[146481] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable standards question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Nov 14 14:46:32 2011
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:46:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <A92EAF652EC423438D55C14C60771C87040387C0@exchgsrv.nputilities.local>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Gurtz" <jasongurtz@npumail.com>
> For instance, we ended up with a 23" telco rack filled with 19" equipment
> and 23" to 19" converter panels. General tidiness; a contractor left a
> large splice-box laying on the floor in the midst of a slack-spool instead
> of wall or rack mounting. Another contractor developed a spider's nest of
> wiring in our server room instead of structured cabling. Specifying exact
> rack sizes, specific cable management, mounting locations, etc... would
> have helped a lot. Photos of the specific areas would have helped
> immensely.
This seems like an altogether excellent time for me to remind people about
http://bestpractices.wikia.com
and volunteer it[1] as a place in which to capture these sorts of, among other
things, pictures of installs, both good and bad -- along with notes as to
*why* they are specifically good and/or bad.
Cheers,
-- jra
[1]Yes, it's gotten a bit spammed up; I'll clean it out if you'll use it. ;-)
--
Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII
St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
