My company have a server room. As you might be thinking there are lots of racks on which various types of routers, switches, firewalls are placed. Many a times I have noted almost all the cables goes from the wall outlet to the patch panel and then a small cable from the patch panel goes to the actual network switch. I always used to have the doubt about this setup. Can you explain me this? I mean why such setup is created? What is the patch panel and what all are the purposes that patch panel serves in the network diagram?
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