Ok I've got a few comments offlist too and they all seem to draw the same
conclusion - crimp your own length. Thanks all for the input.
On Apr 17, 2015 4:11 PM, "William Herrin" wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Joe McLeod wrote:
> > Or you build the cable to fit the span. I must be get
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Joe McLeod wrote:
> Or you build the cable to fit the span. I must be getting old.
There's a "best of both worlds" version of this: buy lots of the
short-length cables (1 to 6 feet) and "cut down" longer cables where
the distance exceeds the short cables I can bu
> From: "Bob Evans"
> You must build them if you want the professional look. No way around that
> - unless you want to take up rack space with some sort of cable management
> wrapping system and that becomes a pain to make future changes or replace
> cables.
Re lacing is as much a pain (if you wa
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Bob Evans wrote:
> You must build them if you want the professional look. No way around that
> - unless you want to take up rack space with some sort of cable management
> wrapping system and that becomes a pain to make future changes or replace
> cables.
>
>> Or
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Justin Wilson - MTIN wrote:
> Copper and fiber patch panels are key. This way you can control the length
> from the patch to the device (router, switch,server).
>
Yeah, I am talking about just the runs in the rack - I don't see
a(nother) patch panel helping here
Copper and fiber patch panels are key. This way you can control the length
from the patch to the device (router, switch,server).
Justin
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the span. I must be getting old.
>
> Joe
>
> -Original Message-
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Rafael Possamai
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 3:00 PM
> To: North American Network Operators Group
> Subject: Re: rack cable length
>
>
Or you build the cable to fit the span. I must be getting old.
Joe
-Original Message-
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Rafael Possamai
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 3:00 PM
To: North American Network Operators Group
Subject: Re: rack cable length
Hi Shawn,
If
Hi Shawn,
If you don't leave slack, you can't really pull the server out of the RU
for maintenance (hot swaps, etc). Your best choice is to purchase cable
management trays if that makes sense (Dell servers usually come with
those). Otherwise you just need to deal with the loops and whatnot the
be
Cables should be within 2 feet of the total distance, if you order a stack
several sizes too long then add something like above/below the switch:
http://www.chatsworth.com/products/cable-management/horizontal-cable-management/
Slack should never be stored in the vertical, only in the horizontal.
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