Yes. The main reasons why we started doing home runs was because of $$, time, and troubleshooting.
It's definitely a lot cheaper in material costs to run one long cable than to have to purchases patch panels if there were no patch ports open. It saves time because running 1 fifty foot cable takes a smaller amount of time than having to label 2-4 cables and run them separately between patch points. And trobuleshooting is easier because if you don't get link you only have to look at one cable where with patching it's all of those cables and patch ports until you find the problem.
The advantage I see with not doing home runs if ut's arranged smartly any dummy with minimal effort can do the same cabling. But therein lies the catch. The cabling environment has to be really user friendly to say.
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