Today, I did some work on next year's budget. Money is going to be tighter than last year! I then worked on one of the network racks in the technology department - there are many more ports patched than have computers on the other end. To make the network more secure (and prevent anyone making a loop), I've disconnected any ports that aren't being used. Lots of the ports had also been patched with 2m or longer cables, meaning the cabinet was a mess of tangled cables. I stripped it all out and rewired it with short patch leads....this meant I could put the doors back on AND close them. I managed to pull 3x 24 port switches out of the cabinet!
In the adjacent IT room, there are many ports on the wall which are marked as damaged. I've been round and tested them. Many work fine, and the others just needed re-terminating with a new face plate. This means we can get rid of the crappy desktop switches that add another hop on to the network (this is a good thing).
Finally pulled out the 10base2 cabling in this room, with the user ports being blanked off.
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