[AusNOG] Improving rack density with different cable management

Tue May 27 16:27:36 EST 2014

I can’t agree more. We use Panduit angled panels with the side cable management, it is amazing.

Even with standard 24 port 1RU panels you can get a LOT more ports into the same space….

For really high density installs Panduit do a make a 48 port 1 RU HD minicom panel too though I would have assumed as was said earlier that it would be a real pain to work with….

Thanks,
Ayden Beeson

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+1 to Panduit, if you can install 750mm wide racks. Angled patch panels + side mounted vertical cable management. Easily fits 480 ports per rack.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wkadtc8us5sxdql/20140527_155329.jpg

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[AusNOG] Improving rack density with different cable management

Hi all,

Most of our sites have fairly simple cable management using traditional
cable management like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nc7bmgs7j85laeq/20140527_145239.jpg

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.

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.
http://product-images.www8-hp.com/digmedialib/prodimg/lowres/c03131047.png

Searching Google suggests that there are plenty of options which look OK
for low-density deployment, e.g.
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
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.

Does anyone know of such a system?  Are there other options which would
allow us to cram in better Cat6 port densities?

Thanks in advance,
Paul

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