Because SPs have the luxury to not use structured cabling, due to scale where all switch ports share a common configuration, so there's no need for a patch panel, just patch direct to the switch, whereas in enterprise, inadvertent swapping of ports leads to P1s, hence, structured cabling is fairly ubiquitous.
Kind regards Paul Wilkins On 4 October 2017 at 14:56, Sam Silvester <sam.silves...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> There's enterprise racks, and SP racks and I'd say to generalise, >> Enterprise do the ports to the front to structured cabling, while SPs will >> reverse mount for shorter wire runs and density. Also swapping out reverse >> mounted switches is a huge pain. >> >> > That's an interesting statement. What makes you say that? I've come across > sites where the front to front (cold aisle) spacing of racks is greater > than rear to rear (hot aisle), is that what you are getting at? > > Cheers, > > Sam > >
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