Chatsworth Products’ Aisle Containment, Wireless LAN, and Cable Management Solutions Recognized for Excellence

Three product sets available from Chatsworth Products (CPI) earned Cabling Innovators Awards in 2024; two of the systems are available under the Chatsworth Products brand name and the third carries the Oberon name. Oberon is a division of Chatsworth Products. The product sets demonstrate not only the diversity of solutions the company offers; they also exemplify the unique needs of communications systems that serve very specific environments or applications.

Elevate Adjustable Containment Solution

The Elevate Adjustable Containment Solution earned a Gold level award in the 2024 Cabling Innovators Awards program. Elevate is optimized for the company’s ZetaFrame Cabinet System. It aligns with ZetaFrame’s cabinet widths, supporting both hot-aisle containment and row-level vertical exhaust duct applications. Elevate’s telescoping design is adaptable, and creates a duct that connects the cabinet to the overhead drop ceiling. This design and capability allows for quick adjustments to the containment, Chatsworth explained when introducing the system.

The Elevate panels are preassembled, which eliminates the need for on-site fabrication of metals or panels, as well as eliminating on-site drilling. A sliding service panel allows access to the cabling infrastructure and other overhead structures, which permits adjustments and repairs with minimal disruption.

The hot-aisle containment system “links two rows of cabinets, forming a sealed pathway that channels hot air from the cabinet tops to an overhead drop ceiling,” the company explains in an application note for the system. “This creates an efficient closed hot air return system. The solution features a telescoping two-piece panel that precisely fits between the cabinet roof and the ceiling, allowing for seamless adjustment to form a duct connecting the ZetaFrame cabinet to the ceiling and eliminating the need for custom modifications on site.”

The system for row-level vertical exhaust “offers a cutting-edge approach to improving data center efficiency through effective hot air management,” Chatsworth adds. “This innovative system is designed for a single row of cabinets, forming a sealed pathway that channels hot air from the tops of the cabinets to an overhead drop ceiling.”

Evolution Cable Management

CPI Evolution Cable Management, which earned a Silver award, enables users to manage high-density copper cabling on open CPI Rack Systems, delivering increased performance to meet today’s data center demands. It features easy-to-operate doors with styling that complements the CPI cabinet family, providing interior features to help maximize the capacity and utility of high-density vertical cable management.

Evolution includes plastic T-shaped cable guides (fingers) with openings that align with each rack-mount unit space on the rack. These guides’ rounded edges, and the top of the manager, protect cables as they enter and exit the interior storage space. On double-sided managers, the mid-section panels allow personalized placement of the tool-less and adjustable cable distribution spools and other cable management accessories to effectively route patch cords. The movable mid-section kits can be positioned for a 50/50, 40/60, or 60/40 front/rear split of the internal cable management space.

Vertical managers are available in single-sided, double-sided, and combination configuration in five widths and three heights. Combination managers have cable management fingers in the front and cable rings in the back. Fiber segregation kits, available as accessories, allow users to create a dedicated internal channel for fiber cabling. Another accessory, the cable lashing bar kit, anchors premises cables closer to the mid-sections to increase capacity.

1075 Series Wi-Tile Ceiling Enclosures

Oberon, a division of Chatsworth Products, offers the Wi-Tile Ceiling Enclosures 1075 Series, which earned Gold-level honors in the Cabling Innovators Awards program. Designed for use in behavioral health applications, the 1075 series feature a ligature-resistant design on dome door models. A screw-activated latching mechanism secures the enclosure to the hard-lid ceiling surface. Smooth bezel and rounded corners minimize points of sustainable attachment, along with an impact-resistant dome and locking door to secure equipment.

The enclosures enable optimal wireless coverage by enabling network owners to position equipment where it delivers the best coverage. They physically secure and conceal wireless equipment and associated network components. The internal swing-down mounting plate, included with dome-door options, simplifies wireless equipment installation, maintenance, and migration.

The dome door is virtually transparent to wireless signals, which enables the aesthetic benefit of concealing wireless access points. A firestop grommet is included, allowing cable egress/ingress while maintaining a plenum-rating when used in that space.

The 1075 series enclosures address Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA) procedures by allowing access to the wireless equipment without the need to lift the ceiling tile. This helps eliminate the possible spread of airborne contaminants.

Wireless AP-specific door options are available, and doors are interchangeable to support technology changes. The enclosures’ textured, powder-coat finish delivers a professional appearance.