In a nutshell, patch panels get rid of the spaghetti factor. Let's say
that you've got 500 drops coming into a datacenter. Other than the mess of
cables you'd have around every switch, you'd have to search heavily to
figure out which cable is where. When patch pane
>I suggest you look for a book entitled "LAN Wiring". I believe that it's
>now in its second edition.
Thanks for the advice.
The book is indeed in its second edition, not available yet, seems it will be soon and
will be completely up to date; gigabit ethernet, fiber optics, etc.
http://www.am
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
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
, January 17, 2001 at 11:19:39 PM, J Roysdon wrote:
> 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
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