[AusNOG] Improving rack density with different cable management

Tue May 27 17:48:10 EST 2014

Our last high density deployment we made a case to make every port on the
floor live and just did 1RU Patch panel, 1RUswitch, 1RU patch panel, 1RU
cable management, repeat. Then used 20cm patches to go direct from the
patch panel immediately above and below each switch into the switch. Had
the added bonus of no need to do any patch moves etc, just reconfigure the
VLAN of the switchport. We were getting 288 ports into half a rack

--Damian

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Beeson, Ayden <ABeeson at csu.edu.au> wrote:

> Oh also, something we have used in the past is the Panduit 1 and 2 RU
> cable management, both closed and open.
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> The 2RU closed one works fairly well for going between two flat 24 port
> panels, plenty of room for everything you need to fit though it’s a space
> waster compared to the angled panels with no horizontal cable management
> however….
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> Thanks,
>
> *Ayden Beeson*
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> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Beeson,
> Ayden
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 27 May 2014 4:28 PM
> *To:* James.Baird at gwf.com.au; Paul Gear
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> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net; AusNOG
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Improving rack density with different cable
> management
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> I can’t agree more. We use Panduit angled panels with the side cable
> management, it is amazing.
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> Even with standard 24 port 1RU panels you can get a LOT more ports into
> the same space….
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> 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….
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> Thanks,
>
> *Ayden Beeson*
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> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *
> James.Baird at gwf.com.au
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 27 May 2014 4:10 PM
> *To:* Paul Gear
> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net; AusNOG
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Improving rack density with different cable
> management
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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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> *Paul Gear <ausnog at libertysys.com.au <ausnog at libertysys.com.au>>*
> Sent by: "AusNOG" <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>
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> 05/27/2014 03:36 PM
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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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