It's the first day of spring! Share your spring cleaning pictures for a chance to win!

CarolineS
Community Manager

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It's the first day of spring! 🌷🌼 ☀️ 🌸 🐣 

 

(Well, in the Northern Hemisphere, at least, it's the first day of spring! Never fear, though—you can enter this contest even if it's your first day of fall. 🍂 🍁 )

 

Spring is a time for growth, rebirth, renewal, and... cleaning out the wiring closet?

 

In this contest, inspired by the Before and After Pictures thread, we invite you to share pictures of your spring cleaning efforts (or just the things you wish you had time to tidy up!).

 

How to enter

Post your picture(s) in a comment on this blog post by Friday, March 23 at 10am Pacific. We'll then pick three entries at random to win a Meraki Chia Pet. (Yes, we really have Meraki-shaped Chia Pets. Sing it with me: Ch-ch-ch-Chia!)

 

Good luck! 

 

UPDATE: The contest has closed and the winners have been announced!  Thanks to EVERYONE who shared their amazing photos.

  

 

The fine print:

 

 

34 Comments
CarolineS
Community Manager

I'll start! My spring cleaning project is to organize and put away these boxes full of swag! (also, perhaps I should make a sign to replace the pink sticky note that says "Sign to come" 😛)

 

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iHoody
Just browsing

We just got our Spring cleaning out of the way - before hand every tenant in the building was a blue patch cable - now we have color coded per tenant!Before.JPGAfter.JPG

CBCase
Just browsing

So this was a project our IT team completed. The complete overhaul of our US sites. This is just one example of many overhauls the department have completed globally (Which is still ongoing), all using Meraki equipment

 

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Kevins
Here to help

spring clean up.

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Babak
New here

this has to be the one Smiley LOL

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and after :

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 btw today is Persian new year, Happy New Year 😄

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SCooney
New here

Spring Cleaning in Our Chinese Factory:

 

Rip Out the left, install the right.

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WadeAlsup
A model citizen

office.jpgHoping to get this mess cleaned up one of these days...

Adam
Kind of a big deal

Here was one I did a year or so ago.

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Coupe2112
Getting noticed

My spring cleaning project began with a basement flood and ended with additional shelving, an organized workshop and a large box of water soaked cardboard heading to recycling...

 

 

 

 
 

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NeroConsulting
Conversationalist

Let's do this!

 

BEFORE (CISCO ASA with a mess) vs. AFTER (Cisco Meraki MX84 with a cleaner mess)

 

DarrenOC
Kind of a big deal

Some before and after shots.  Big tidy up across 6 hub rooms.  100+ switches replaced with MerakiSome before and after shots. Big tidy up across 6 hub rooms. 100+ switches replaced with Meraki

SamIam
New here

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TMRoberts
Getting noticed

Oh we had some fun one's ... we upgraded from old HP and NetGear switches in data closet to Meraki MS-320-48 w/PoE and also moved the data center from 1 (42U) & 1/2 (25U) racks of scrambled cable to one slightly larger (45U) with cable management.

 

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DandS_Dave
Just browsing

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LeeH
Comes here often

Before then After (we installed our new Meraki equipment and are very happy!)

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maintrain
Here to help

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PatrickReid
Conversationalist

Couple here

 

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Erik
Here to help

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DT
New here

Before and After last nights work...  A much needed cable tidy up and implementation of MS225's with QoS etc adding to the existing MX84 and MR34's Smiley Very Happy

 

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EvanC
Comes here often

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rafalkraska
Comes here often

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PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal

I would like to nominate @KrisVerdonck rom this thread:

https://community.meraki.com/t5/Off-the-Stack/Before-and-After-Pictures/m-p/15027/highlight/true#M50...

 

I'm making this nomination not because it was tidy - but because the patch lead colour was selected not for purpose but fashion.

Elron
New here

Office cleanup from my last rollout

 

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CarolineS
Community Manager

@PhilipDAth wrote:

I would like to nominate @KrisVerdonck rom this thread: https://community.meraki.com/t5/Off-the-Stack/Before-and-After-Pictures/m-p/15027/highlight/true#M50...

I'm thinking I'll include everyone who posted on that thread in the Chia Pet raffle too!

CarolineS
Community Manager

Oh, wow - ya'll - I've just learned about https://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn/ (safe for work, promise!) and https://www.reddit.com/r/cablegore/. If you liked this thread.... check those out!! 

Craig_A
New here

AhhhhhAhhhhh

DeeS
New here

The timing of this competition is very apt, as we are just carrying out our Big Spring Clean.

Our skip full of garbage ready to collectOur skip full of garbage ready to collectAnd a tidy comms room! :)And a tidy comms room! 🙂

BlakeRichardson
Kind of a big deal

Does spring cleaning of the L3 kind count Smiley Tongue I haven't had time to do any physical spring cleaning this year!

CarolineS
Community Manager

@BlakeRichardson - we are quite flexible in our interpretation of spring cleaning :-). You can also post pictures of the disasters that NEED spring cleaning, even if they're not yet clean!

DandS_Dave
Just browsing

 

A before and after of my office space. That floor was nasty!

George_Thomas
Conversationalist

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jared_f
Kind of a big deal

I would post photos, but, ironically, everything has gotten more messy since the year began! 

 

The photos are fabulous here. The end results are fantastic. Kudos to all.

MikeK2
New here

Just put some finishing touches on today.  Photos don't quite do this justice but we were happy to cough up this power hairball!

 

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alyssafriesen
Here to help

Sorry for the bad rotation, but here are some of my cleaned up cords! Shoe holders work really great, plus you can use wet-erase markers to label them easily and cheaply.

 

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