Exactly what is Structured Cabling?
In time voice along with data cabling demands have combined. Right away, cabling infrastructures have been designed to support voice, data and video plus other building communications services which includes video conferencing, cable television and security applications which can include CCTV.
The preferred cabling media in the UK is either unshielded or shielded balanced twisted pair cables which have progressed to a stage in development where a bandwidth of over 200MHz is now available.
Comms room to the desk top.
The cabling infrastructure contained within a building is known as Structured Cabling. This infrastructure all together comprises of a number of smaller elements often referred to as subsystems.
These include –
* Backbone wiring which in turn connects between any entrance facilities, equipment rooms and telecommunications rooms.
* Horizontal wiring that typically connects telecommunications rooms to certain outlets on your floor.
* Telecom rooms that contains the backbone and horizontal cabling as well as the active equipment and telephony equipment that allows for data and voice communictions to run over the cabling.
A design and installation of structured cabling is in fact governed by a set of standards to suit data or voice communications, by means of category 5 or category 6 cable and telecom outlets. (Cables might also be recognized as Cat5 or Cat6)
These particular standards outline how to lay the cabling in a “star formation”. This means that all the telecom outlets are terminated at the central patch panel (normally 19 inch rack-mounted in the communications cabinet in the telecommunications room – also often termed a server room).
From this patch panel it will be decided in what way these connections will be used.
Every different outlet could very well be ‘patched’ right into a data network switch, alternatively directly into a voice panel’ that typically forms a bridge into a private branch exchange (PBX) telephone system – this would make the actual connection a voice port and not a data port.
Present day data cabling standards specify that all eight connectors in Cat5, Cat5e and Cat6 cable are connected, this approach means that you are not able to ‘double-up’ or make use of one cable for either voice and data.
Structured cabling schemes supply you with connections from individual points all over a building to a central patching location in a comms enclosure.
Voice switch, LAN switch and telecom services are generally presented at the patch panel and peripherals can be cross-connected to help deliver the required service anywhere they may be required around the building.
Structured Cabling is literally the glue that links every thing – from network services, for instance ISDN, ADSL, WAN, and LAN to multimedia, voice and data.
Your actual cabling infrastructure can be put together and tailored to meet different expectations, and can allow for any kind of moves team members need to make, as one move or more, on a brief or long term basis. Additions, moves and changes with your structured cabling can be made quite easily.
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