Thursday, November 22, 2018

Rack Cable Management

I am about to start patching stuff in my new rack, and I'm wondering what the best method of cable management is for it.

If I follow suit with the existing method they company uses, it's usually something like this:

1U Fibre patch pannel 1U Fibre patch pannel 1U Cable management bar 1U Fibre patch pannel 1U Fibre patch pannel 1U Cable management bar 1U Switch/Firewall/router/whatever 1U Cable management bar 1U Switch/Firewall/router/whatever 1U Cable management bar ETC until the rest of the rack is full 

The fibre patch pannels are just pannels that go to another rack in the center of the comms room (the comms room has about 50 racks in). In the center of the comms room there is a few racks that all other racks have fibre connected to. This way, I can easily patch any switch to the top of the rack it sits in, and then in the center racks jumper this lead over to the other rack it's destined to.

The reason theres a lot of fibre patch pannels is because there is a core switch in the rack, so all of the distribution switches are connecting to this cab.

Is there a better way of managing cables, and if so, please share with me your method. Thanks!



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