[AusNOG] Switch installation in data centre racks - front facing, or rear facing?

[Sam Silvester]

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There's enterprise racks, and SP racks and I'd say to generalise,
> Enterprise do the ports to the front to structured cabling, while SPs will
> reverse mount for shorter wire runs and density. Also swapping out reverse
> mounted switches is a huge pain.
>
>
That's an interesting statement. What makes you say that? I've come across
sites where the front to front (cold aisle) spacing of racks is greater
than rear to rear (hot aisle), is that what you are getting at?

Cheers,

Sam
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