In our latest rack, it's a 288ct fiber terminating to an ADC (Commscope) panel and then it's just a load of 1 meter patch cables straight to the OLT ports.
Cat5 down the tower to the patch panel/switch is always shit. We put in Chuck's surge cards and then a patch cable from that to a Mikrotik. There's always water in 1 cable given enough time, so we replace the card and cable. On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 2:45 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > 100% patch panels eventually. > > But yes, switches and patch panels. > > What I'm asking about is generally "Front of rack patch cable > management". Not the back, not the cables into the rack, not power cords > on back of equipment. Simply port-to-port patch panel on the front. > > On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 12:42 PM Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> > wrote: > >> Full of what? Switches and patch panels? >> >> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 2:37 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < >> li...@packetflux.com> wrote: >> >>> Ok let me clarify. (Accidentally hit send since it's apparently the >>> same hotkey to send on gmail as I use elsewhere for "insert a return >>> without sending") >>> >>> Think 10 years of neglect and basically no front-side cable management. >>> Cables everywhere. Not as bad as some reddit pictures, but definitely a >>> good 'before' picture. >>> >>> We're starting from scratch here. All that exists is some side of 2 >>> post rack cable management (rings) which holds existing cat5 cables to some >>> patch panels. It's pretty much full too.... >>> >>> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 12:32 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < >>> li...@packetflux.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Nope. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 12:21 PM Josh Luthman < >>>> j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Share a picture of what you have now? >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 2:15 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < >>>>> li...@packetflux.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Thanks to the (not) fun labor situation anymore, I've gotten sucked >>>>>> back into some more of the day to day design stuff at the WISP, >>>>>> specifically some of the server/fiber infrastructure at the head end. >>>>>> >>>>>> It's time for me to just fix the cable management in the racks, which >>>>>> apparently the previous "owners" of this particular portion of the >>>>>> network >>>>>> didn't feel was important, or probably more accurately, didn't know how >>>>>> to >>>>>> fix. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm looking for ANY options which have been proven to work, don't let >>>>>> the following dissuade suggesting a specific option. >>>>>> >>>>>> Right now, what I'm thinking is to add a "0RU" fiber/cable management >>>>>> "tray" below each 1U switch and/or fiber patch panel, then drag that out >>>>>> to >>>>>> a vertical riser which is in front of the rack. Note that this is for >>>>>> the open relay racks, not for closed server racks, not sure what to do >>>>>> there. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> - Forrest >>>>>> -- >>>>>> AF mailing list >>>>>> AF@af.afmug.com >>>>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> AF mailing list >>>>> AF@af.afmug.com >>>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> - Forrest >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> - Forrest >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> AF@af.afmug.com >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > > > -- > - Forrest > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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