We had switches with those instead of RJ-4s as well.. and had fan-out cables.
Without the intermediary patch panel, they are a pain. They might work OK for the patch trunk though. -sc > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 1:23 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Re-cabling > > 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 ~ 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
