Let’s use a guitar pedal to visualise things ... and you effectively choose the order of effects with your patch cables at the front. These patch bays are called ‘un-normalled’ patch ...

Although swapping a Cat-5e patch cable with a Cat-7 one between ... Category 7, 7A and 8 cables use even stricter noise shielding than Cat-6A in order to bump the spectral bandwidth up to 600 ...