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Re: DATACENTER: Patch Panels
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At 08:05 PM 10/20/99 -0400, Daniel Hagerty wrote:
> > From: [email protected]
> > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:20:54 -0400
> >
> > Long shot here....I was in Abovenets DC space and noticed the
patch panels,
> > I THOUGHT they were from a company called "crone"...these are the
patch
> > panels on the top of all the customer racks and are brought back
to that
> > funky cross connect system they have which is made by the same
company....
>
> "Krone" -- I think they're german.
>
> > 2) Why are they using that cross connect system for the cables
once they
> > come back to their MDFs? Is this for Flexibility? Performance?
Neatness? I
> > imagine that most their handoff is Ethernet so they would use
just straight
> > patch cords...but I suppose this is easier to maintain if you
have skilled
> > people doing the punches...and easier to troublshoot...
>
> In large enough data centers, you need things that aren't
>ethernet. If you can afford the costs in skilled people, etc. using
a
>copper pair as the unit of management allows maximum flexibility.
>
> I would imagine a number of above net customers want POTS lines
>for out-of-band managment of their box, for example.
In my case, I am trying to design our MDF so that it not only
does POTS, Ether, but T1 and PRI or whatever we can wire over
4 pairs.
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Regards,
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Martin Hannigan [email protected]
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CO Space Services, LLC F: 617.788.1965
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