Sorry for a possibly dumb question. So I'm getting ready to wire my house up for gigabit in the next few days, and one guide I came across mentioned a patch panel being optional. That got me trying to ...
Server --> Patch panel port 25-48 in server rack --> Patch panel in switch 2 rack --> Switch2 We're using a pair of Cisco 6513 switches with 10GbE trunks between them and 10GbE runs back to the core.