Show us your before and after pictures after you have replaced something with new Meraki kit.
I just spent the whole weekend ripping out 500 ports of switching in a factory and putting in all new Meraki kit. These pictures are one of the four main wiring cabinets - before and after the job was done.
Here's one of my own "before and after" stories.
Ok, just kidding, stretched the truth a little, but you get the idea. 🙂
Here is another before and after. In this case, the customer said thay wanted to be able to "see" where the patched ports plugged into the switch, without having to riffle through the cabling.
After a recent set of installs before and afters
Found the last of the three cabs we did on that install
It really shouldn't be. But tidying cabs is rather therapeutic I find!
We're seemingly on a roll here doing cabs at the moment so like a proud father I thought i'd throw up another
Still on the lookout for some slimline cat6a patch cabling if anyone knows of a good vendor?
Here you go, one from yesterday. Swapped out old cisco's for Meraki MS225.
Hardly knew what I was doing...my first real tear out and try to clean up...turned out better than I thought it would, though!
Here's my before and after
@BHC_RESORTS wrote:
@AdamS wrote:Very nice shot, but may I suggest the framing would be better with some MS425's under that ;-).
Looks like an HP 5406zl. One of my favorite switch chassis! Now if there was a Meraki switch chassis....wow would that be legit!
5406R without a second management module. I too really like this model and second the request for a Meraki chassis switch.
I do have some MS425's as well since @AdamS mentioned it...
This morning :
Replaced old Alcatel switch to brand new Meraki MS120 at customer remote bureau. 399 sites to go !
Removed a fortinet + cisco + aerohive disaster and replaced it with the MX84 + MR42 AP's + Cisco SG300.
Cable cleanup and cabinet rearrangement did most of the cosmetical cleanup 😉
Hi
Is that the 3M turquoise Ethernet cable that you are using, it looks good as does the other colour with it, pale lavender?
I have to build a small rack from scratch that will be photographed and used in explanations, so it will really have to look the business.
The turquoise colour works well with metallic objects - see the Mecedes Petronas F1 car, and your other colour choice is equally suited to a metallic environment.
I'd use Aston Martin's AppleTree Green if I could find cables that colour (photographs are unreliable, however)
Cheers
@uberseehandel
Hi,
We used :
https://www.tridis.be/en/patch-cable-u-utp-category-6-0-15m-violet-utp-snagless
and
https://www.tridis.be/en/patch-cable-u-utp-category-6-0-15m-green
We always use this with a 48-ports switch in combination with 2 x 24 patchpanel around it.
See also this one (new rack - no before and after with an MX65).
That looks excellent. Thank you for the URLs for the cables.
I have a feeling my photogenic rack is going to end up more expensive than a lot of the kit in it . . . ;-[])
@uberseehandel
Just for fun another cleanup 🙂
Switches and router are from Cisco but Wifi is Meraki.
@KrisVerdonckwrote:It was handmade to put the rack on top of it but then we found a much better stand between the junk 🙂
Well the wine was hand made -
@uberseehandel
One of our branch offices went from 60 desks down to a new office with just 9 when the lease was up. Now a little cramped, with the wall rack sitting in the kitchen of the office. Didn't get a picture of it after finalizing the wiring and a little cleanup.
Before: 6 old unstacked Netgear switches:
After: 4 MS120-48LP stacked
Any volunteers to help with this one? I have a couple dozen to clean up by July. 🙂
Cleanup time with a client who we switched to a fullstack.
Since the rack was in the storage area of the café it got a bit forgotten you can say...
Before:
After:
Also replaced the old server room rack.
Old:
New :
Cheers,
Ben
This was a new install for one of our DatacenterS. Front of rack and back of rack.
Following up on my Spring Cleaning contest entry: here are the before and after pictures for a different kind of Meraki gear - SWAG! I finally got my own cupboard and made a sign. (No, I won't reveal the inside of the cupboard! But it is a thing of organized beauty, I assure you).
Had to tear out the punch panels in this room. In a few weeks I'm going to have to put it back together. Oh Joy!!!
New Engineering work space, wired up and ready to go.
Another recent deployment. These are the before and after pictures for one of the cabinets that was part of a much larger refresh.
The world of onsite work has been at a stop, but things carry on. Some home configuration and then deployed in situ!
Another long day doing another Cisco Meraki deployment.
Before hand with 10 network devices.
Replaced with 5 new Meraki devices.
First two pictures are some work I did at a family members apartment, to clean up a terrible pre-installation. Ethernet cables ran through the apartment which was awesome, they just never bothered to terminate them lol. The after photo gives you the general final product of what I ended up with.
As for the office, I don't have a before photo, so you'll have to just image a big cable nest of chaos. This photo here is how I standardize things at work for all the IDF locations.
24 port patch panel
48 port switch
48 port patch panel
...rinse repeat
This is the cleanest solution and I hate doing it any other way 😃
Thanks guys ^_^
I actually have a better before and after photo below.
Here is the before.
Here is the after. It's a little hard to install, but it really helps with the cable management and dust collection.
Not as big a job as some, but this was kind of fun.
I do wonder how to deal with the MS120/250 24 port switches. Have not seen a patch panel that is only on the right.
These are 2 Racks recently done bij me, april 2024, i used Unifi slim Patchcables CAT6:
