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Mismatching jacks

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tchism465

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I was wondering I have a situation with cat 6 cable and a Siemon cat 5e patch panel. This system is using all siemon jacks (xm sm t568b). I assuming the cat 6 cable is for future change over. My question does it matter if you mismatch the jacks? I can't find siemon jacks locally and want to use levition jacks with this siemon hd 5 patch panel, will this work?
Thanks!
 
You can use any brand of jacks as long as they will physically fit into the panel. Mixing Cat 6 and Cat 5e is also fine, but keep in mind that including a Cat 5e component into a path brings that whole path down to Cat 5e. This may or may not matter depending upon your run lengths.
 
Thank you for your response. This type patch panel has a 110 punch down on backside no need for jacks. So I will use whatever cat 6 jacks i can find locally. They are trying to keep workstations/cables cat 6 until they change all things over to the future cat 6 system.
Thanks again!
 
Ah OK. In that case, since the panel is Cat 5e, then everything going through that panel is technically Cat 5e.

That being said, the panel doesn't make much of a difference in the real world except for certification purposes. The quality of the punch-down job will make a bigger difference.
 
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