APC Horizontal Cable Organizer 2U w/pass through holes

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For £70.27 ex-VAT, this kind of APC 2U horizontal cable organiser is a pretty sensible buy if you’re trying to make a rack look (and behave) like a grown-up install. The pass-through holes are the main thing: they help you route patch leads and tidy downlinks without doing the usual “cable spaghetti into the blanking panels” routine. In day-to-day deployment—patching, adding a circuit, moving a node—it tends to save you time because cables sit where you expect them to, and you’re not constantly fighting friction and tangles.

That said, it’s not a miracle worker and I wouldn’t overspend expectations. If you’ve got heavy cabling, thick trunking, or a lot of bulky assemblies that need proper strain relief, this is more of a tidy-and-route aid than a serious cable management system. Also, if your rack is already well-managed or you don’t frequently touch the patching, you may not feel the value. Overall: good for smaller UK server/rack deployments, ISP/office comms closets, or any reseller/customer who cares about serviceability and neat patching—just don’t buy it expecting it to replace a full cable management frame or deeper structured solution.