

[EJN]

Recently ran Cat6 cables for all Meraki APs. If you see yellow, you know it's Cat6 and WiFi/AP related.

[Inderdeep]

Here you go the pics , More of Cisco SDA+SDWAN and Meraki Setup 💚

[OVERKILL]

Not the final photo, but started colour coding with the proper length cables the links at a client's site (everything was blue, EVERYTHING). Orange are uplinks, purple is voice, red is a managed service. The trendnet is no longer there. Not shown is the stack of 2960S's also colour coded. 

 

 

[mdo]

That brings at least +5dB

[van604]

upgraded from vintage cisco switches to meraki

forgot to take a before cause i just wanted to jump in and get that off that old gear

[SSAY-AXS]

Some Meraki switches, it's a new install and it's still clean, we have a hundred sites

[JenPrid]

HaHA!!!  I thought you were wanting a pic of my desk!  Now that would be a Spring Cleaning accomplishment! 😂🤣

[CameronS]

A lovely clean-up of the spaghetti monster

BeforeAfter

[Oscar_Espinoza]

BeforeAfter

[MarcP]

@Oscar_Espinoza 

Done for today 🙂

[SalvationArmy]

 

 

[Naveed]

[danbarker]

Before/After

[AMorrison]

We got rid of some Allied Telesys tat (switches) and went the full Meraki stack in I building we just took over.

[MeredithW]

UPDATE: this contest has ended. Thanks everyone for all the super satisfying spring cleaning pics! Our three randomly selected winners are: @Brash, @zmann7, and @dlbircher. Congrats!