[c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

[Ian McDonald]

You also get a V-E chassis which has the modules vertically, and a cable manager fanning the cables out. 

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ian

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From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Alan Buxey
Sent: 08 July 2013 13:21
To: Jon Lewis; chris stand
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

We use cable management bars and route all cables to the left and right thus ensuring that we don't have cables blocking the removal of a failed module or a module that needs swapping out for upgrade. Would recommend wider racks for such locations . You have more space to each side and often containment channels

alan



-------- Original message --------
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis at lewis.org>
Date: 08/07/2013 13:11 (GMT+00:00)
To: chris stand <cstand141 at gmail.com>
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables


On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, chris stand wrote:

> Does anyone mount 6500s directly under the patch panels ?  If you do, 
> do the cables run to the left and right and would you share a photo or two ?

I've run cables in from both sides.  You can get cable management bars that rack mount on top of the 6500 chassis rack ears.  These are literally a steel bar with 2 radiused 90* bends, the ends of which are welded to "rack ears".  Mounting these in front of the line cards, you can then use velcro to secure the cables on their way to the line card ports.

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