Patent ID: 7996190

Claim:
A method of identifying cabling for a system that includes a plurality of components, the method comprising: identifying a placement of the plurality of components in at least one enclosure, using a virtual representation by determining cabling attributes, determining cabling connectors, and determining cabling terminators using a computer; creating a three-dimensional cabling routing layout for the virtual representation from a first component to a second component, based on the placement using the computer, the three-dimensional cabling routing layout including a first axis, a second axis, and a third axis, wherein creating the cabling routing layout includes concurrently routing a first cable route from the first component and routing a second cable route from the second component until the first and second cable routes meet within a common container within the at least one enclosure, wherein the routing is from one point to another point within the enclosure such that the first and second cable routes meet within the common container when the first and second cable routes include the same first and second axis and connect along the third axis; and identifying the cabling based on the cabling routing layout using the computer, wherein the identifying includes calculating a distance between each of the points.