I'm looking for a source/model/etc for fiber patch panels, which are similar to those found in a comm room/meet me room/etc. I think these might be called "distribution panels".
Specifically, one designed to be mounted in a 2-post rack, with the fixed plant cable/splicing all happening in the rear, and the patching all happening in the front, and no need to unmount/move the patching in the front if some splicing work needs to occur in the rear. That way, the outside plant people can do their work in the rear without having to deal with patches in the front. So far, almost everything I've seen tends to be either cassette-based, where you do all the terminations and then somehow mount that in a rack, but if you have to gain access to the splices again, you have to pull the whole cassette out, OR the style where the entire splice tray and connectors slide out the front - in which case you have to leave enough slack or otherwise pay special attention to the patching for the slide-out function to work after you have several patch cables plugged in. An ebay search for "adc fiber distribution panel" gives me some examples of what I'm looking for, but they aren't exactly plentiful and I also want to use something consistent. -- - Forrest
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