To start off, yes I am the CG. The small phone systems at our 6 locations where put in my charge. The system posted below was in place before I was hired a few years ago. I've put off cleaning it up for a few years now. frown

Where do you even start? (sorry for the blurry pic, cellphone camera not so good in low light)

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I have since installed 5 Avaya systems at our newer locations. At those locations we did use patch panels and CAT5 patch cords. The phone wiring was also done to the same specs as the LAN for eventual move over to VoIP phones.

I know most of this is frowned upon for a phone system but it looks nice and clean, works fine for us, and we have not had a single issue stemming from it.

What we have had issues with is the mess of the system above. All of the 66 blocks are cracked in multiple places and basically falling apart. Phones short out if you blow on the wiring too hard. Finding or moving extensions is basically impossible as none of incoming pairs where marked or labeled in any way.

The location previously had a SW Bell system in place of the Avaya. It had a Amphenol(sp?) connector with all the pairs going to the 66 blocks. The majority of that mess appeared when the phone installer phased the Avaya system in. (which was done during the day, when all the phones where being used!)

What would you do to clean it up? I was going to go the patch panel route, but I don't believe most of the station lines are long enough to properly do a patch panel.