In a small site I am currently building (10 cabinets, 350 sq ft) for disaster recovery I have made one of the cabinets a zero cabinet for the network switch (Cisco 65xx) and have populated it with a patch field to maximize the use of my limited network ports using Carlyle Rapid Cabling Infrastructure (RCI).
Each cabinet is wired for 24 ports and goes back to the zero cabinet, then the switch will be wired with RCI's from the blades into their own patch field on the bottom of the cabinet panels so I can make cross connects within the cabinet.
This has worked well due to budget constraints, not having to bring in an outside contractor to do the work for me and having limited network ports.
It really depends on budget, your switch hardware and the number of ports per cabinet you're looking at running. Like Ken said there are numerous ways to kill this bird but you've made a good start by asking here.
Best of luck.
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