<div dir="ltr">We use the APC equivalent, they're nigh on magic. No RU's wasted on cable management if you've got racks with space on the sides.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 May 2014 16:09, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:James.Baird@gwf.com.au" target="_blank">James.Baird@gwf.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br><font face="sans-serif">+1 to Panduit, if you can install 750mm
wide racks. Angled patch panels + side mounted vertical cable management.
Easily fits 480 ports per rack.</font>
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<br><font><tt>Hi all,<br>
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Most of our sites have fairly simple cable management using traditional
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cable management like this: <br>
<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/nc7bmgs7j85laeq/20140527_145239.jpg" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/nc7bmgs7j85laeq/20140527_145239.jpg</a><br>
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This is easy to work with in most cases where we don't have high port <br>
counts. However, once you push 48 Cat6 cables into them they can
get a <br>
bit tight.<br>
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We have some new sites which are coming online that require up to 288 <br>
ports per floor, and these will not fit in the single rack provided for
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the floor if we use traditional cable management, once all the patching,
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switching, and UPS requirements are taken into account. We will still
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have 750-800 mm wide racks, so I was hoping to find something that could
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be mounted at the side of the rack and protrude towards the front, so <br>
that we could use all the rack frontage for either patch panels or <br>
switch ports. Some larger chassis switches seem to have this sort
of <br>
thing built in, e.g. <br>
<a href="http://product-images.www8-hp.com/digmedialib/prodimg/lowres/c03131047.png" target="_blank">http://product-images.www8-hp.com/digmedialib/prodimg/lowres/c03131047.png</a><br>
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Searching Google suggests that there are plenty of options which look OK
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for low-density deployment, e.g. <br>
<a href="http://www.fibersavvy.com/store/i/is.aspx?path=/Shared/images/21_Cable%20Management/PP4-3197-1U_04.jpg&lr=t&bw=550&w=550&bh=550&h=550" target="_blank">http://www.fibersavvy.com/store/i/is.aspx?path=/Shared/images/21_Cable%20Management/PP4-3197-1U_04.jpg&lr=t&bw=550&w=550&bh=550&h=550</a>
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but putting up to 48 Cat6 cables on that would not work, in my opinion.
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What I was hoping to find is something that would allow cables to be <br>
laid in horizontally, more like the L-shaped lower part of our existing
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Krone cable management, but a little longer and a little wider (say, <br>
70-90mm deep and 30mm wide), and possibly with a number of different <br>
channels in it to separate different groups of cables.<br>
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Does anyone know of such a system? Are there other options which
would <br>
allow us to cram in better Cat6 port densities?<br>
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Thanks in advance,<br>
Paul<br>
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