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

[Paul Wilkins]

Because SPs have the luxury to not use structured cabling, due to scale
where all switch ports share a common configuration, so there's no need for
a patch panel, just patch direct to the switch, whereas in enterprise,
inadvertent swapping of ports leads to P1s, hence, structured cabling is
fairly ubiquitous.

Kind regards

Paul Wilkins

On 4 October 2017 at 14:56, Sam Silvester <sam.silvester at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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