good cabling in real environments [Re: Request for submissions: messy cabling and other broken things]

Wed Dec 17 19:52:59 UTC 2003

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John Kinsella wrote:

| On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 07:07:13PM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
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|>How do you do good cabling in dynamic, real environments? :-)
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| You hide the spiders nest with lots of panduit covers? ;)
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| Honestly, I think it comes down to two things:  Planning before
| implementation - you pre-wire your net gear to patch panels before it
| goes into production;  This keeps most hands off the back end stuff
| except for the occasional test to verify that a patch is working.  This
| same planning goes into a second set of patch panels which you terminate
| in the racks, that removes another major part of one-off cable pulls.
| Rack server, crosconnect to top of rack, back to your patch panels,
| cross connect to network patch panel, you're set.
|

I've even found some examples of some of that and posted them at
http://www.pinskyfamily.org/dcstuff/

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