Got a question.
Does anyone make patch panels that are built for stranded wire and that will result in a good punch with some strength to it?
I'm looking at building a portable network for LAN games (probably around 500 ports or so).
Right now the switches just get put wherever around the room on tables, and it's somewhat of a messy solution for deployment, troubleshooting, and clean up.
I was thinking of putting all of the switch ports into a road rack, then building differing lengths of remote ports.
What I was thinking was a 24 or 48 port patch panel on each end, all wired up, with some webbing around the whole bundle.
This way I could unroll the patch bundles, and just patch them with a bunch of 1 meter cables to the rack. In the end, no expensive equipment is left around the room all over the place, and all of the switches could be connected via stacking cables, fiber, gig-e over copper, etc. in a static fashion.
I wanted stranded patch panels just so that the runs would be a little more flexible. Would that even matter much since there'd be 24-48 cables per bundle and it's unlikely to be flexed much in the first place?
Does anyone make patch panels that are built for stranded wire and that will result in a good punch with some strength to it?
I'm looking at building a portable network for LAN games (probably around 500 ports or so).
Right now the switches just get put wherever around the room on tables, and it's somewhat of a messy solution for deployment, troubleshooting, and clean up.
I was thinking of putting all of the switch ports into a road rack, then building differing lengths of remote ports.
What I was thinking was a 24 or 48 port patch panel on each end, all wired up, with some webbing around the whole bundle.
This way I could unroll the patch bundles, and just patch them with a bunch of 1 meter cables to the rack. In the end, no expensive equipment is left around the room all over the place, and all of the switches could be connected via stacking cables, fiber, gig-e over copper, etc. in a static fashion.
I wanted stranded patch panels just so that the runs would be a little more flexible. Would that even matter much since there'd be 24-48 cables per bundle and it's unlikely to be flexed much in the first place?
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