Structured Cabling

Businesses that want to compete need to have an impeccable communication system. VOIP and other telecommunication systems are the order of the day and, if companies want to maintain national or global standard of communication, they would need to have a robust communication structure. Networking infrastructure plays a very significant role in maintaining an effective, uninterrupted and smooth communication system. Structured cabling systems form the backbone of leading business houses across the world and it has helped them to design and strategize their communication systems for a better growth rate.

You Need An Impeccable Communication System

If you too are planning to run your organization smoothly, you need to have a networking system that helps you achieve all your communication goals unhindered. Work flow disorders and related organizational problems can hit the bottom line of a business in the long run. But, with a robust networking system, communication issues can be easily tided over. There are a variety of network cabling systems that can be adopted, but if you are looking for an efficient as well as cost-effective solution then nothing can beat structured cabling. This cabling system not only helps you to strategize and implement your communication systems, it also enables your business take advantage of all the latest technologies such as VoIP, Hosted IP, Video conferencing, etc.

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Advantages of using structured cabling systems

This is considered to be one of the most flexible and cost effective system for creating a powerful network infrastructure.
Since this cabling system is really flexible, it can be easily dismantled and carried to new location without much hassle.
Structured cabling can handle voice and data traffic and can adapt to different kind of network infrastructure.
With proper cables, structured cabling enables high speed transfer allowing you to transact large volumes of data at low cost. You can expect overall increase in productivity all around.
Since the cabling system is highly flexible it can be easily installed in high rise buildings, offices, residences, warehouses.
Many peripherals such as printers, faxes, scanners have become network capable and all of them have RJ-45 sockets. This helps you save on capital costs as you can centralize many of these peripherals and make them available to every user.

Structured cabling has to be installed based on some universally accepted standards. The 3 prevalent cabling standards are as follows:

The American Standard – EIA/TIA 568C
The International standard for structured cabling systems – ISO/IEC 11801
The European cabling standard – CENELEC EN 50173

Components of a Structured Cabling System

A structured cabling system is made up of independent modular subsystems that can work together to complete a building’s cabling system. Every subsystem is designed and implemented independently, but they are all connected and function together. This is one of the significant advantages of using a structured cabling system as it facilitates flexibility – a change in one cabling subsystem does not affect the working of the other.

The sub systems consist of:

Work area subsystem
Horizontal subsystem
Backbone subsystem
Telecommunications Room (TR)
Equipment Room (ER)
Entrance Facility (EF)

Riser cabling or vertical cabling is used to connect different equipments located on two different floors of a building. Horizontal cabling is used to connect telecommunication rooms with individual work areas or outlets.

Twisted Pair Cables
Twisted pair cables emerged in the early 1990s with 10BaseT standard. Copper cables come in unshielded twisted pair (UTP) and shielded twisted pair (STP). The one used most for networking cabling are UTP.

UTP are categorized by their capability. Cat 1 are your traditional telephone cables. Cat 3 were used in 10BaseT that could carry a maximum of 10 Mbps. The cable types used most commonly for networking are Cat 5 and Cat 5e. Cat 5 has 4 twisted pairs and is used in 100Base-TX networks that can carry 100 Mbps. Cat 5e is enhanced Cat 5 and is used in Gigabit networks. This can support a max speed of 1 Gbps. In the recent past, a new category of cable has emerged called Cat 6. Cat 6 has very high bandwidth and can transfer data at up to 10 Gbps.

Fiber Optic Cables
If you are looking for higher speed, then you have to consider fiber optic cables. Instead of using electrical current to carry data, fiber optics use modulated light pulses to carry data. An optical fiber consists of a thin cylinder of glass called the core. This is surrounded by additional layers of glass called cladding. Each cable has two cores – one for receiving and one for transmitting. Fiber optics can also use single mode that uses a single pulse of light or multi- mode that uses multiple pulses running at different reflection angles. One of the biggest advantages of fiber optics is complete protection from electrical interference. And of course, since light pulses are used, they are very fast. The capacity of fiber optic cabling sometimes is mind boggling – one cable can carry 3 million full duplex voice or 90,000 TV channels simultaneously. Theoretically fiber optic cables can carry data at a speed of up to 1 Terabit per second.

We have been installing and maintaining high end structured cabling as we know it is critical for your communication needs. Our highly trained technicians have experience across all sizes of networks – from as small as 4 users networks to large networks having 1000s of users and spread across multiple floors and buildings. PhoneAmerica is a trusted and experienced Telecommunications installer and IT systems integrator, with the expertise to meet all of your cabling, wireless, and LAN/WAN needs.