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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi all,<br>
<br>
As usual, this was a case of "ask a vaguely coherent question on
AusNOG, get a dozen great answers". Thanks to everyone who
responded, both on- and off-list.<br>
<br>
To summarise the results, in order of popularity:<br>
<ol>
<li>Panduit vertical cable management, e.g.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/wkadtc8us5sxdql/20140527_155329.jpg">https://www.dropbox.com/s/wkadtc8us5sxdql/20140527_155329.jpg</a><br>
</li>
<li>No cable management at all - use the shortest possible
cables, and intersperse patching and switching, a-la
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://i.imgur.com/IiUiaDx.jpg">http://i.imgur.com/IiUiaDx.jpg</a></li>
<li>APC equivalent of the Panduit system<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p>I'm quite a fan of the simplicity of option #2, but I'm not
convinced it will work in this application, so I'd like to
explore options #1 & #3. Do any suppliers keep examples of
this sort of thing in stock, or can anyone recommend reference
sites in the Brisbane area who have current Panduit & APC
rack models installed and would be willing to give us a short
tour?<br>
</p>
<p>Thanks,<br>
Paul<br>
</p>
On 05/27/2014 03:36 PM, Paul Gear wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:5384246B.3050600@libertysys.com.au"
type="cite">Hi all,
<br>
<br>
Most of our sites have fairly simple cable management using
traditional cable management like this:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/nc7bmgs7j85laeq/20140527_145239.jpg">https://www.dropbox.com/s/nc7bmgs7j85laeq/20140527_145239.jpg</a>
<br>
<br>
This is easy to work with in most cases where we don't have high
port counts. However, once you push 48 Cat6 cables into them they
can get a bit tight.
<br>
<br>
We have some new sites which are coming online that require up to
288 ports per floor, and these will not fit in the single rack
provided for the floor if we use traditional cable management,
once all the patching, switching, and UPS requirements are taken
into account. We will still have 750-800 mm wide racks, so I was
hoping to find something that could be mounted at the side of the
rack and protrude towards the front, so that we could use all the
rack frontage for either patch panels or switch ports. Some
larger chassis switches seem to have this sort of thing built in,
e.g.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://product-images.www8-hp.com/digmedialib/prodimg/lowres/c03131047.png">http://product-images.www8-hp.com/digmedialib/prodimg/lowres/c03131047.png</a><br>
<br>
Searching Google suggests that there are plenty of options which
look OK for low-density deployment, e.g.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 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">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>
but putting up to 48 Cat6 cables on that would not work, in my
opinion. What I was hoping to find is something that would allow
cables to be laid in horizontally, more like the L-shaped lower
part of our existing Krone cable management, but a little longer
and a little wider (say, 70-90mm deep and 30mm wide), and possibly
with a number of different channels in it to separate different
groups of cables.
<br>
<br>
Does anyone know of such a system? Are there other options which
would allow us to cram in better Cat6 port densities?
<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance,
<br>
Paul<br>
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