hokatichenci
Gawd
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- Oct 28, 2004
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So as networks expand, you get more and more of those pesky cat5e/cat6/serial/etc cables. Keeping track of which port on what goes to what is helpful, but when you need to do work it is very, very nice to know which cable is what on the switch/patch panel. So far it seems like there are three (two good) options at attaching labels to the ends of a cable:
1) No label at all. Just have cabling matrices that deal with this and pray you never need to do something on the spot.
2) Tape/attach a piece of paper that is tangential to the cable, seems like this is the easiest but it seems like it could get pretty messy with a lot of cables bundled together.
3) Get a label that wraps around the cable so it looks like it is printed directly on it.
I'm more keen on #3 - but googling around it seems like the base investment is over $150 - and you get thousands of labels. I probably need 500-1000 at most, and so not being able to break it down to a cheaper cost kind of sucks. Plus I'd have to make sure to get a program/template to properly align/size as I print them out en masse.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to handle dealing with dozens/hundreds of cables?
1) No label at all. Just have cabling matrices that deal with this and pray you never need to do something on the spot.
2) Tape/attach a piece of paper that is tangential to the cable, seems like this is the easiest but it seems like it could get pretty messy with a lot of cables bundled together.
3) Get a label that wraps around the cable so it looks like it is printed directly on it.
I'm more keen on #3 - but googling around it seems like the base investment is over $150 - and you get thousands of labels. I probably need 500-1000 at most, and so not being able to break it down to a cheaper cost kind of sucks. Plus I'd have to make sure to get a program/template to properly align/size as I print them out en masse.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to handle dealing with dozens/hundreds of cables?