So recently I went out to a customer location to install a PoE switch and set up just over a dozen VoIP phones. They already had all of the wiring in place, and a rack installed.
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| BEFORE |
They also already had one switch connected to some of the ports at the location, but I had to install a seperate PoE switch and patch everything together, so that they could take down the phone network without effecting any of the other devices connected to the network.
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| BEFORE wide angle |
The existing network was not the biggest mess that I have ever seen, but for the amount of stuff that was actually connected, and the fact that the rack had wire management rails installed it was not very neat either.
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AFTER
Used 3 ft. patch cords to connect everything up. |
Regardless I did my best to mount my new switch and route the patch cords as neatly as possible.
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AFTER wide angle
Only blue patch cords are what I installed,
everything else was already existing. |
That's about it. My responsibility lied in installing and maintaining the patch cords and switch for the VoIP phones, as well as installing the VoIP phones. I hold no responsibility of the overall network, they have their own IT person that handles that, which is why I did not want to touch any of the messy network wiring.
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| Close up of PoE switch. |
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