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Patch Panels vs. Cross Connects
Overview With a slide rule, a pencil, and some sheets of paper, you can make all of your calculations (as long as you don't need to have significant numbers beyond the decimal point). With a scientific calculator you define your significant places to the right of the decimal point. The slide rule provides you with old technology and is as good as the hands that use it. The calculator is the same, but it offers more or expanded technological functionality. This can be the same argument used to define the differences between cross connects and patch panels or interconnects. Modular patch panels have a cost, density, performance, and administration advantage over punchdown cross connects when used on a rack for high-speed data applications. Basically there are two methods for terminating twisted pair cable within the Telecommunications Closet (TC): patch panels are typically used for rack-mounting and cross connects are typically used for wall-mounting. Patch panels are almost always used in an interconnect configuration that uses only an equipment cord between the panel and the LAN equipment.
| Publisher | Tyco Electronics Corporation | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | August 2003 | Downloads | 17 |
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