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Comment by Osvaldo Bezerra de Melo on March 1, 2011 at 15:28

Ahh the cabling in the top of rack and patch panel of 1RU high density and 1 RU cable manager, in the cross connect i use angular patch panel 2 RU.

Comment by Osvaldo Bezerra de Melo on March 1, 2011 at 15:24

Micah, Good morning,

Here in the datacenter we design a infraestructure with 1200 horizontal UTP and 576 fiber SAN with the cross connect in 2 - 42 RU one of fiber and other UTP, front and back to acomodate horizontal UTP because the space was the problem here, underfloor we put 6 ZDA to delivery in the EDA to the Blades IBM Power, DMX EMC, Library, the infraestructure its very funcional and the downtime its zero this project have 1 year, today im design a infraestructure to 120 - 44 RU and Cross connect in 18 - 58 RU Knurr, 2 patch cords (server>x-connect>swich) for me its a very good layout because i have the under floor very clean and i reduce the cost of OPEX in the future, good chat!

 

Comment by Micah Sameth on February 28, 2011 at 18:00

Long story short - this data center is now in production - we went with the following design:

* All Ethernet cabling is "1 patch cable away" from set of bay switches.
* Unless the vlan is supporting iscsi SAN data. Then the connectivity is patched (3 patchcables) to the "storage bay" that has centralized switches and SAN storage modules.
* The centralized cross-connect was therefore reduced in size to 2 42RU frames with about 600 horizontal patchpanel interfaces.
* Any other carrier style circuit (originating from meet-me-room, cable vault, etc) that needs to terminate in our bays would be cross-connected through this frame.
* Great effort was taken to minimize the number of patches to reduce failure points, human error, and length of channel...

Thanks for your response....

Comment by Osvaldo Bezerra de Melo on February 28, 2011 at 17:06

3 Patch cords it´s the bether solution in your opinion? (switch, X-connect and server), because for me it´s a very good solution for data center, you agree? 

Comment by Micah Sameth on May 25, 2010 at 23:48

Any suggestions in building a "centralized CAT6A" switching cross-connect frame for a 5000 sq. ft data center? This is to replace "top of rack" or "end of bay" style topologies...