Designing systems and racks encompasses a wide array of tasks: Adding cables between devices, labeling cables, creating cable reports, creating cable schedules, maintaining a symbol database, rack building, equipment reports, integration or data sharing with other design software like Vectorworks or AutoCAD, power consumption reports and online interactivity. Although it might not seem possible that any one software program would be able to help with all these chores, many of the software solutions on display at NAB this year provide most of the capabilities outlined above.
-Vickie Claiborne, from “Video Digerati,” PLSN, June 2019, page 82. Check out her article for more info on the seven solutions she profiles in her column.
