Senior Airman Etheridge, traces and plugs Cat-5 cable into the existing patch panel used by the 49th Civil Engineer Squadron (CES) at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. May 5. A patch panel is used to link communications equipment from one place to another. This patch panel is used by the 49th CES to connect to the Holloman network. The 49th CES recently had new cabling (Cat -6) installed which will increase their network connection speed. Sgt. Frazer and SrA Etheridge transferred their old network connections to their newly installed network connections.SrA Etheridge is an infrastructure technician assigned to the 49th Communications Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Anthony Nelson Jr)