Greetings everyone,
my last week of work has started and I’m having mixed feelings about my leave. On one hand I will be glad to be back in Germany seeing family and friends again and grateful to sleep in my own bed again. On the other hand I’m a little sad to leave my work placement especially since I started to look into different projects I won’t be able to see completion.
The last two days, that’s Monday and Tuesday, I spent at our Warehouse at Heron Road where we had to supervise the installation of the new hardware from the ISP because Heron Road recently got an upgrade in the line speeds which made other hardware a necessity. Furthermore Graham and I were asked to exchange the existing small cabinet for a bigger one, which meant to move all hardware, active and passive, from one cabinet to the other.
The first problem we encountered were the two Ethernet patch panels because the cables were wired in a way which made it impossible to take out without cutting the attached network cables and that meant we had to rewire the panels again. And of course we managed to, accidentally, destroy half of the fiber connections while taking out the fiber patch panel, which meant we had to get a contractor to splice the connections anew.
After we had everything out of the cabinet we wanted to switch the small cabinet with the bigger one, which was about 3x times the size of the old one. I should mention that the cabinet is standing under a stair and we had maybe 2.10m of max. height while the new cabinet is 2m high and on the edge of the stairs was a small bar, which supported the stairs, under which the cabinet had to go through with maybe 1cm of air.
Well we got the cabinet in without any problems after the fits attempt facing the same direction the old cabinet did and realized, as it is deeper, we couldn’t open the door properly, so we decided to turn the cabinet by 90°. As we were turning the cabinet the cabinet got stuck on the bars and refused to move even one inch and it took us around 30 minutes and a lot of physical violence, which was my part, to get free again and into the correct situation, we even had to involve the poor fellow from the ISPs subcontractor.
Once the Cabinet was in place the ISP subcontractor installed the new hardware, tested the internet connection and left. Graham and I still had to rewire the Ethernet patch panels and to install the hardware again.
After we were done the day was over.
On Tuesday had to go back to back to Heron Road to supervise the contractors tasked with repairing the fiber connections and we had to find out why the IP telephones didn’t get an IP address over DHCP, which turned out to be a small misconfiguration on the ISP router. This again took most of our day and we only got up to Cultra to report on the situation.
It was a produktoive start into the last week and I will report on the rest of this week later. Have a nice week!
Yours sincerely,
Tobias
P.S
Kinda scary/exciting scientific „news“ of the day:
Two Rats Communicate Brain to Brain
the scientific paper on the topic:
https://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130228/srep01319/full/srep01319.html