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Kelpy at the Core


Our two core routers swim amid a sea of kelp (cat5e) patch cables.
Two core routers buried in patchesLarge
Two core routers buried in patchesLarge

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11 Responses to “Kelpy at the Core”
  1. Robert Says:

    I’m hoping those routers aren’t D-Link ;-)

  2. santos Says:

    Most likely Cisco, since Cisco pwnz… what is wrong with D-Link? Don’t be hating on D-Link, they make a very fine product line. I don’t think it all matters since it is just patch links, You can’t really find a bad one of those. I mean, it is the difference in getting a home wall jack and an industrial quality wall jack, the home one will work just fine, but the industrial will take more of a beating. Routers need to be Cisco, hands down.

  3. shoo Says:

    True dat, double true!

  4. Larry Gilbert Says:

    Kelp? Looks more like H.R. Giger to me.

  5. Chris Meller Says:

    So who’s going to tell us what each of those wires goes to? :)

    At least tell us what each of those 4 (5?) fiber lines come in are…

  6. Will Says:

    The Fiber lines are probably between core01 and core02 and switches maybe to some uplink providers too.

    i feel bad for the person who had to crimp all those cables, hope they bought the Fiber cables pre-crimped.

  7. joe.mezzanini Says:

    More pics please !!

  8. Larry Gilbert Says:

    Ahh, but crimping cables is a worthy activity. Builds character!

  9. djsynthetik Says:

    That is beautiful.

    (shows how much of a geek I am)

    thinking that patch cables and routers, and switches are beautiful.

  10. ed w Says:

    and what a beautiful sight it is…the lovely rsms swimming in cat5e :D

  11. Stein Ericsson Says:

    They are cisco devices. Cat 6000 switches to be exact, but why in the world wouldn’t they have dual supervisor modules. Looks like an impending outage to me!!