Exactly what is Structured Cabling?
In recent times voice and data cabling needs have combined. At present, cabling infrastructures are actually made to support voice, data and video together with other building communications services like video conferencing, cable tv and security applications which includes CCTV.
The more common cabling in the UK is UTP or FTP balanced twisted pair cables.
Comms room to the desk top.
Structured Cabling is the cabling infrastructure within a building. This infrastructure in general is composed of a quanity of smaller elements typically called subsystems.
These subsystems include (but are not limited to):
* Backbone cabling which usually connects between your entrance facilities, equipment rooms as well as the telecommunications rooms.
* Horizontal cabling generally connects telecommunications rooms to specific outlets on the actual floor.
* Telecom rooms that typically keep your equipment linking all the backbone and horizontal cables.
The actual design and installation of structured cabling is in fact governed by a set of standards designed for data or voice communications, by means of category 5 or category 6 cable and modular sockets. (Cables might also be known as Cat5e or Cat6)
These particular standards outline how to lay the cables in a “star formation”. This requires that all the telecom outlets are terminated inside a central patch panel (mostly 19 inch rack-mounted on the inside the communications cabinet in the telecom room - also occasionally called a server room).
From this patch panel it will be decided in what way these connections will be used.
Each and every outlet could be ‘patched’ to a data network switch, or alternatively directly into a voice patch panel’ what forms a bridge straight into a private branch exchange (PBX) telephone system - this would make the actual connection a voice port as opposed to a data port.
Most current data cabling standards indicate that all eight connectors in Cat5, Cat5e and Cat6 cable are connected, this approach means that you cannot ‘double-up’ or make use of a single one cable for either voice and data.
Structured cabling schemes will offer you connections from individual points all around a building to a central patching destination inside of a communications cabinet.
Voice switch, LAN hub and telecoms services are usually presented at the patch panel and peripherals tend to be cross-connected for you to deliver the necessary service exactly where they’re needed around the building.
Structured Cabling can now support data, voice, video, CCTV, TV distribution and seems to be supporting more and more devices as the years go by. It is essential to get this right as the cabling could be in your building for many years.
Your entire cabling infrastructure can easily be put together and designed to meet new expectations, and can allow for any kind of moves office workers intend to make, as one move or more, on a non permanent or long term basis. Additions, moves and changes towards your structured cabling can certainly be made quickly.
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