Network rack and patch panel clean-up
The rack nobody wants to open. We turn a tangle of unlabelled patch cords into something you can photograph, document and hand to the next person.
A messy rack is not just ugly. It is why the printer stopped working when someone unplugged "the wrong one", why the new switch took a day to install, and why every technician who visits bills an hour just to understand what is connected to what. A clean-up fixes all of that in a single visit.
We start by mapping what is there: every cable traced, every port identified, every device named. Then we re-terminate damaged or substandard ends, replace patch cords with correctly sized ones, add a patch panel if the building cabling is punched straight into a switch, install cable management, and label both ends of everything. Power gets the same treatment, with a proper UPS if the rack does not have one.
You receive a rack elevation diagram, a port map, and a photo set. Work is scheduled outside your busy hours and staged so that only one link is down at a time.
What's included
- Trace & mapEvery cable identified before anything is unplugged.
- Re-terminate & testDamaged, stretched or home-made cables replaced and certified.
- Patch panels & managementPanels, horizontal and vertical managers, correctly sized patch cords.
- LabellingBoth ends, machine-printed, matching the documentation.
- DocumentationRack elevation, port map and photos delivered as a PDF.
Common questions
Will the network go down during the clean-up?
Only one connection at a time, and we schedule the work when it matters least. For businesses that cannot tolerate any interruption we can stage it over two visits.
My cabling is punched straight into the switch. Is that a problem?
It works until something breaks, and then it is a problem. Moving building cabling onto a patch panel means future changes are a patch cord, not a re-termination.
Do you replace the switch too?
Only if it needs it. A clean-up often reveals a switch that is fine but badly configured. If an upgrade makes sense we will quote it separately so you can decide.
Available on site across Oxford County, Brant County, Norfolk County, Haldimand County, Hamilton, Burlington, Oakville.