Patent ID: 7000784

Claim:
An integrally molded rack-mountable manager for managing the routing of cables along a network rack supporting an electrical component having distinct rows of ports, said manager comprising: an integrally molded pair of front and rear channels having a common base portion having front and rear surfaces for partitioning said front and rear channels; a pair of slotted front side wall portions extending from said front surface of said base portion, and a pair of slotted rear side wall portions extending from said rear surface of said base portion; each of said channels for retaining cables therein and managing the routing of said cables by providing optional routing through said respective channels and slots defined by said slotted sidewall portions thereof; and said integrally molded manager including a rack-mounting portion configured for being connected to a network rack and wherein said slotted side wall portions include a plurality of independently flexible adjacent finger portions defining a plurality of slots therebetween and wherein each of said finger portions terminates in a lip portion suitable for receiving an edge of a cover, wherein a cover is thereby retainable on said side wall portions such that in may be rotated between a first portion wherein said cover substantially encloses the corresponding channel and a second position wherein said cover does not substantially enclose the corresponding channel.