Re: terminate patch panel.

Unless the customer wanted the cable plant "in order", I'd put on all
the wire management hardware and just start nailing cables down,
regardless of station location.

Humm.. I would think most people would want to put them in order. If
there are 40 locations some with 2 data ports some with 1. I would think
that you would want 1-D1, 1-D2, 2-D1, 2-D2, 3-D1 in order on the patch
panel. I guess you could just put them in any old order and label them,
but I don't know if I would go for that..

I'd trim cables to length after
routing them over/through/under/whatever the cable management
mechanism then punch them down. I took a lot of pride in making my
patch panels and the wire bundle leading to them look very very clean.

Yes, I want to make it look clean too. Trying to suck the knowledge out
of people who have done this longer then I have.

So, you route, trim all cables and then go through and strip, punch each
one?

For me, the wire managment part (chatsworth, should of got the leviton
one which mounts on the back of the patch panel) gets in the way of
punching down.. So, I am planning on getting all the cables in order
where they need to appear in the patch panel.. trimming them to size
with the mgmt bar on.. Take the mgmt bar off and then strip, and punch
down each one.. This is after they are already cut to length..


Once the cable were punched down, I'd break out my DataLite and ID
each cable, then label and test the whole mess.

I might label them after I trim them all down but before I punch them..

Thanks for the reply.

-jr
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