On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:19:50AM -0400, Brandon Applegate wrote:
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Positively Optimistic wrote: http://www.cecommunication.com/pages/cablemgmtproducts.html
I have no affiliation with them nor do I even have any - but they do look nice. They claim to not block blade swaps or fan tray removal.
If you notice about half the pics/links posted - folks have ALL cabling leaving the 6500 to one side. If you don't do this, you must disconnect cables to get the fan tray out. The folks fanning to both sides are either ignorant or overly optimistic (no pun intended WRT your email address) :)
Also in line with this, make sure the cables are bundled per-card, leaving a service loop big enough to be able to pull the line card out all the way without disconnecting the cables. This allows you to swap a line card and then move the cables one-by-one to the new card without losing track of where each cable connects.