[94532] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sysadmin@citynetwireless.net)
Wed Jan 24 21:54:09 2007
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:39:36 -0600
From: sysadmin@citynetwireless.net
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070124192357.I51695@prime.gushi.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Here's some nice lacing on our FLM150 rack:
http://fiveforty.net/mux/Picture_010.jpg
http://fiveforty.net/mux/Picture_013.jpg
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 07:30:06PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> This seems a wee bit off topic, but definitely relates to network
> operations (somewhere below layer 1) and I can't think of a better place
> to ask.
>
> Upon leaving a router at telx and asking one of their techs to plug in the
> equipment for me, I came back to find all my cat5 cables neatly tied with
> some sort of waxed twine, using an interesting looping knot pattern that
> repeated every six inches or so using a single piece of string. For some
> reason, I found this trick really cool.
>
> I have tried googling for the method, (it's apparently standard, I've seen
> it in play elsewhere), and for the type of twine, but had little luck. I
> was wondering if any of the gurus out there would care to share what this
> knot-pattern is actually called, and/or if there's a (illustrated) howto
> somewhere?
>
> -Dan "Tired of getting scratched up by jagged cable ties" Mahoney
>
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