A network technician is running new Ethernet drops from office cubicles to the company's wiring closet. The technician wants each horizontal cable run to be permanently terminated in the rack so that help-desk staff can quickly reassign workstations to different switches by moving short patch cords instead of rewiring. Which piece of rack-mounted hardware should the technician install to achieve this centralized termination and flexibility?
The correct choice is a patch panel. A patch panel provides a field-terminating point for each structured-cabling run and exposes those terminations as modular RJ-45 ports on the front of the rack. Short patch cords can then connect any port to a switch, making moves, adds, and changes simple without disturbing the permanent cabling. An unmanaged switch, router, or wireless access point actively forwards traffic but does not provide fixed cable terminations for large numbers of horizontal runs.
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