Patch Panels.

[Pensdown]

Do a professional job.

Put a door over them.

I agree

 

[JohnD]

I see your doors have pictures of neat cables painted on them.

Very cunning trick

 

[Pensdown]

www.veryexpensivedoorswithneatcablespaintedonthem.co.uk

 

[holmslaw]

..

 

[JohnD]

Mature Gentlemen's humour.

 

[bernardgreen]

Techparts reply is the best one. (( EDIT only now it has gone because he sneaked in an advert for a company ))

Patch panels allow for the wiring of the building ( work stations etc ) to be cabled to one "side" of the panel and the cabling from the central equipment to be cabled to the other "side" of the patch panel.

Then when IT people have finally decided what has to connect to what they use patch leads to connect things. Allows for changes to the set up without re-routing cables when the IT people realise the errors they made, only the patch cable has to be moved. All the main cables remain fixed.

 

[aptsys]

Holy thread resurrection batman!
Advertising reported.

 

[OwainDIYer]

I thought yellow cables were reserved for crossovers?

 

[electronicsuk]

I thought yellow cables were reserved for crossovers?

Nope. Perhaps an organisation might decide to do this, but it's not a rule, or even any kind of standard practice that I am aware of.

 

[Monkeh]

I thought yellow cables were reserved for crossovers?

No, that's just the colour Belkin, your local excessively overpriced high-street brand of junk, like to use.

I use yellow cables or tags for linking between infrastructure components (router, switches, APs, etc), and blue for WAN side connections. Entirely arbitrary.

 

[electronicsuk]

I thought yellow cables were reserved for crossovers?

No, that's just the colour Belkin, your local excessively overpriced high-street brand of junk, like to use.

I use yellow cables or tags for linking between infrastructure components (router, switches, APs, etc), and blue for WAN side connections. Entirely arbitrary.

I like yellow for PoE, blue for unpowered LAN, and green for uplinks

 

[Monkeh]

I thought yellow cables were reserved for crossovers?

No, that's just the colour Belkin, your local excessively overpriced high-street brand of junk, like to use.

I use yellow cables or tags for linking between infrastructure components (router, switches, APs, etc), and blue for WAN side connections. Entirely arbitrary.

I like yellow for PoE, blue for unpowered LAN, and green for uplinks

Nah, red's PoE, and green is for external runs.

 

[bernardgreen]

And for cables listed under "where on earth does this go ?" Green-yellow

 

[Paul_C]

Seeing as this thread has been bumped up, let's correct this:

Patch panels are simply large numbers of RJ45 sockets.

Despite common modern misapplication of that designation, and despite the fact that even some manufacturers and suppliers who should know better also misuse it, these are not RJ-45 sockets. RJ-45 is something quite different.

 

[Monkeh]

Seeing as this thread has been bumped up, let's correct this:

Patch panels are simply large numbers of RJ45 sockets.

Despite common modern misapplication of that designation, and despite the fact that even some manufacturers and suppliers who should know better also misuse it, these are not RJ-45 sockets. RJ-45 is something quite different.

Oh, boy, don't go there. No matter how large the hammer, you will not succeed in beating the truth into people on this matter.