Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine

Thu Jan 25 09:07:49 UTC 2007

At 07:30 PM 1/24/2007, you wrote:
>Upon leaving a router at telx and asking one of their techs to plug 
>in the equipment for me, I came back to find all my cat5 cables 
>neatly tied with some sort of waxed twine, using an interesting 
>looping knot pattern that repeated every six inches or so using a 
>single piece of string.  For some reason, I found this trick really cool.
>
>I have tried googling for the method, (it's apparently standard, 
>I've seen it in play elsewhere), and for the type of twine, but had 
>little luck.  I was wondering if any of the gurus out there would 
>care to share what this knot-pattern is actually called, and/or if 
>there's a (illustrated) howto somewhere?

Someone else already mentioned Tecra Tools. We use Tecra. However, we 
use Specialized too.

http://www.specialized.net/ecommerce/shop/seriesmaster.asp?series_id=Cable+Lacing+Tools

Our guys prefer the Chicago style straight blade needles since the 
curved tools are too unwieldy when dealing with high cable density. 
Here is a picture from one of our datacenters:

http://www.tellurian.com/california/img_8065_std.jpg

We use lacing at all of our facilities. As far as I'm concerned, it 
is the only way to go.

-Robert

Tellurian Networks - Global Hosting Solutions Since 1995
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