Structured cabling is the design and installation of a cabling system that will support multiple hardware uses and be suitable for today’s needs and those of the future. With a correctly installed system, current and future requirements can be met, and hardware that is added in the future will be supported.
Category 6 cable, commonly referred to as Cat 6, is a standardized twisted pair cable for Ethernet and other network physical layers that is backward compatible with the Category 5/5e and Category 3 cable standards. Compared with Cat 5 and Cat 5e, Cat 6 features more stringent specifications for cross-talk and system noise. The cable standard also specifies performance of up to 250 MHz compared to 100 MHz for Cat 5 and Cat 5e.
The Wiring Panel is the heart of any Structured Wiring job. You should have already chosen the location of your wiring panel when you created your Wiring Plan. This should probably be placed in the garage if you have one. Otherwise, a closet will work too. The benefit of proper structured wiring plan is that all wires terminate in one location – your wiring panel. This makes it much easier to change your setup and to diagnose and repair problems.
Don’t let cables and wires ruin the look and decor of your home or business. 316 Tech offers a wide range of wall-plates and inserts for multimedia applications so that you can hide those annoying looking wires and cables inside walls and out of sight where they belong. We carry standard blank wall-plates, pre-configured wall-plates, cable access wall-plates, and various types of inserts including multimedia blank inserts, preconfigured inserts, and cable access inserts. We even carry low voltage mounting brackets for new construction applications and organizing cables behind wall-mounted televisions.