Patch panel and switches

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Hi,

I was wondering if someone could give me some advice/suggestions on how to
organize a floor cabinet with patch panels and switches.
1. Should I have a switch immediately beneath a patch panel so that the
cable drops can be short and easily traced?
2. Should I have all the patch panels and swithes together and use
horizontal and vertical managers?

What method do you guys and ladies use to keep your patch panels and
switches neat? This is a big problem for us because right now it looks like
spaghetti, and cables are hard to trace. Thanks in advance.

Best regards
Sam
 
When I set up a rack, I put switches at the top and patch panels at the
bottom, so I get maximum airflow around the switches. I don't worry a bit
about what patch panel is connected to what switch outlet since I can check
the MAC address table of the switch to find out who's on it. I worry more
about being sure that each tag on the patch panel is properly labeled with
the room number/location that it leads to and that the outlets in each
location are labeled with the port number from the patch panel.

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I was wondering if someone could give me some advice/suggestions on how to
organize a floor cabinet with patch panels and switches.
1. Should I have a switch immediately beneath a patch panel so that the
cable drops can be short and easily traced?
2. Should I have all the patch panels and swithes together and use
horizontal and vertical managers?

What method do you guys and ladies use to keep your patch panels and
switches neat? This is a big problem for us because right now it looks like
spaghetti, and cables are hard to trace.
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Having used both types of arrangements extensively, the only way to
avoid spaghetti cables is to have one switch port for each cable run
and patch them in an organized manner, tie them down and never touch
them again.

Jeff
 
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