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 ...
Server --> Patch panel port 25-48 in server rack --> Patch panel in switch 2 rack --> Switch2 We're using a pair of Cisco 6513 switches with 10GbE trunks between them and 10GbE runs back to the core.
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 ...