I'm an electrician by trade, but ive done some low voltage work before, anyway I'm trying to figure out patch panels and am having some trouble. If I have an office space with say 4 ports on each data plate, one data, one voice, one fax and one spare port. If for each of these I ran a cat 5e homerun back to the telcom room CAN I tie all 4 of these into the patch panel or MUST the voice/fax get a seperate punchdown block? and can I put an RJ45 connector on them to the front of the patch panel or do they get punched down internally like a 110 block? and if not what exactly would be plugged into the front of the patch panel? like where does the incomming feed get tied into? sorry if theres a lot of questions but I dont want to sub this type of thing out when I know I'd be able to do it myself, any help for these questions or anything else you guys think I should know to install a patch panel would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
