Cunningly Camouflaged Cable Routed Around WAN-Sized Hole In Project Budget
The Register, Friday, June 2,2023
Leaf and spine networks aren't the only way to make a connection with nature
Welcome once again, dear reader, to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed tales of tortuous tech support traumas and triumphs.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Leif" who, back in the day, was given quite a challenge: a vendor's European office expanded into an adjacent office building, but the move would take months - and the network in both buildings needed to be connected throughout, and keep working within the buildings they served.
This was not a straightforward job. In the original office was an ageing Token-Ring network that served an AS 400, and in the new one was shiny new Cisco kit.