datacenter wiring: Network patch panels, switches, wiring mess

The music is just as terrifying as the cabling!
Now, try to work on that.

Datacenter cabling really should look something more like this:

or this:

Untangling the hot mess that is in the first vid is going to take some major work!
Here is an example, with just few racks involved, but whole ton of switch ports connected to them:

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