Chapter 11

CCC Network Tour

We started in the Wayne West building for the Colleges Network Tour.  Here there are several switches and a router setup to send the traffic to and from each room as well as each floor where there is a similar setup.

Each floor has large pipes that allow the CAT-5 cables to run out to each room and connect to the jacks in the rooms.  It also has a fiber optic cable that runs from each floor to the next to connect the floors and complete the whole connection.

From here there are underground cables that run from the Wayne West Building over to the Library’s first floor.  At the end of the hallway on the first floor of the Library is where the IT and Server area for the school is located.  This area houses all the servers, SANs, NASs and consoles that run the schools network.

The consoles are how the IT personnel access, update and control all the servers and various other equipment in for the Carteret Community College Network.

These pictures hardly do the whole network any justice, but it is a very unique sight to see.  Most people only see the network from their PC and have no idea as to what it really takes to run it and keep it running.  It really is true when you hear IT people say that a networker is never off of work because it is truly a 24 hour a day 7 day a week job.