Hi Matt
I mentioned before that, I believe, the proper way to do this is to have
cable races vertically oriented leading to a very spacious horizontal
raceway above all the racks.
I'm an engineer at a small radio station and we have hundreds of
balanced audio cables and CAT5 all over. No 'big' problems. There just
isn't really a need for a rack room to be that messy.
--
Martin K

Matt Pobursky wrote:
> On the surface the photos are easy to poke fun at but in reality no
> network closet I've ever worked on with a large amount of connections
> (say >100) looked any different.
>
> Once you get past a few dozen cables, making them different colors
> doesn't help much. You just end up with a few dozen red, blue,
> yellow, green, grey, etc. cables all mixed together. And adding
> labels to them just makes them hard to pull and route through the
> cable looms or bundles. Labeled cables are also problematic when
> replaced later (and they do get replaced from time to time).
>
> The best solution I've seen (and use) is to make a routing/connection
> chart that includes "FROM" and "TO" connections in tabular form. It's
> just like a wire list for any other cabling system and allows you to
> quickly find out where any one cable is supposed to be connected. You
> can make them in Excel with very little trouble and it allows then to
> be searchable and printable in a nice format for hard copy
> documentation.
>
> If you have such a cable routing document you can quickly pinpoint
> where any one cable is routed From/To should you need to replace it
> or change it's routing. Of course this all falls apart if you don't
> update the documentation when you make changes or you didn't do it in
> the first place ...
>
> Matt Pobursky
> Maximum Performance Systems
>
>
>   


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