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    Cable Management - Methods to the Madness and what happens when you need to replace

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    • travisdh1T
      travisdh1 @NashBrydges
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      @NashBrydges said in Cable Management - Methods to the Madness and what happens when you need to replace:

      While I love cable pr0n as much as the next guy, I'd never setup an environment where replacing a single cable would be an all-day adventure. Velcro is the only cable tie that I find acceptable.

      You need more than a single upvote for that. Cable ties make me cringe in an otherwise flawless cable run.

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      • dbeatoD
        dbeato
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        The first image looks like most cables are AV and Speaker cables 😛 Looks like an audio setup.

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        • dbeatoD
          dbeato
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          I also pointed out that one cable that goes bad makes it very annoying to find (If not documented...)

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403 @dbeato
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            @dbeato said in Cable Management - Methods to the Madness and what happens when you need to replace:

            I also pointed out that one cable that goes bad makes it very annoying to find (If not documented...)

            Likely and more importantly, it makes it difficult to nearly impossible to replace.

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            • GreyG
              Grey @dbeato
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              @dbeato said in Cable Management - Methods to the Madness and what happens when you need to replace:

              I also pointed out that one cable that goes bad makes it very annoying to find (If not documented...)

              https://www.cableorganizer.com/mertek/evo6-patch-cord/

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              • NerdyDadN
                NerdyDad @Grey
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                @Grey said in Cable Management - Methods to the Madness and what happens when you need to replace:

                @dbeato said in Cable Management - Methods to the Madness and what happens when you need to replace:

                I also pointed out that one cable that goes bad makes it very annoying to find (If not documented...)

                https://www.cableorganizer.com/mertek/evo6-patch-cord/

                I would assume that they just pull power from the network connection, themselves.

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                • NDCN
                  NDC
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                  Stacked and cabled some reasonably dense cabinets way back when but nothing like the stuff in those pictures.

                  Cables got the shit labeled straight out of them. Everything was pretty clear and easy to trace but the company I worked for used the plastic ties. One cable replacement would have ruined all the work that went into making a cabinet pretty.

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                  • NerdyDadN
                    NerdyDad
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                    It would also help to color code the purpose of the network cable. Is this cable going to a client computer, a server, an access point, or to another switch? Or is this the cable that plugs the entire network into the ISP?

                    One thing that helps a little bit is the ANSI/TIA/EIA-606 guidelines, but that is all it is, a guideline. Not really even for IT, but more for telecommunications. However, we do need to adopt some kind of convention for IT. This would help the next person who is tracing wires quickly eliminate wires that they do not need to trace.

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                    • dbeatoD
                      dbeato @Grey
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                      @Grey Yeah, if they bought those cables 🙂

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                        bnrstnr @dbeato
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                        @dbeato said in Cable Management - Methods to the Madness and what happens when you need to replace:

                        @Grey Yeah, if they bought those cables 🙂

                        If they bought those cables they must have money to burn... $120 for (10) 3 ft. cables. ouch.

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                        • dbeatoD
                          dbeato @bnrstnr
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                          @bnrstnr Yeah, way too expensive.

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