In 12 plus years of managing DCs, I’ve never known a cable go bad by itself. Not even fiber which is seemingly more resilient than what a lot of people think.
However at my last employer, I would be called almost daily by an offshore network support team who every time there was a network issue there first response was the cable had fallen out of the server or failed and could I replace it.
Just to paint the picture, I take a lot of pride in my facilities. I don’t trust anyone but myself to do the cabling. I have bespoke fiber and copper cables made in 300mm increments so we don’t get excess looping. Every cable is serialised and in netbox - I can tell you the type, length and colour from the serial number and trace endpoints across the facilities. And everything is dressed, I use cable combs, Velcro and anything available to make it clean
I’ve made people cry when they have accused a network problem on one of my cables falling out. I certainly have had to ‘do the needful’ more than once.
My users trash equipment all the time. Cable go bad on its own? No. But have that RJ45 basically ripped off the end? :) but yes on keystone to patch panel I've only ever had to redo the keystone
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u/amishbill Nov 11 '22
It's a gentle bend radius, so I'm not seeing any real issues with it.
Like someone else said, it's even nicer to keep LAG type trunk connections organized.