May 20th 2006

Project:

Upgrade all floor switching equipment and install wireless on Floors 1 & 6 as well as 1 AP per floor during the annual data center shutdown (Which is generally for Fire, UPS, Generator, Cooling Maintenance) all while 2 new 10 Ton A/C units are being added to the DC to make the total cooling capacity 100 tons and a crane lifts the heat exchangers to the roof.

Before the Floor Switch Upgrade Project Spaghetti Vermicelli Fettuccini More Cable Pasta And More Someone once thought this was a good idea down with plastic cable ties!!! Can you see the equipment One of the best pre conversion floors Nuts to find a bad cable Dead equipment couldn't be removed because of the cables Wow.. More.. More Worse yet.. the IS Floor

After the Floor Switch Upgrade Project How many devices we removed One of 14 Closets we upgraded Looking into the floor closet from the hallway In June we are redoing the core.. so this is temporary $80K worth of Cisco on the Floor This equipment runs and routes the floors LAN/WAN row in the Data Center