The best solution for this is the 6509 NEB chassis. Failing that I've installed 6513's in 2 post racks rather than 4 post - as the attached cable management gave a good 6 or 8 inches of airspace.
Simon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Martin Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 2:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [c-nsp] APC Cabinets with SIde Air Distribution We are in the process of a hardware refresh on our core network which will see about 10 Catalyst 6500's replace existing 6006's and older 6509's. All will have either Sup 720 or Sup 32. Hardware has been ordered and is arriving daily. I am interested in what others are doing to accommodate hot isle/cold isle configurations with the cold isle in the front of the cabinet? As most of you are aware the fan tray on the 6500 is on the left side drawing cool air in the left and expelling hot air out the right. With our current configuration we have cabinets with an outside measurement of 22" which leaves very little room for air flow on the sides, shortly after installing this equipment in 1999 we wound up removing the sides of all cabinets. Of course this resulted in the exhaust from one switch being drawn in the intake of the next. We want to fix this situation with this hardware refresh project and have been looking at the APC 29" wide cabinet (PN AR3150) with APC's Side Air Distribution Fan (PN ACF201BLK). Can anybody comment on this setup? Or perhaps offer different/better solutions for air flow management? Thanks for your comments, and or advice. Rick Martin Network Engineering Team Lead State of Arkansas, Department of Information Systems _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
