Network patch panel planning
To buy the right patch panel for your needs, you first need to know what those needs are. The original term patch came from telephone and radio studios, where standby equipment could be quickly patched in if something failed using patch cords and patch panels like those used in telephone switchboards. Patch panels come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes, but for the most part there are three distinct types of patch panels, which all of them fall under. Twisted-pair copper patch panels are built to a certain Ethernet specification, such as Cat 5e, Cat 6, or Cat 6a, and though they are backwards compatible, use different gauges of copper w.
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