See http://jason.artoo.net/images/turlock_rack_1.jpg from
http://jason.artoo.net/artoo.html
The top portion is patch panels (with the nice covers over the wire
management keeping it clean looking). Under it you see a large group of
cables going to our switches (3Com, eeyuk, but it was all free from 3Com).
As the post below said, all workstations are terminated behind the patch
panel. We also terminal all telco POTS lines (for analog faxes & modems),
ISDN lines, & T1 lines behind these and run them down to the back of the
routers.
That way, they can easily be patched with 3' & 5' patch cables.
Hey, that makes me think: What lengths do patch cables come in outside the
USA? I'm guessing in meter lengths, but what would a 5ft. or 7ft. patch
cable be? 3ft. ~ 1 meter, so I can get that.
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""Tony van Ree"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Patch panels are the panels that exist in wiring closets. I a number of
places (most of where I work.) the term wiring closet is used for the place
where the patch panels are housed if at all.
>
> Basically a ptch panel is a panel that allows you to put cables from one
socket to another. For example you might have 3 outlets to a workstation
area, these would come back to a patch panel in a wiring closet from there
one socket might be plugged into a switch or hub another might go into
another patch panel connecting two wiring closets then onto a phone system,
a different switch (for redundancy purposes) or what ever.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Teunis,
> Hobart, Tasmania
> Australia
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 17, 2001 at 07:27:42 AM, Sammi wrote:
>
> > Could someone please elaborate on patch panels, or point to some
> > reading.
> > I understand the use of panels when you have your switch/router in,
> > say, rack1 and your devices in rack5, you then have patch panels in
> > rack5 hardwired over to rack1.
> > I'm missing the practicality in other cases:
> > Your router/switches are in rack1 and you have them hooked up to patch
> > panels also in rack1. Why not bypass the patch panels in this case?
> > Wiring closets; you have hubs in the closet, wired to patch panels in
> > the same closet. Again, why not bypass the panels?
> > When a workstation needs to be "punched down", does that mean you need
> > to hardwire a port on the patch panel to the hub, then run a line from
> > workstation to the patch panel? Any info available on the "punch down"
> > methodology?
> >
> > Any clarifications greatly appreciated.
>
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