09-23-2009, 03:50 PM
It was not THAT bad, yet when I was hired at one company, they could not even reach the power switch behind all of the cabling. Yes, you heard that right - the cables were layered in some areas 5" deep IN FRONT of the racks.
:nono:
Other than the obvious fire hazard of no airflow around some servers, instead of a 1' or 3' cable (which would have been the perfect lengths) they put 15' or 25' cables (the manager said that is all they had to use) and looped them around. I seem to recall 350 smaller patch cables ordered and pulling out hundreds and hundreds of excess feet of cable to get it tidied up.