[94546] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Boyle)
Thu Jan 25 04:08:49 2007
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:07:49 -0500
To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>,
nanog@merit.edu
From: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070124192357.I51695@prime.gushi.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 07:30 PM 1/24/2007, you wrote:
>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?
Someone else already mentioned Tecra Tools. We use Tecra. However, we
use Specialized too.
http://www.specialized.net/ecommerce/shop/seriesmaster.asp?series_id=Cable+Lacing+Tools
Our guys prefer the Chicago style straight blade needles since the
curved tools are too unwieldy when dealing with high cable density.
Here is a picture from one of our datacenters:
http://www.tellurian.com/california/img_8065_std.jpg
We use lacing at all of our facilities. As far as I'm concerned, it
is the only way to go.
-Robert
Tellurian Networks - Global Hosting Solutions Since 1995
http://www.tellurian.com | 888-TELLURIAN | 973-300-9211
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