Avoid the ‘bowl of spaghetti’ with the Lite Trace Tool

Whether you’re looking at something as complex as building a new data centre, or something as simple as reorganising an existing patch panel, Lite Trace is for you. Lite Trace is an ideal solution that will save you time and money in the future while bringing you the most innovative—yet simple—industry leading solution.

We’ve all seen that classic poor cable management scenario, where everything starts off looks neat, but after a while it turns into what looks like a ‘bowl of spaghetti’.

This ‘bowl of spaghetti’ is mainly caused by the lack of traceability in the cabling system when you’re adding and moving cables around. It becomes difficult to keep track of which cables come from and go to where, and written records are never updated.

So what do we all do? We grab another patch cable, unplug the port we know and plug it into an empty port on the switch, telling ourselves we’ll fix it when we have time later.

Except we don’t fix it later, and all we’ve done is waste a cable, waste a port on the switch, and create a mess that never gets fixed. This cost us time and money in the future.

Lite Trace is the solution to this problem.

Built into a standard Ethernet patch cable (copper or fibre optic) is an additional pair of micro trace wires, as well as a set of contracts and an LED at each connector/cable. Simply attach a Lite Trace Tool to the contacts in one of the connectors. This powers the circuit, causing both ends to light up, immediately telling you where both ends are connected.

With both ends of the cable obvious to the eye, you can safely and quickly re-patch as needed. This helps you keep everything neat and avoid the dreaded ‘bowl of spaghetti’ disaster.

Lite Trace is a high-quality solution that exceeds all relevant international and local industry standards, covering copper cabling systems (Cat5e, Cat6, Cat6A), fibre optic single mode (OS1, OS2), and multimode (OM1, OM3, OM4) requirements.

Lite Trace works with all standard connector systems and is covered by a lifetime replacement warranty.

If you want a cabling plant that stays neat and tidy because it’s easy to maintain, Lite Trace patch cables from Ez-Cabling is for you.