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RE: DATACENTER: Making LOTS of custom patch cables.
Marty,
Well we for one are pretty strict about pulling unused cables from service.
Also try tracing a wire that has no slack through a bundle of 50 to 100.
Also the real tight ones are much more likely to have the ends pulled off or
at least away from the conecntrator. Plus as someone else pointed out you
never end up having the proper length on hand. And my network personnel are
way to busy to be fussing with a handmade cable every time we have a new
user comes up.
Cabling though, like protocols boils down to a religious war.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Hannigan [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 3:54 PM
> To: David Greer
> Cc: Jeffrey C. Ollie; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: DATACENTER: Making LOTS of custom patch cables.
>
>
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> What kind of troubles? I have always felt it is so easy to build a
> cable and it looks neat this is the best way to go. My experience has
> found that the volume of changes after the initial install is done
> are minimum. Adds should be easy. Deletes? Does anyone really take
> cables out anymore? :-)
>
> Disclaimer; I'm thinking telco centric data cabling, so my experience
> may not be reflective of a raw data center.
>
> PS: I don't allow tie wraps either. #14 Wax lacing baby! Boo yeah!
>
> :-)
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Martin Hannigan [email protected]
> Asst. Vice President // Engineering V: 617.204.0200
> New England Voice & Data
>
> On Mon, 17 May 1999, David Greer wrote:
>
> > Jeff,
> >
> > I am going to have to disagree with Marty and you on this one.
> I have found
> > that using custom lengths on patch panels while looking nice,
> can lead to
> > management headaches especially when terminating very many. If
> you must use
> > really short cables do yourself a favor and call a vendor and
> arrange a bulk
> > order of a couple lengths that should fix the affordability factor. As
> > always order at least 50% more than you envision using as you
> will be wrong.
> >
> > I have found that using 2, 4, and 6 foot cable is about the
> usual for most
> > rack setups. Personally though we just use 8 footers. There
> is plenty of
> > extra cable laying around
> > but its ugliness is made up by its ease of use and a locked door.
> >
> > One thing that can help. If you are running multiple data
> outlets to each
> > are don't segragate all the D1's in one place, and all the D2's
> in another.
> > Run the matching D1 & D2 jacks side by side your cable plant
> will look much
> > nicer.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [email protected]
> > > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Jeffrey C. Ollie
> > > Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 3:06 PM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: DATACENTER: Making LOTS of custom patch cables.
> > >
> > >
> > > This summer and fall, we are going to be upgrading our entire
> network to
> > > 100MB to the desktop. As a part of this upgrade we are going to be
> > > redoing existing patch panels and installing entirely new
> ones. To keep
> > > things looking nice, we want to cut each patch cable to the
> exact length
> > > required. We find that our cabinets look a LOT nicer if there are no
> > > loops of slack cable laying around.
> > >
> > > There are a couple of us that are relatively proficient in
> making patch
> > > cables with the standard pliers-type crimpers. However, as fast as we
> > > are it's still going to be a very tedious job. So to speed
> things up we
> > > are hoping to find some sort of machine that can make up patch cables
> > > faster than we can by hand. We're willing to spend up to US$10,000 or
> > > so on a solution.
> > >
> > > Can anyone recommend products that will solve our problem?
> > >
> > > Jeff
> > >
> >
> >
>