A technician needs to wire a patch panel to a keystone jack for a new office installation. The office's existing cabling is terminated to the T568B standard. To maintain consistency within the network, which wiring standard should the technician apply to the new drop?
Create a custom wiring scheme with different color orders to enhance signal clarity.
Terminate both the patch panel and the keystone jack using the T568B wiring scheme.
Terminate both ends using the T568A wiring scheme.
Use T568A on the patch panel and T568B on the keystone jack to improve cable performance.
To avoid mismatched terminations and possible crossover connections, technicians should follow the same wiring convention already used in the infrastructure. Because the existing runs are wired to T568B, the new patch-panel and keystone terminations should also use T568B. T568A would also work electrically, but mixing schemes complicates documentation and can introduce errors. A mixed A-to-B termination intentionally creates a crossover cable, which is unnecessary on modern Auto-MDI/MDIX equipment, and an unrecognized custom color scheme does not follow any approved standard.
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