I've come to learn that sandwiching switches and horizontal cable mgmt right on top of each other makes it damn hard to get your fingers in there when you need to add/remove a cable on the switch.

Proper management of cables is also critical to industrial applications. On shop floors, cable management supports manufacturing automation and networking solutions. In datacom and telecom ...

the picture above is the way to go if you're doing "cable once." If you're doing over-subscription & patching on demand, horizontal is the way to go. Apologies if you've already covered that in ...