What I ended up using in a prior position where I managed a number of network closets (and designed layout for a few new ones ) was a mixture of angled patch panels, wide vertical management (wider is better if you have space), a mix of cable lengths to minimize excess slack, and minimal horizontal management. Chatsworth makes a number of vertical managers that have fingers spaced every 1U. In combination with angled panels this makes it very easy to keep that end of the cable easily managed. On the other end I'd then bring half the cables for each switch in from each side. (I'd bundle them with a velcro tie wrap.) The vertical managers would provide space to take up the extra slack, although I'd try to minimize it by having a mixture of cable lengths. I'd put a small number of 2U horizontal managers throughout the rack to allow easily crossing cables that came out of the patch panel on one side, but plugged into the other side of the switch. (In multi rack closets this also allowed a path to bring cables from the outside across the rack to another rack.) -- Thanks Jefferson Cowart
Doug Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: On 7/11/2012 10:51 AM, Jeff Wasilko wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 09:23:45PM -0700, Gilbert Wilson wrote: >> I'm building out a new data room and wanted to know if anyone has used >> neatpatch. >> >> http://www.neatpatch.com/ > Chatsworth and Middle Atlantic have a myriad of cabling solutions, some of which I've seen, a couple of which I've used, and many of which I have no idea how they work. It's far too many to understand by attempting to browse their product line. This is one of those cases where talking to a sales rep is beneficial just because of the immense depth of the product line. You need somebody to help you navigate the sea of part numbers and specialized items. In particular, the chatsworth 2 post stuff plus side channels is very nice for traditional dense patching, plus the Siemon flatmax or anglemax modular patch panels with snap in jacks. (I prefer anglemax, but there are cases for both) _____________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
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