I’m planning on a 22u rack in this space and was wondering how folks typically connect the CAT6 cables in this panel. Would you drill a hole at the bottom of the door and pull all the cables out, or take off the door entirely and have the rack in front of it?
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Treat the home network panel as another rack.
Get a patch panel in the server rack and then run a bundle of cables from there to the network panel and plug into a patch panel there.
Neatly tie the cables with velcro cable ties, or cable ties (but that’s less fashionable these days). I’d buy pre-made, others would custom make them to the perfect length to make it prettier
Look at r/cableporn for inspiration, lacing a bundle of cables can be a beautiful thing.
I would take the door off and put the rack in front, if you can make it work. I would also get a rack with caster wheels to make it easy to move it if I needed to do something in the cabinet.
note sure a 22u rack will fit in that wall cut out space, or that space in the wall is like a wiring closet, so my comments may not be truly relevant or not.
i have a 24u (half-rack) in my basement office. i put 72 ports worth of patch panel into the wall and that’s where all the house wall-ports feed into (i like hardwire, not a big fan of wifi). right below it is a 48 port gigabit switch which is strictly a client port hub.
http://www.beekerland.com/misc/my_rack_5.jpgin the rack itself, there is a 48 port gigabit switch which handles all the network connections within the rack. http://www.beekerland.com/misc/my_rack_3.jpg
http://www.beekerland.com/misc/my_rack_4.jpg
the two switches talk to each other over a 2-port LAG group.i would resist the urge to take wires directly out of the wall and go directly into the rack. whether your connect from the rack to the wall is into a patch panel or switch, you want that connection to be via Cat-6 patch cables. that way you’re terminating your cable runs to a fixed point at the wall. hope this helps.
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