On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Brian Desmond <[email protected]> wrote: > Rather than pulling cable all the way down in to the racks, you might want > to think about putting a 24 or 48 port panel in the top (back) of each rack > and then running short patch cables from there. Then on the other end you > can cross connect to the switch or whatever.
Back in the days of =< 100 meg, you could buy CAT5 cables and patch panels with 50-pin "telco" connectors. So you could then connect 12 ports on a patch panel using a single cable. This saved labor, cable space, and made things neater, as you only had to run one or two trunk cables to each rack. I don't know if that's still feasible for >= gig. It uses all four pairs, so you'd only get 6 ports per connector. The cross-talk requirements are also much stricter, so it may flat-out violate spec. But even if one can't do the single connector method, you can buy cable assembles which bundle a bunch of 4-pair RJ-45 lines into a single outer sheath. That still might make cable management better. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
