Welcome back to Tech Service Today's IT Disaster of the Week series where we post the ugliest IT environment our technicians run into each week.

This week's image will likely be featured in TST's 2018 Halloween House of IT Horrors video because it shows more than just the messy, chaotic cabling, which IT professionals often call spider webs. It includes actual spider webs built all around the data and voice cabling. 

These massive webs not only turned the fluorescent light fixture into a spider nursery, but they've made the completion of any moves/adds/changes nearly impossible...for "safety reasons" according to our technician (who claimed the spider who spun these webs was larger than any mouse he'd ever seen).

But stepping back and looking at the bigger picture - beyond the actual spider webs - it is clear why we chose this image as our IT Disaster of the Week. Very little (if any) planning went into cable management for this network environment. Granted, this area is below the ground floor of a building. But when it comes to managing IT networks, just because they might be "Out of Sight" should never make them "Out of Mind". Otherwise you end up with a disaster like this, a site so horrific that it nearly drove our Technician out of his mind (especially after seeing "the queen of all arachnids" who made this cabling her home).

What Can You Do If Your Network Is Already A Disaster?

First, don't panic. Second, call Tech Service Today. As explained in our Cabling Cleanup Services video, even if your network disaster is in a remote office in the middle of nowhere, TST has 20,000 skilled IT technicians who can restore order to even the ugliest cabling chaos plaguing a network - regardless of where it is in North America.

So be sure to call TST before your network gets so tangled that you experience an outage. Or worse, before you see a picture of your network in a future IT Disaster Of The Week post. 

Check back every Friday for TST's latest IT Disaster of the Week photo  

which represent one of the thousands of customer sites our technicians visit every year as they install and service IT, networking, and telecom equipment & cabling for our clients.

Click here to see last week's IT Disaster photo.

Do you already have an IT disaster that needs to be cleaned up?

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to install a network. But to ensure that your equipment, racks and cabling are installed properly in an organized, efficient fashion, it does require the talents of a skilled IT technician. If you need help installing or cleaning up your network, contact Tech Service Today to have a skilled, seasoned Technician dispatched to your site.

Need help installing, troubleshooting, testing, documenting, or replacing your network cabling?  Call Tech Service Today for on-site technical services anywhere in North America - often in 4-hours or less.

Just call (800) 973-2022 (option 1), or Email us at Service@TechServiceToday.com