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Chapter 13
Cabling Devices
This chapter identifies a number of commonly-used cabling installation and management devices
which may be used to facilitate easy network troubleshooting, installation, and expansion.
Cable management devices are those pieces of equipment which allow the organization of cables and
networking hardware into well-defined and easily modified groups. Good use of the cable
management devices described in this chapter can greatly aid future changes to the cabling plant or
troubleshooting operations, and can help speed the process of locating and repairing cable problems.
The three types of cable management devices treated in this section are those used for hardware
mounting, cable termination, and facility cable management. Hardware mounting equipment
provides centralized locations where networking devices such as hubs and routers or other cable
management devices may be placed. Cable termination equipment provides easy to use endpoints for
facility cabling and access to the cabling by users and end stations. Facility cable management devices
are those used to divide cabling into specific groups or separate cables and groups from one another.
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