Originally Posted By: Dignan
... It is pretty hilarious that all this stuff is on a 12' wide and 10' tall wall that's completely filled, and I'm reasonably certain that the majority of the communications in and out of the building are all through the coax cables on this little splitter by the floor laugh
Perhaps that wall is a side effect of not charging for the use of ‘excess’ space in the telecom closet.

Effectively the tenants surplus and disused equipment in there is squatting on valuable and scarce real estate. I would suspect that other than some loose kind of landlord permission to install gear in there, nobody was managing or supervising the allocation and consumption of wall space. *

Something of a tragedy of the commons, but in a closet.


* In some buildings a similar problem occurs in the telecom conduits that carry cables through the building, or between buildings.