High-Density cable management system from Tyco

As designers push to increase the density of the cabling infrastructure design, they are realising the current limitations of traditional approaches to both individual products and system design. The new Hi-D cable management system addresses the challenge of how data-centre and building distributor capacity can be grown without increasing costly real estate space. In particular, increasing the port density while maintaining, or decreasing, the required floor space requires a different design approach to traditional cable management systems.

The current design restriction for port capacity on a 42-unit cabinet is 480 ports, while providing a minimum cable management provision of one per third cabinet unit. The Hi-D cable management system can increase capacity by up to 1020 ports per frame.

The Hi-D cable management system is designed in such a way that all patch-cable bend radii are controlled from ports on the angled patch panel through the complete management system. This ensures that the stipulated requirements of ISO/IEC 11801 - that the bend radius should be a minimum of 25 mm for cables with a diameter of less than 6 mm and 50 mm for those over 6 mm - are met.

The heart of this innovative system is the recessed angled 19-inch patch panel and Hi-D corner bracket that guides the patch cords from the front of the panel into the 6- or 12-inch side ducts in a controlled way eliminating the need for horizontal cable management bars. By using this concept, Tyco Electronics maintains the quality of the link while increasing the patch-cable density. The industry standard angled 19-inch panels are designed to accommodate the AMP NETCONNECT SL series connectors, providing the choice for UTP, FTP and STP systems to support data rates of up to 10 Gbit/s.