vertical/horizontal cable mgt suggestions 3

[fthomas1973]

We are in the process of planning a re-organization of our data center and would like to clean up the cables. I really like the products that panduit has but I cannot tell if they are compatible with our APC Netshelters. Does anyone have any experience with using the vertical cable management products with a enclosed server rack rather than a center mount rack? I would appreciate any resources to aid in this!

Frank

 

[Jtodd]

I know Chatsworth has a line of enclosed cabinet wire management products. I've not used them, but have looked at them. They look decent. I think Panduits got some stuff too. Again, I haven't used it either.

Justin T. Clausen
Physical Layer Implementation
California State University, Monterey Bay

 

[bhornberger]

With all of our deployments, be it racks or cabinets, we use Hommaco H & V cable managemnet.

Check out Anixter.

CR-93S-2B D-Rings

and

FCM-19-1XL Interbay Organizer.

 

[jerryreeve]

I have used the flextray product and it went in easily and looked sharp also.

http://www.flextray.com/

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JerryReeve
Communications Systems Int'l
com-sys.com

 

[bhornberger]

Flex Tray is not bad for raised floor cabling. Need Fishpaper to protect wires and such when you waterfall over the edges. We tend to use Telco standard ladder racks for applications overhead, B-Line stuff. More on the lines of what you see in major colocation facilites.

brent

 

[AvayaNovice]

Yeah... I'd stick with ladder rack wherever possible. Flextray is cool for navigating around stuff, or raised floors... snaketray is an option as well, but I find myself leaning to ladder rack in most situations. It can support the bundle weight, it can support bundles being pulled (flext tray tends to be a little flimsy) and it also has a lot more integrity than other products. Of course, that's only helpful getting you to the cabinet. For inside the cabinet itself... I'd stick with panduits cable management products. I'm not sure specifically what you're looking for, maybe more specifics would help.

 

[grundy]

We are now reasearching ladder racks too. Needs to support approx 175 runs total. Any thoughts? The ceiling is going to be open so I have a feeling the electrcians are going to run on it too.

We checked out an office today with a powertray and had flexconduit running right next to the voice/data?

 

[Jtodd]

In a data center I would stick with standard ladder type cable tray. Chatsworth, et. al. Should be plenty of option for connecting with cabinets.

Justin T. Clausen
Physical Layer Implementation
California State University, Monterey Bay