Work at GVSU's TelCom Department.
We are in the "telephone room" under Manitou Hall. Few people ever see
this room. Most of the
terminations here are for telephones, but the racks to the right
handle
computers. The main-frame computer and primary file server farm are two
floors above us. The telephone "switch room" is upstairs, along with more
computer network hubs and banks of CD ROMs.
My boss Mark Kuzee has been connecting hundreds of pairs of wires above
the step ladder in back. I helped him put together the rack in front of
the ladder.
There are tunnels leading from this level which connect all the buildings
on campus. In these tunnels are utility mains, cables and optical fiber.