<div>As for wiring closets. I really like our setup.</div>
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<div>one 2 post rack with 48 port patch panel with 1 u of cable management followed by 48 port patch panel repeating all the way down the rack.</div>
<div>Then I put a rack in next to it that I put my switches in with 2u cable management between. </div>
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<div>This way if down the road I wanted to replace 3560's with a 6513 I could. Then the next rack is a patch panel rack followed by a switch rack.</div>
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<div>has really helped with patch cabling as I just use 3 foot cables and they are easy to follow.</div>
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<div>personally I like our rooms setup sequentially. It never fails that facilities puts file cabnets or desks or cube walls in front of drops. so I can go to the 4 drops before or after and figure out what the port numbers are.</div>
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<div>We for the most part use the PC port on the phones. But you can never have to much cable in case your helpdesk moves into a location =) or the admin who has 3 network printers, phone, pc, laptop, scanner, etc.</div>
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<div>YMMV</div>
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<div>Scott<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Robert Kulagowski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rkulagow@gmail.com">rkulagow@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">So far I've seen two schools of thought:<br><br>A) All the patching in one rack area, switches in another, then 7-10 foot patch cables connecting everything together. Lots and lots of wires and cable management.<br>
<br>B) 1RU switches interspersed with 48 port panel, using "shorty" CAT5 cables, so essentially each port on the panel is connected via a cable that's so short that it doesn't need any cable management. Precludes use of chassis-based systems.<br>
<br>Patch panel punch-down variations:<br><br>1: each location has 4 CAT5 connections, and they're punched down sequentially on the 48 port panel (distributed horizontally)<br>2: each location has 4 CAT5 connections, and they're punched down vertically on 4 x 48 port patch panels. So one patch panel will have all the "A" CAT5s for all cubes, the next will have all the "B"s, etc. "A" will be the most heavily used, B the next, etc, because most cubes won't need more than two connections.<br>
<br>Anyone not using the PC port on their phone and instead using 2xCAT5; one for voice and one for data?<br><br>Anything else you wish you could do over again, now that you know what you know?<br>_______________________________________________<br>
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