As someone who has done all the things in computing... (dev, ops, dev ops, networking, datacenter, security, voip, on-call, etc.) actually doing a cabinet from scratch I've never done (somehow always ended up in the hands of other people). But I've seen many cabinets that existed for years and as you can imagine... not always neat. So as you probably already know the real issue is: how to keep it neat over the years. You are using velcrro tape, color coding cables and the length are pretty good at first glance and seems like the cabinets have space on the sides (some don't ! sadly !). You know something I've never seen in a cabinet where I was first the time: a legend on the cabinet on what the color coding means. And very rarely a map of where the wall sockets are that match with the numbers in the cabinet. Which would be the part which is easiest to maintain, because it gets the least amount of change, those are the cables in the walls. PS Please leave enough cables in the cabinet so you can actually continue the color coding scheme when doing small changes.
The county school board's IT department I work for has guidelines in place for what color means what so it is easy to distinguish for sure. I do like leaving a legend for the newbies tho. That's a great idea. And yeah, likely we will leave some extra cables in a couple of the IDFs here for the reason you mentioned. As for the neatness, I don't even want to think about that. I just have this vid as a memory of when it looked awesome. Hehehehe
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As someone who has done all the things in computing... (dev, ops, dev ops, networking, datacenter, security, voip, on-call, etc.) actually doing a cabinet from scratch I've never done (somehow always ended up in the hands of other people).
But I've seen many cabinets that existed for years and as you can imagine... not always neat.
So as you probably already know the real issue is: how to keep it neat over the years.
You are using velcrro tape, color coding cables and the length are pretty good at first glance and seems like the cabinets have space on the sides (some don't ! sadly !).
You know something I've never seen in a cabinet where I was first the time: a legend on the cabinet on what the color coding means. And very rarely a map of where the wall sockets are that match with the numbers in the cabinet. Which would be the part which is easiest to maintain, because it gets the least amount of change, those are the cables in the walls.
PS Please leave enough cables in the cabinet so you can actually continue the color coding scheme when doing small changes.
The county school board's IT department I work for has guidelines in place for what color means what so it is easy to distinguish for sure. I do like leaving a legend for the newbies tho. That's a great idea. And yeah, likely we will leave some extra cables in a couple of the IDFs here for the reason you mentioned.
As for the neatness, I don't even want to think about that. I just have this vid as a memory of when it looked awesome. Hehehehe