It doesn’t take many years for the cabling in a moderately sized server room to become a maintenance nightmare. Some racks I’ve worked with have become so full of network cabling and power cords that ...

How do you handle getting Cat 5E (or I guess Cat 6) from your servers to the core switch? Just straight cable runs in the ceiling/under the floor? Patch panels? Or something else? Basically I want to ...

Fig. 1: Nylon bristles can be pushed aside to permit wires to pass into the rack from the switch. Fig. 2: The bristles cover the opening, keeping the rack cleaner. Selling IP-based products helps keep ...

I see that as more of an aesthetic question. Is there a higher-up who'll object to the current method you use? Personally, I only use short cables when I know I'll never need to move them again or ...