[AusNOG] Airflow for Cisco switches in racks

[Shane Short]

Panduit do make some doodads for this which was originally designed for 
the Catalyst 49XX series: 
http://www.panduit.com/wcs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=Panduit_Global%2FPG_Layout&cid=1345564328963&packedargs=classification_id%3D1862584%26locale%3Den_us&pagename=PG_Wrapper

I like the integrated cable management.. because we all put cable 
management with our switches, right? RIGHT? good!

Hayden Flack wrote:
> Hi Radek,
>
> Have you thought about designing a vent solution that sucks the hot 
> air and tunnels it to the desired location?
>
> It wouldn't need to be a perfect fit, a vacuum type tubing that could 
> suck the hot air and release it away from the cold isle containment.
>
> Regards
> Hayden
>
> On 6 November 2015 at 12:49, Radek Tkaczyk <radek at tkaczyk.id.au 
> <mailto:radek at tkaczyk.id.au>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Guys,
>
>     We always mount our network switches in our racks with the
>     switches facing the rear, so that when you cable up servers, you
>     don’t have a mess of network cabling going from the front of the
>     rack to the back of the rack. This has worked well for us for the
>     last 10 years or so, but recently with providers like NextDC doing
>     cold isle containment, this means that switches are blowing hot
>     air into the cold aisle, and some people get unhappy with this.
>
>     We use Cisco 3750 switches which are 1RU, and they blow hot air
>     out the back of the switches, some models have side-to-back
>     airflow, but it still results in hot air being sent into the cold
>     aisle. I have always thought that this amount of hot air was
>     negligible, and wouldn’t even matter in the overall scheme of
>     things, as long as your servers were mounted around the right way.
>
>     How are other people handling this situation? I’m not really keen
>     on changing our rack standards and having to re-do the entire
>     cabling for racks across the 4 of our data centres that are using
>     cold isle containment!
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Radek Tkaczyk
>
>     Ph: 0413 383 231
>
>
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