Cat5e Patch Panel

Devices of different types, such as a switch connected to a computer, router or switch are connected with patch cords. A cable connection (cable or patch cord sometimes) is an electrical or optical cable used to connect ("patch-in") an electronic or optical device to another for signal routing.
Patch cables and patch cords are flexible cables that are terminated at both ends with a plug and used to interconnect circuits. These men / men cables and cords are used with patch panels, groups of ports that connect lines between communications and electronic devices. The son of connection are usually produced in several different colors so as to be easily recognizable and are relatively short, perhaps no more than two meters.
There are many types of cables and patch cords. The choices include Cat 3, Cat 5, Cat 6, coaxial, triaxial and twisted pair and even more often known products such as cables for the microphone and headphone extension cable.
Patch cords are often made of coaxial cables, with a positive or "hot" signal carried through a shielded core, and negative electrical ground or earthed return connection carried through a wire mesh that surrounds the nucleus. Each cable end is connected to a connector, so that the cord can be plugged in. Types of connectors may vary widely, particularly with adapting cables. Patch cords can be as short as 3 inches or 8 inches, to connect stacked components, or route signals through a patch bay, or as much as twenty feet or 6 m or more in length of cable snake. With the increased length, the cables are usually thicker and / or done with more protection, to avoid signal loss and introduction of radio frequency interference and unwanted HUM (electromagnetic).
The son of connection can be:
aec The son to a driver with, for example, the banana connectors
aec coaxial cables using BNC connectors
aec Ethernet Cat5, Cat5e, Cat6 cables or using "RJ-45" with connectors or TIA/EIA-568-A TIA/EIA-568-B wiring
aec The fiber optic cables
A guy infamous optical fiber cables that are labeled under patch cords are fiber optic patch cords. These fiber optic patch cords are increasingly used to transmit telecommunications signals that traditionally copper patch cords in the network. Compared to traditional copper cables, fiber optic cable characteristics over the operating speed to 10 gigabits, wider bandwidth, which means that it is with a great capacity to transport signals over the transmission distance, improving the environment, no noise, no radios, and easier to maintain.
Usually, fiber optic patch cable structure is as follows: fiberglass in the center with a coating on it, this is called the "core" around key individuals proposed for various other materials make cables with different characteristics, for example, more tension-resistant, waterproof, and so the outermost layer is called "jacket" of the cable is usually PVC, and there are different standards, for example, Riser, Plenum, OFNR, ofnp, etc. The most commonly used for the manufacture of cables fiber patch cords are 0.9 mm outside diameter or 3 mm outer diameter, or 2 mm in diameter. 2 mm outer diameter is most commonly used in North America, they look more intelligent, although they work the same as 2 mm and 0.9 mm over.
The types are simplex fiber optic patch cord and duplex fiber optic patch cable, cord means that simplex patch cord consists of a single fiber cable, a cord duplexes can be treated as two simplex set side by side.