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    1. Design Install

    Old school: Cabling photos

    Oct. 29, 2021
    Old school technology still drives the bus at many VDV and data sites.
    Matt Vincent
    Pixabay / Andrew_Poynton
    A classic VW bus. Cabling contractors could theoretically use. Wouldn't that be a daisy?
    A classic VW bus. Cabling contractors could theoretically use. Wouldn't that be a daisy?

    As seen in abundance on social media at Reddit's sub-group for classic cabling photos, great on-site tradecraft in information and technology communications technology (ICT) is like a lot of classic things with legacies that never go out of style, and persist throughout the decades. Old school technology still drives the bus and pays the bills in many cases.

    Old School Cabling $$$ QUOTE:

    Pixabay / jplenio
    Bonus media: The original Spanning Tree Protocol? The very Old School system here pictured is suspiciously indistinguishable from a classic contemporary 'cable fail' photo bomb. Go figure!
    Bonus media: The original Spanning Tree Protocol? The very Old School system here pictured is suspiciously indistinguishable from a classic contemporary 'cable fail' photo bomb. Go figure!

    "As the size of networks grew during the last decade, we saw a shift from classical three-tier network architectures to a flatter and wider spine-and-leaf architecture. With its fully meshed connectivity approach, spine-and-leaf architecture provided us the predictable high-speed network performance we were craving and also the reliability within our network switch fabric. However, along with its advantages, spine-and-leaf architecture presents certain challenges in terms of structured cabling." -- Mustafa Keskin, Corning Optical Communications

    Reddit/Cableporn
    Old1

    "Just a little project with old school punch down patch panels." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP [orig. poster]: u/C4ServicesLLC

    Reddit/Cableporn
    Old2

    "Cabinet in tobacco industry." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP: u/skunkyjunky69

    Reddit/Cableporn
    Old3

    "Not bad for a day’s work! Data cabling." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP: u/MPADVISORY

    Reddit/Cableporn
    Old4

    "Data cabling. EMC XIO 6 Brick 20TB system built completely from spare parts at my work. It’s a 6 brick system so 6 x 20TB. It has 150qty 800GB SSDs. We have much smaller systems with more capacity but EMC-XIO likes to keep it complicated. 12qty controllers, 6qty UPS and 2qty Infiniband switches, in addition to the drives. Every thing we work on is long in the tooth. You’d be surprised how many companies are still running old systems, and we work with maintenance companies providing the old hardware spares they need." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP: u/TrueBlue_913

    Reddit/Cableporn
    Old5

    "(103) Cat 6 cable closet terminations." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP: u/Th3_KRACKEN

    Reddit/Cableporn
    Old6

    "1906, Georgetown Steam Plant." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP: u/nuje_nuje

    Send your Must-See Cabling Photos to [email protected].

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