No matter what kind of facility you are, Structured Cabling is essential. Structured Cabling is designed to carry voice, data and video signals throughout a commercial environment.
Structured Cabling involves hundreds, thousand, and even miles of cabling, which keeps your communications running which all of your business activities rely upon. Any cable issues will impact your voice and data communications which can be costly and impact your business processes and employee productivity. By having a standards compliant structured cabling system, downtime can be effectively eliminated.
Business
The purpose behind installing standards based structured cabling is to provide businesses the powerful and dependable network they require to meet their communication needs. Some businesses we have helped over the years include:
- Restaurants
- Retail Stores
- Small Businesses
- Law Offices
- Medical Facilities
- Hospitals
- Newspapers
- Manufacturing
- Airlines
Education
Outdated cabling infrastructures can severely limit the ability for educational institutions to function efficiently every day. We have helped many education facilities including:
- School Districts (K12)
- Universities
- Colleges
- Distance Learning Centers
Real World Structured Cabling Applications:
Structured Cabling is an important part of the operation of any facility that requires communications. Your network is the backbone of your operation and it needs to be wired correctly and well organized. It’s one of the most important, often overlooked, and underestimated priorities of organizations.
- We will wire a data center, office or building for data or voice communications
- We can reduces costs through each phase/life cycle, from installation, to moves, adds, changes, maintenance and administration.
- Inferior cabling systems are the cause of up to 70% of network downtime and by installing a standards compliant structured cabling system much of this downtime can be effectively eliminated.
- Documentation of your cabling will reduce the time it takes to modify the original installation, minimize network downtime, increase the life of a cabling and reduces the number of technicians needed to handle problems.
- Our team will help you develop a Network Management system you can use to manage all of your cable to make life easier in the future.
- Our team will help you develop a Network Management system you can use to manage all of your cable to make life easier in the future.
Structured Cabling
Structured Cabling is a set of standards that determine how to wire a data center, office or building for data or voice communications, typically using Category 5e or Category 6 cable and modular sockets. These standards define how to lay the cabling in a star formation, such that all outlets terminate at a central patch panel (which is normally 19 inch rack-mounted), from where it can be determined exactly how these connections will be used. Each outlet can be ‘patched’ into a data network switch (normally also rack mounted alongside), or patched into a ‘Telecom Patch Panel’ which forms a bridge into a private branch exchange (PBX) telephone system, thus making the connection a voice port. Lines are patched with simple straight-through patch cables.
It is normal to see different color patch cables used in the patch panel to help identify which type of connection is being carried, though the structured cabling standards do not require this, except in the demarcation wall field.
The standards demand that all eight connectors in the Cat5e/Cat6 cable are connected, resisting the temptation to ‘double-up’ or use one cable for both voice and data. This is generally a good thing as it means that they fully support features such as Power over Ethernet.
For assistance in planning/designing your Structured Cabling, please contact us today.
About ECS
ECS, headquartered in Auburn, WA, is a team of experts ready to help businesses with the important and often complicated decision of finding the best communication solutions for their company, from voice to data. Servicing Washington & Oregon, ECS specializes in voice, data, video, & wireless. For more information contact ECS at (253) 886-5400 or visit us on the web at www.GoECS.com