Structured Cabling
WHAT IS STRUCTURED CABLING?
Structured cabling is a “standards” based method of engineering and installing an integrated data, voice and video cabling system for your business. A properly designed and installed structured cabling system provides you with a cabling infrastructure that delivers predictable performance as well as flexibility to accommodate growth and change over an extended period of time. Additionally, a structured cabling system provides a uniform, open physical cabling topology that can simultaneously support multiple logical networking topologies for different networking applications such as Ethernet and ATM. Your initial investment in a “standards” based structured cabling system will return many benefits including an extended operational lifespan, predictable performance, manageability and growth. These benefits bring increased efficiency, improved productivity and reduced costs to you and to your business.
WHAT ARE “STANDARDS” AND WHY ARE THEY IMPORTANT?
Domestic and international standards organizations have been formed to ensure that manufactured products meet certain quality, safety and performance “norms” for that category and class of product. Standards organizations such as ISO/IEC, TIA/EIA, CENELEC and CSA have created and published standards for structured cabling products and systems, and their specifications for Category 5, Category 5e and proposed specifications for Category 6 systems are widely used and accepted in the industry today.
For end-users, the challenge will be in selecting a structured cabling system that will meet both current and future needs. Whether those needs indicate the use of Category 5, Category 5e or Category 6 systems, end-users should look for systems that not only meet but exceed the specifications of each respective standard, thereby providing additional performance margins to accommodate the evolution of ever more demanding networking needs.
Dax Offers 20 Years Warranty for the installed end to end cabling system *
STANDARDS
- ANSI/EIA/TIA-568-B Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard
- ANSI/EIA/TIA-569-B Commercial Building standard for Telecommunications pathways and spaces
- ANSI/EIA/TIA-606 Administration standard for the telecommunication infrastructure of commercial Buildings - February 1993.
- ANSI/EIA/TIA-607 Commercial building grounding and bonding requirements for telecommunications - August 1994.
*as per the Dax design guide lines.
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