Technical debt? Or just bored?

Since the world has gone to complete lockdown, I found myself wanting to correct some technical debt in my lab (clean up cabling, etc). However, because of the lockdown, amazon took its' sweet time delivering the cool Monoprice slim cat6 cables. I finally got everything I need, and installed it today. These cables are awesome!

Instead of having a bunch of heavy cat6a cables poking out of a brushstrip, I created a patch panel on each end of the rack, and short patch cables to the switches. Can't do much about the DAC cables, but removing the cat6 cables and using the patches really cleaned it up. I also replaced the 16 port secondary management switch with a small Ubiquiti 5 port POE switch and put it in the back.

Take a look and see if you agree:

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AFTER

/finis