Through coupler panels for master patch panel

If you can think of a more appropriate newsgroup please give me a pointer.

Considering tidying up several racks of various switches, servers, ip kvm's,
san, etc with some form of master patch panel. To have all cabling going
back to one of the following:-

1. Master patch panel - switch, kvm & san points presented.
2. Cabling from several racks to have their own secondary patch panels
terminated next to master.

Have been looking at cat6 through coupler patch panels to make it simple to
add/remove/replace or rip out and upgrade later on (as we are looking to
move the server room at some point but want to make things more straight
forward for now)

Question is: Do through coupler panels with certified cable lose much in
signal quality compared to a standard krone'd patch panel? We are using
gigabit nics/switches. The cable between panels is likely to be ready made
utp solid core length's factory terminated fed into the rear through
coupler. The patching likely to be ready made stranded. Cat6 or higher is
what were looking at.

Distances for solid core cable are only upto 12m and the patching to be upto
2m

 

I have two rows of racks with one behind the other. Ther rear one has a small
patch panel and the cables comming from the rear of it go into the rear of a
larger patch panel in the front rack. I even matched the numbers from the back
panel to the front (#1 goes to #1, #2 goes to #2). The main switches/routers are
in the front rack.

I haven't seen any problems with mine, but you have to use quality products and
do a good job of punching the cables in. So I don't think a guy should get too
carried away with it. I suspect the more connections you create to more loss
you may cause. Use "factory" cables as much as possible instead of putting ends
on cables yourself.

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Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft, or
anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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We are looking to do it with through coupler patch panels - ones where you
plug a rj45 in both sides of the patch and so there's no punching involed.

 

Sounds alright to me
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Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft, or
anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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