Structured Cabling Sunshine Coast
Structured cabling is a term used when dealing with either specific or complicated cabling on the Sunshine Coast. You’ll find the term Structured Cabling often used by installation technicians for data outlets, video, and other management systems involving cabling.
This is an infrastructure consists of different elements which are structured by a combination of patch panels and trunks. The term is defined by the building of a campus or standard cabling infrastructure.
Structured Cabling allows for hardware ports to be connected to patch panels. Plus, creates what is known as a Main Distribution Area or MDA. The MDA is the heart of structured cabling, it provides an area where many different connections can be made with short cables.
Why Use Structured Cabling?
The main reason is to avoid creating a mess of wiring that makes identification and organization quite difficult. Effective structured cabling offers three main advantages.
- Lower Risk of Downtime: If something goes wrong, it’s easier to identify and correct
- Cost Effective: Reduces maintenance and power costs
- Time Saving: Wiring can be changed and reconnected quickly and easily
Subsystems of Structured Cabling
There are six essential subsystems to a structured cabling system. Each system offers its unique characteristics to the overall system itself.
Entrance Facility:
This is where the network demarcation pint, protection devices, cabling, connective hardware, and other devices are located.
Equipment Area:
A centralized location to hold the equipment and wiring. This area normally serves users within the building or campus.
Telecommunications Enclosure:
This is an enclosed area that holds the equipment for telecommunication use. It includes the cable terminations, distribution frames, and cross connects. In most cases, each building will have at least one telecommunication enclosure or room.
Backbone Cabling:
Sometimes call vertical wiring or cabling, this is the place that connects the entrance facilities, telecommunication, and equipment rooms. For the most part, this type of cabling is performed between buildings or floor to floor.
The equipment is connected by cabling that should not be more than 30 meters in length. The type of cabling used is generally fiber optics, but it also may include coaxial, shielded, and unshielded twisted pair cabling as well.
Horizontal Cabling:
This is the cabling that connects the telecommunication information outlet, normally located in the work area to the horizontal cross-connect into the telecommunication enclosure or room.
The cabling includes the optional consolidation points, horizontal cable, patch cords or jumpers, mechanical terminations, and telecommunications outlet.
You’ll find this type of cabling normally in the ceiling or run under the floor. Plus, it normally uses both fiber optic and Ethernet cables.
Work Area:
This is the place where the work-area components connect the end-user equipment to the communication outlets.
Data Outlets and Installation
Effective structured cabling for data outlets, installation of security alarm systems, and other uses starts with good planning. Whether on the Sunshine Coast or anywhere structured cabling allows for quick and easy access to different systems all within the MDA or Main Distribution Area.
This form of cabling is perfect for facilities where many connections can be made inside a relatively small space. Having a qualified technician install this cabling is advised as it can be complicated, and the correct installation is crictical.
Red Hot Telecommunications provides phone, data & security cabling. Contact the team with all your questions on the mobile 0439461588.
