In the structured cabling system, a complete connectivity comprises of cable, patch panel, wall outlet and patch cord supporting all LAN applications. Numbers of cables come into or go out, in this ...

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 ...

How do you handle getting Cat 5E (or I guess Cat 6) from your servers to the core switch? Just straight cable runs in the ceiling/under the floor? Patch panels? Or something else? Basically I want to ...

Automating an enterprise’s switch upgrade using Python and open-source tools saved time, money, and human errors compared to doing it manually. Automation can make a big difference in repetitive ...

Remember that one time the cable you grabbed from the box was exactly the right length for the run from patch panel to server shelf? What if every patch cable you picked up were just the right length?