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    Cable Management - Methods to the Madness and what happens when you need to replace

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      DustinB3403
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      So a topic on SW pop'd into my thread about cable management (cable porn) and while I do like how semetric and neat everything is, I see so many issues with a lot of it. Like the inability to replace a faulty cable in the middle of the pack. Or the use of cable ties (granted some are using velcro).

      The lack of cable support straps etc.

      Here is the link to the link of the OP's topic displaying the fancy cable management.

      http://imgur.com/gallery/uPdpC

      What kind of issues do you guys see?

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        NashBrydges
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        While I love cable pr0n as much as the next guy, I'd never setup an environment where replacing a single cable would be an all-day adventure. Velcro is the only cable tie that I find acceptable.

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          Grey
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          uh huh. via 9gag. Yes. The OP has most assuredly done all of that work.

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            travisdh1 @NashBrydges
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            @NashBrydges said in Cable Management - Methods to the Madness and what happens when you need to replace:

            While I love cable pr0n as much as the next guy, I'd never setup an environment where replacing a single cable would be an all-day adventure. Velcro is the only cable tie that I find acceptable.

            You need more than a single upvote for that. Cable ties make me cringe in an otherwise flawless cable run.

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              dbeato
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              The first image looks like most cables are AV and Speaker cables 😛 Looks like an audio setup.

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                dbeato
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                I also pointed out that one cable that goes bad makes it very annoying to find (If not documented...)

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                  DustinB3403 @dbeato
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                  @dbeato said in Cable Management - Methods to the Madness and what happens when you need to replace:

                  I also pointed out that one cable that goes bad makes it very annoying to find (If not documented...)

                  Likely and more importantly, it makes it difficult to nearly impossible to replace.

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                    Grey @dbeato
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                    @dbeato said in Cable Management - Methods to the Madness and what happens when you need to replace:

                    I also pointed out that one cable that goes bad makes it very annoying to find (If not documented...)

                    https://www.cableorganizer.com/mertek/evo6-patch-cord/

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                      NerdyDad @Grey
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                      @Grey said in Cable Management - Methods to the Madness and what happens when you need to replace:

                      @dbeato said in Cable Management - Methods to the Madness and what happens when you need to replace:

                      I also pointed out that one cable that goes bad makes it very annoying to find (If not documented...)

                      https://www.cableorganizer.com/mertek/evo6-patch-cord/

                      I would assume that they just pull power from the network connection, themselves.

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                        NDC
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                        Stacked and cabled some reasonably dense cabinets way back when but nothing like the stuff in those pictures.

                        Cables got the shit labeled straight out of them. Everything was pretty clear and easy to trace but the company I worked for used the plastic ties. One cable replacement would have ruined all the work that went into making a cabinet pretty.

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                          NerdyDad
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                          It would also help to color code the purpose of the network cable. Is this cable going to a client computer, a server, an access point, or to another switch? Or is this the cable that plugs the entire network into the ISP?

                          One thing that helps a little bit is the ANSI/TIA/EIA-606 guidelines, but that is all it is, a guideline. Not really even for IT, but more for telecommunications. However, we do need to adopt some kind of convention for IT. This would help the next person who is tracing wires quickly eliminate wires that they do not need to trace.

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                            dbeato @Grey
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                            @Grey Yeah, if they bought those cables 🙂

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                              bnrstnr @dbeato
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                              @dbeato said in Cable Management - Methods to the Madness and what happens when you need to replace:

                              @Grey Yeah, if they bought those cables 🙂

                              If they bought those cables they must have money to burn... $120 for (10) 3 ft. cables. ouch.

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                                dbeato @bnrstnr
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                                @bnrstnr Yeah, way too expensive.

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