Then you could have bought 4-6" Cat 5e/6a pre-made patch cables to connect in the majority of your patch panel ports. The only cables that would traverse through the cable mgmt panel would be longer cables to the servers in your rack.
I have a similar Cisco switch as your 24 port. I am not fan of how they arranged all the ports at the right side of the enclosure. Why not make the 24p one row along the top (or bottom), like the 48p with the 2nd row removed? It would be a lot easier for cable mgmt.
The reason its arranged like that is because it started as 1 switch and 1 patch panel, and slowly evolved, so its not ideal, but I am fairly happy with the outcome
If I could re-rack it all, I might make some changes. But that means turning everything off, and I'm not sure when, if ever, I want to do that
I had the patch panels above a collection of switches in both the MDF and IDF closet. About a year in I rearranged it to the more common interleaved switches and panels, mostly just to make it look a bit cleaner.
I moved from 10g to 40g for switch interconnects in a few places, as well as used the fiber I installed to do 10g to most of the desktops, etc. Fun stuff for sure!
I noticed this as well. The patch panels seem only to bring some wire to the front of the rack, only to immediately send the patched wire toward the back of the rack again.
1. 24p Patch Panel (Odd ports of switch) 2. 48p Switch 3. 24p Patch Panel (Even ports of switch) 4. 1u Cable Mgmt
Then you could have bought 4-6" Cat 5e/6a pre-made patch cables to connect in the majority of your patch panel ports. The only cables that would traverse through the cable mgmt panel would be longer cables to the servers in your rack.
I have a similar Cisco switch as your 24 port. I am not fan of how they arranged all the ports at the right side of the enclosure. Why not make the 24p one row along the top (or bottom), like the 48p with the 2nd row removed? It would be a lot easier for cable mgmt.