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Way back in August I said I would post some pictures of my cabling lab "next week." Well, I'm a little late. I had some changes I wanted to make, and I wanted to wait until I was finished and then post the updated pictures. Of course I'm never really finished changing things around, so I'll just post the pictures I have now.

Just for some background, I teach the structured cabling course for the Network and Telecommunications program at our local college. This is based on curriculum developed by Panduit and delivered through the Cisco Network Academy Program. For those who recall Merritt's <a href="https://www.sundance-communications.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?/ubb/get_topic/f/1/t/001606.html">post back in August</a>, this is a very similar course.

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Where the ladders are leaning against the wall I've actually added a 4 post rack to house some of the active equipment for our program. Our BCM will move to this rack. The two racks you see will be entirely for the students to work with.

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The shelves are gone, and I'll be putting plywood on that wall in their place. There is also another 4 post rack against this wall for the students to use.

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Students work in three groups, and each group has a plywood backboard, a false wall for the workstation area, and a rack. I did have an NEC Mark II on the floor below the Onyx and Norstar. The power supply died and it seemed to take the CPU card with it. Can't say I'll miss it though.

I have a lot of changes I'm still planning to make, so I'm interested to hear what everyone has to say.

Clinton.

Awesome pictures! :thumb:

What's the 3/4" copper pipe and the compressed air pressure regulator for?

-Hal

Looks nice...take more pics!

Very neat, I think I might want to take your course! :thumb:

Hal,..... that's a bandwidth regulator on their internet pipe.

Hal, I honestly have no idea what that pipe was for. The college had it in their budget to lay a new floor in the room for me, but removing that pipe didn't fit in the budget. So I'm stuck with it for now. There's also an 8" hole in the floor behind the door that wasn't in the budget to fix.

that's a bandwidth regulator on their internet pipe.

Ahh, must be from that MCNE course.

I suppose you could teach them how to install ground clamps on it using the right wire (NOT doubled-up CAT5). That's something I find they never get right.

-Hal

That's a good one, I'm going to use that the next time someone asks me.

That's a nice lab Clinton, What a cool project! :thumb: