It's a very good practice to put patch panels in the cabinets and to have structured cabling back to central points where the switches are located. It prevents needing to pull a patch cord under the ...

Detailed view of multiple Ethernet cables plugged into a server rack patch panel, used for data networking and IT infrastructure management. Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted ...

Sorry for a possibly dumb question. So I'm getting ready to wire my house up for gigabit in the next few days, and one guide I came across mentioned a patch panel being optional. That got me trying to ...

Most of the Ethernet uses 10GBASE-T and Cat6 cabling and connectors, with some interconnects use fiber optical cable and LC connectors. Unsurprisingly, as this setup grew and grew, [spooky] had to ...