Fiber in Cable Management Arm

I'm aware of the existing debate on cable management arms. For those people who DO use cable management arms, do you put Fiber into the arms? It looks like I'm fine on minimum bend radii, but am looking for additional opinions before I do anything.

-Troy

Solution 1:

I also have fibre in the management arms, havent experienced any problems yet.

(side-note: the management arms are soon going to be reconfigured as cargo for empty trash cans, they are killing my airflow)

Solution 2:

Where we need cable-arms we very frequently use OM2/3 MM fibres with them for FC traffic, so long as you're careful I don't see there being a problem.

Solution 3:

Fibre cable is stronger than you might think. You are almost certainly all right to do this. As always, test first.

Solution 4:

This is really pretty easy to figure out.

Find out from the reseller/manufacturer of your fibre cables what the maximum bend radius is. Then find out how far apart the cable runs are when the arm is fully folded shut. If the cable runs would be closer than the bend radius, then you can't run the fibre there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bend_radius

Solution 5:

We've been using fibre in management-arms for some time now with no impact to the performance of the fibre that we can tell.