This question is for a small business, so not enterprise but not for home networking either. I was tasked with cleaning up the area where the server is at and management bought a wall mounted 6U rack with a 24 port patch panel, 24 port managed switch, rack mount PSU and a tray to hold the modem and firewall.
The previous setup was wiring coming down from the ceiling and plugging into a 3x 8 port switches sitting in a wiring nest on the desk next to the server. Wires are going directly out to the machine floor, running down the electrical boxes hanging from the 16/20 ft (depending on where) ceiling to plug directly into the CNC machines themselves.
I'd like to take the cables plugged into the three 8 port switches and punch them down into the patch panel and then use 6 inch patch cables to run from the PP to the switch in order to clean it up instead of just plugging them into the 24 port switch. All the extra cabling is wrapped up on the machine end of things in case we move things around out on the floor when adding additional machines, something we've been doing lately.
I'm unsure which wiring scheme I'm supposed to use going from the PP directly to a machine, A or B. Everything I've looked up on line, and maybe I'm not wording it correctly in the search, is going from PP to wall port and then machine but I can't do that because of the way the machine floor is laid out, there is no junction boxes with network ports, it's just electrical boxes.
With going directly to the CNC machines and not to a wall plate, do I use A or B on the patch panel?
Thanks.
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