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How do we do it?
Horizontal cabling connects work area outlets in a building to the telecommunications closet or server room. If the site only has one building or is only a single floor building, it will be the only type of cable installed. Since horizontal cabling carries voice communications, data communications, and local area network (LAN) traffic, carefully planning the installation is important. A building should be wired so that new equipment can be added, changed, or relocated without installing new horizontal cabling or moving existing lines. The plan should anticipate future needs and requirements and extra outlets in vacant areas should be pre-wired to avoid future disruptions. Eventually when expansion occurs, the work areas will be ready. Always try to install the highest capacity cable system within budget. Using Category 5 cable for both voice and data outlets is also a great way to make the horizontal system extremely flexible for future applications.

Installation Factors
Topology - Horizontal cabling should be installed in a star configuration with each work-area outlet connected to a telecommunications closet.

Appearance - The horizontal cabling should never be visible. Drop ceilings, raised access floor, conduit, wire raceways, ceiling pathways, cable trays, under carpet raceways, inter-stud wiring methods can all be used to hide the wire.

Maximum Distances - The total cable length should not be more than 295 feet (90m) from the work area outlet to the telecommunications closet. The work area patch cable should be no more than 10 feet (3m) and the patch cables and jumpers in the telecommunications closet should not add up to more than 23 feet (7m) for a total maximum of 328 feet (100m). It is recommended that a patch cord should not exceed 16.7 feet (6m) and that a maximum of 2 patch cords per run is used. The above guidelines are provided by the EIA/TIA 568 Commercial Structured Wiring standard.

Work Area Outlet - Each work area should have a minimum of two outlets: one for data and one for voice. If there is demand for high-throughput applications in some work areas, you may want to consider installing fiber to one of the outlets.

Electromagnetic Interference - When installing horizontal cabling try to avoid running cable close to any electrical facilities that generate high levels of EMI like photocopiers, motors, transformers, and elevators. Never install the horizontal cabling in the same outlet as electrical components. If running the horizontal cable parallel with electrical wiring, keep it at least 15 inches away. If you must cross electrical wiring, do so at a 90 degree angle.

Types of Cable
- Four pair 100-ohm UTP cable
- Two pair 150-ohm shielded twisted pair (STP) cable
- 62.5/125 micron multimode fiber-optic cable
- 50-ohm coaxial cable

100-ohm UTP is the most universal and least expensive type of cable. If you plan on installing UTP, it is strongly recommended that you use Category 5 or Enhanced Category 5 wire instead of Category 3 or 4.



Category 5e/6 (Cat 5e/6):
The traditional way of providing networking for PC's etc. is to link them together using thin ethernet cable (coax). This has the advantage of being cheap but with it the disadvantage that if anyone of the devices on the network either develops a fault or is disconnected, the others will stop working. In addition to the coax, point to point cabling had to be installed for the telephone system, therefore two cable types were run but they could only support their own services.

There is also one more disadvantage to the use of the coax system, it will not support any increase in operational speed.

More and more the use of a twisted pair cabling system is being utilized to provide a better solution for both data and voice as it offers the following advantages:

-The failure of a PC or its disconnection does not affect any of the others on the network
- PC to outlet connection is simpler
 
 
- Any future expansion does not involve closing the network down to provide service to the additional points
- The cabling system will support higher operational speed without any further cabling changes
- Only one cabling system needs to be installed as it supports both voice and data, saving both time and money, whilst offering greater flexibility as the cables are not dedicated to either voice or data as before.

Whilst a true structured cabling system (flood wiring) is more expensive to install the cost of any staff moves is less expensive as the user can plug straight into an outlet already in place and a simple re-patching at the patch panel, is all that is required. Should the need for extra points occur there would be no extra costs in the cable laying as it would already be installed. Therefore, structured cabling systems are far more flexible in meeting the changing needs of the modern office environment that just providing sufficient outlets to meet today's requirements.
 

 
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