rack cable length

Fri Apr 17 19:22:46 UTC 2015

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.

Thank You
Bob Evans
CTO


> Or you build the cable to fit the span.  I must be getting old.
>
> Joe
>
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> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at 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 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
> best way you can. If your colo hardware is really random (dells, HPs,
> supermicros) then it gets worse, but if your hardware is homogeneous then
> you can come up with some way of attaching brackets to the side of the
> rack that could help you avoid a rats nest in the back of your rack
> (granted you can't find cable management trays or they are too expensive
> to justify the investment).
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:44 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is probably a stupid question, but....
>>
>> We've got a few racks in a colo. The racks don't have any decent cable
>> management (square metal holes to attach velcro to). We either order
>> cable too long and end up with lots of loops which get in the way (no
>> place to loop lots of excess really) or too short to run along the
>> side (which is worse). It appears others using the same racks have
>> figured this out, but...
>>
>> Do y'all just order 10 of each size per rack in every color you need
>> or is there a better way to figure this out? I'm guessing something
>> like 24 inches + 1.75 inchex x Us) + 24 inches and round up to
>> standard length...?
>>
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