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> OS2 single mode duplex throughout the house, all converging to a trunk which is available in three locations for equipment.

What do you mean by "trunk which is available in three locations"?

Usually cabling is home-run to a single, central patch panel. A cable (fibre, copper) would usually have one end in a room's wall outlet, with the other end at a patch panel: how would you have a cable one end at three locations? Do you have three patch panels? I.e., three hubs, with the room cables going to one hub and then you can have hub-to-hub runs?

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Please avoid the use of the term “hub” here as it already was defined elsewhere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_hub

A switch differs from a hub, a patch panel differs from a hub. Hopefully you haven’t touched one since affordable fast Ethernet switches hit the consumer market.

that's exactly what I have. I have a hub in the attic with a small rack where all the wall runs end up at both rooms' fiber and CAT6A, there's a small 10G switch with PoE there for CAT6A (for APs and RJ45 outlets). There's also a fiber patch panel there where those rooms' ones connect to. Trunk starts there as well, in a fiber rack shelf which goes to the basement. In the attic I patch trunk to walls and the switch. In the basement trunk ends up in another patch panel (a cabinet on the wall) from which I run fibers to the rack with all the equipment. Thing is, that patch panel cabinet on the wall is also hosting another trunk which goes to the garage, where there's a third patch panel (in a cabinet on the wall) from which I'll soon connect to rack(s) there. Eventually, in the basement i'll just patch trunk to trunk so that way i'll just hoist all the network equipment to racks in the garage. By having three hubs like this though, I can do whatever.

In principle it sounds simple, but in practice I got lost in my own way too many times. Just glad that it's over, hahah.

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