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It's been a while since I have had to go into the trenches and physically work with gear. At my last job, I had a field technician that traveled all over the US so that I didn't have to. However, I was asked to come in and do a job in Denver and I obliged. This is just a couple of the several hundred racks that are in this facility. The Internet is a big flat network, but every single one of those cables does something to support it. The blue cables are standard Ethernet cables like you would find in your own house. The yellow and orange cables are fiber optic cables.
Silicon Graphics still in use.
On my way to Hungary a friend invited me to see his company's offices.
An anonymous source submitted these to me as an example of how NOT to cool a machine room.
Yes, that is a box fan zip tied to a cable ladder, hanging under a cooling duct.
Fail.
There's also a UPS system to the right that you can't see. They've never had to run on backup power and only have had a small brownout in the last 2.5 years (which the system handled without a hitch).