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Biggest waste of a network switch ever. I've been meaning to take a pic of this for months but they locked the room it's in before I had a chance and only recently found it unlocked ?.

 

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So this is the businesses WAN. The fiber line is coming from either the street or a modem located in another building. That blue cable goes to their router's WAN interface in another room.

 

This switch is a CISCO Catalyst 2960-X series switch (48FPD-L it looks to be specifically). Of course much of this equipment today can be bought second hand off eBay for cheap but brand new these switches are expensive. $2,000+ from the online retailers that I've seen, and they're using it as a f***ing media converter. You can buy a 1Gbit media converter for ~$15.

 

The stupid things businesses do sometimes. It blows my mind.

 

Anybody have any similar stories to share of poorly put together setups?

  1. leadeater

    leadeater

    They aren't even rack mounted!

  2. Gegger
  3. Windows7ge

    Windows7ge

    Oh you want rack-mounted?

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    You can see the exact spot where the professional stopped and in-house began.

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