Build a drop/ceiling soffit to drop all the cables into. Then sort and bundle your cables inside the drop ceiling/soffit and bring the bundles down into each rack exactly where you want them.
The "knot" (what i call the point where all the cables cross one another) gets hidden in the drop ceiling and all you see is nice neat bundles going into the racks.
A couple of examples.
This one there is a single long slot in the ceiling along the backs of the racks. There is an open loft above where the cables are so access is easy.
This one has 2X4's in the ceiling so the slots are cut within the stud bays. When the project was done we had a split wood plate made with holes drilled for each bundle. When installed all you saw was wire coming out of holes. You can see the access hatch behind it.
The dead space doesn't have to be in the ceiling. In this photo you can see how we did it with cables ladders and a wall in an attic.
Cables behind the wall:
Neat bundles coming through the wall:
Last edited by Mac Burks (39) on September 17, 2017 06:42.