Network Help

[IronPC]

Good Job,

I notice you are only 160 miles away. If you ever come by Wichita, drop in and see me. I have the Computer Fix It stores.

We go up to Kansas every now and then. Might have to stop by

I would still use a patch panel. The in building wiring (The wall hacks to the patch panel) should be terminated into keystones in the wall plate jacks, and a patch panel on the rack end. Then patch cables from patch panel to anything in the rack. Same on the wall plate end (From the jacks to the workstations).

Anyway, that's how I'd do it...

I had planned to use a patch panel, however the additional cost of buying the cables or the time involved in making the individual cables to go between the panel and the switch, along with the additional point of failure outweighed the simplicity of just going straight into the switch. If the network was larger or had more room for growth then I would have definitly went with patch panels.

However if there is some additional benefit that I may be overlooking, please let me know. Thanks for the input.