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Hope to see them soon, Gerald.

I agree with Bill - best is wall mount rack patch panels or rerun the cable. That creates the least mess and least number of splice/connection points.

With that many short cables (and if you have data too) I'd consider using 110 blocks (8 100pr) as the splice point. 66 blocks would be good, but with 700+ pairs of wire, you may not have room to lay them all out before you again run short on cable.

Jack

Qusetion are the cables really short, or is there slack in the overhead you can use? Even cables going toward where you are placing the rack might be reused? :shrug:

The terminations are currently on the second floor, and about half of the cables come in from conduit from the first floor, terminated on 12 port patch panels on the wall. I don't think there is enough slack to do a neat job of bringing the cables to the rack.

I agree with Fletcher, because this is what we've been force to do - reterminate existing cables on 110 block an extend with new segments of cat5. Makes for a tidy splice point.
Mike

I agree 110 block is the best suggestion.
I just had to temporarily move a server room. I Made an 72 cable extension terminated on a patch panel on one end and a 110 block on the other. Ran it 50 feet throught the ceiling, pulled th eold cabled up into the ceiling space and terminated them on the 110 block. Moved servers/switches. to new patchpanel all worked great.

If repulling the cable isn't going to be in the work scope I would use 110 blocks to make a consolidation point. You would probably need 8 110 blocks to do this. You could pull your wire to the new rack location and terminate the patch panels and the 110 blocks, then schedule the cutover at the 110 side when convienent. If you go this route I would suggest testing your new extended cable that runs from the 110 block the patch panels prior to the cutover. It's no fun ripping off 1 data cable then a C4 and another data cable to fix a wiring issue. This way any failures through the whole link will be in either the jacks or on top of the C4 clips.