It's a very good practice to put patch panels in the cabinets and to have structured cabling back to central points where the switches are located. It prevents needing to pull a patch cord under the ...

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 ...

Recent reports of widespread National Security Agency spying and NSA encryption circumvention provide an eye-opener on the vulnerability of data in transit and stored online. Like it or not, the ...