On 7/11/2012 12:23 AM, Gilbert Wilson wrote:
I'm building out a new data room and wanted to know if anyone has used
neatpatch.
http://www.neatpatch.com/
It looks like a nice straight-forward solution to an all too common problem
I've encountered over the years in just about every data room I've worked in or
visited: nicely braided cables look amazing but are impractical. Years of
being pressed for time, a dead switch, or an overly involved network issue all
lead to those braids being annoying and turning into rat's nests.
If you have any alternative cable management systems/techniques that you have
found help reinforce keeping cables neat I'd be interested in your
recommendations.
Neat-patch looks like it is useful only in a very specific type of
patching situation. If you have direct one-to-one connections from
patch panels into a distribution switch (either a single VLAN per switch
or port-based VLANs) and no stacking between switches or requirement to
go from one patch panel to multiple switches.
I don't see how it would be useful in a general situation, such as the
one I just completed this weekend where in the network rack there were
13 48 port patch panels and 10 switches for 3 different VLANs - for the
most part 3 switches stacked for each VLAN. The patch panels were
clustered at the top and bottom (separated by the rows the cabinets they
came from were in), and the switches were in the middle of the rack.
Each patch panel had about 1/3 of the connections going to each of the
VLANS, so there could be cables going from the top of the cabinet to the
bottom set of switches or from the bottom of the cabinet to the top set
of switches.
-spp
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