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Q. What is a Structured Wiring System? A. Structured wiring is not a new term, it has been in use in commercial networking for some time. A few years ago this concept was adopted into the residential home. Unlike daisy-chaining, all wires from each outlet are home-run to a central hub or distribution unit in a star-like configuration. High quality cable connections and terminations ensure a high-performance end-to-end system. Services for each segment can be easily redirected as needs change within a home. Good planning and design are essential to having a reliable and functional Structured Wiring System. Q. What is a Central Hub or Demarkation Device? A. A Service Center which is the central point of accepting incoming services and distributing services throughout the home. High performance cabling including Category 5 telecommunications cable and GR6 Quad Shield coaxial video cable provide the circuits for information to travel. High quality outlets specifically designed to support advanced information services are used to supply signals to TV's, computers, modems and telephones. Q. What is Bandwidth? A. The bandwidth of a wire or cable is its' capacity to carry information. The larger the bandwidth, the more information that can pass through the wire. Similar to a highway, the bigger the highway or more lanes, a bigger wire can carry more bandwidth (traffic). The electrical characteristics of wire and cable along with its design determines the bandwidth. Q. What is Category 5 (CAT5) Cable? A. The cable consist of 4 individual twisted pairs of high quality 24 gauge copper wire enclosed in an outer PVC jacket. Each adjacent twist of each pair is offset from the other pairs. The cable has a high immunity to interference and can be extended to about 300 feet for computer networks. These cables are rated from 100Mhz to 350Mhz and can accommodate phone, fax, modem and high-speed digital transmissions. Q. What is RG6 Quad Shield Cable? A. Coaxial cable with an insulated center conductor and four layers of shielding enclosed in a PVC jacket. There are many varieties of coaxial cable, each suited for a particular application and frequency range. Prime considerations are whether to use a solid copper center conductor and/or copper braids as well as the percentage of coverage of the braids. The cable has high immunity to interference and is capable of higher bandwidths than twisted pair cable. Common uses are cable TV, digital satellite, cable modem, closed circuit TV (CCTV), video feeds and high-speed interactive video services. |
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