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2 DavidHallett 1 Patch-By-Exception was originally brought out by Krone, however, other data cabling product vendors are also adopting this concept in their product line.
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3 Traditionally, comms (mainly telephones) was patched by running jumper wires between two IDC blocks, and before then was done either by soldering jumper onto tags or wirewrapping onto thin posts using a wire wrap tool. Data patching was done using a length of patch cord with the appropiate data connection plugs on each end, nowdays, it is RJ-45, but is not limited to that.
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5 Both methods of patching had their merits, which included costs (both capital and maintainence), space requirements, usablity, and visual appearence.
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8 Patch-by-Exception is designed to have the tidiness and cost savings of a jumper type patch panel, but also have the flexibilty and ease of adds/moves/changes of traditonal data patch panel.
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10 Disconnect blocks are used so that when a Patch-By-Exception patch cord is plugged in, the jumper patch has been disconnected and is no longer an active patch. This means a premises can be patched using the appropiate jumper cable, but if changes needs to be made (very handy for temporary situations) then a special patch cord can be inserted between two IDC blocks to make that patch active.