Patching FireWire? - I'm working on a project that needs just that and I'm fiddling about with one of these - it is quite elegant - sixteen 6-pin IEEE1391 couplers mounted on a 1u panel with cable management bar - bear in mind that even 400Mbps FireWire will only run (at best) about ten metres and going via a patch panel means you probably don't want more than three metres either side of the panel. I'll blog how well it does when I've got it in.