TomS_
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Re: My first attempt at cable "lacing"
said by mrkevin  :Harris Stratex TruePoint 5000 Cool, I was trying to work out what that was. Is it just me or is that ODU absolutely massive?
said by houkouonchi :This is about as pretty as cable management gets where I work: Cool fisheye effect.  |
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houkouonchi
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This is about as pretty as cable management gets where I work:
Full size image:
»eth3.houkouonchi.jp/dsc_4658.jpg
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said by AMD Phreak :Impressive work there mrkevin. What kind of microwave do you have? Thanks! it was a lot of fun and frustration.
Harris Stratex TruePoint 5000
»www.harrisstratex.com/products/tr5000/
It's been flawless.
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AMD Phreak
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Impressive work there mrkevin. What kind of microwave do you have? |
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Micro site | 
tied | 
cable lay | 
Tower |
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TomS_
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Trust me when I say this that even though it looks like the cable ties have been done up really tight and are squeezing the cables, they really arent that tight. They are firm, but still easily rotatable. Just looks a bit funny in the picture for some reason.
All services have now been migrated off the PoP that this one replaces, so I can finally decomission that one and pull the gear out.
This PoP is doing a bit of work now. It services two DSLAMs, and a couple of customers via ethernet and other types of services. Its quickly becomming a major site for us.
Its possible that another switch will be installed to provide fibre based connections, and its looking more likely that the two switches pictured here will be merged together as the top one isnt likely to have much more plugged into it and seems a bit of a waste. |
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LazMan
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These DSX panels are actually used for timing distribution, so they aren't wired fully... Was just using them as an example of lacing. Our DS1 cross-connects are on an ADC frame; not traditional DSX panels.
»https://www-wsp.adc.com/ecom/catalog/hie···ND101755
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Splitpair
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I wonder why on the upper DSX the last 4 low speeds (Lucent C-7-1,4 Fuji 5-7-1,4 are not wired?
And the middle one is only half wired?
Also strange is the DSX's are powered but it looks like the A lead spindowns are not used, noramlly a DSX would have two and a half pair per slot that looks like only two pair per slot.
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LazMan
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said by TomS_ :Looks like someone made a typo too. LOL - Nice catch. Been walking past those panels for 3 years, and never noticed! |
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TomS_
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Looks like someone made a typo too. |
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LazMan
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Simple running stitch | 
Shows overall install | 
More running stitches | 
DSX panel - 3 ways |
Here's a couple of pics of some string work from one of my offices; as well as 3 different ways to do a DSX panel, 1 using string, 2 with tywraps. And yes, that 3 panels in the same rack were done in different ways, DOES make me mental...
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TomS_
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I suppose you could use STP Cat6 to help with that? |
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Kalabin
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One thing I'm curious on is with Cat6A becoming more widely used, on 24-port and 48-port switches would using Lacing be as acceptable? I know with the patch panel's tieing to station side the dress on the rack is pretty slack compared to Cat5 where you can break them into tight bundles.
Reason being with Cat6A you run into an issue with Alien Crosstalk on the higher frequencies which is when your pushing the 10Gbps range. Does this mean Velcro would be the correct way to tie down cables so that your bundles are not so tight where crosstalk would become an issue? This is assuming your coming out of a server room actually pushing that amount of bandwidth between locations.
Just curious to see if anyone as come across this or put any thought into it. |
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Splitpair
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said by battleop :After 4 years all four of them are sagging in the rear. That sounds more like an ex-wife problem than a router issue. 
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battleop
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The way you have the 7200 mounted sucks. Not how you have done it, the way Cisco has designed it. If I remember the ears only mount with two small screws that you would think can't hold a router that heavy. I've got 4 7206s that have been in the rack mounted the same way yours is mounted. After 4 years all four of them are sagging in the rear. |
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Harddrive
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thank goodness you're not in Rhode Island USA using tie wraps for data. its against Rhode Island telecommunications laws to use plastic tie wraps for data wiring. you can still use tie wraps for voice lines though. go figure.
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NetAdmin
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Looks nice. The tie wraps appear to be a little too tight in one or two spots.
I'm more of a velcro straps kind of guy.
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2811's are decent boxes. We have around 120 of them in our dmvpn network. Only thing is that they seem to max out at around ~20mbit - 25mbit throughput with minor services enabled, even less depending on what policy-maps (qos) we have in place and if we have cisco ios based IPS enabled.
We also have around ~200 of the 3560 POE series switches, and they are pretty bullet proof. |
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TomS_
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Yep, console server.
Its a 2811 terminal server bundle (theres a Cisco part number for it, something along the lines of 2811-16TS). Its basically just a factory shipped combination of a 2811 with a HWIC-16 and 2 high density octal cables.
These new HD octal cables are very green. |
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jza80
join:2005-10-29
Sacramento, CA | reply to TomS_
Looks good to me.
Is the router on the bottom configured as a access server? I see something that resembles a octal cable. |
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