Connectivity Hardware

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Connectivity Hardware

• Star!
• Phones computers same cable?
• EIA/TIA 568 (Electronics Industry/Telephone
  Industry)
• Structured Cable Components
• Horizontal cable
• Equipment room
• Work area

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Cabling Categories

• Category 1 phone
• Category 2 lt 4 Mbps
• Category 3 lt 10 Mbps
• Category 4 lt 20 Mbps
• Category 5 lt 100 Mbps
• Not the number of pairs
• Get 4 pair!

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Horizontal cable

• UTP
• 4 pair, 100 Ohm, 24 AWG, solid-core
• 2 pair, 150 Ohm, 22 AWG, solid-core
• Keep away from electrical fields
• Max distance from equipment room to work area 90
  meters
• STP for use near electrical fields
• grounded shielding
• Not for phone systems

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Horizontal Cable (2)

• Fiber
• 2 fiber, 62.5/125 ?m fiber optic
• Fiber, cladding, insulating jacket
• Light
• laser single mode - rare
• light emitting diodes multimode
• Please do not bend..
• Interbuilding backbone
• Fire ratings
• PVC more smoke gas
• Plenum better (by law)

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Equipment Room

• Organization
• Racks 19 wide to house whatever!
• Patch Panel
• Prevent Horizontal Cable from movement
• Back individual wire connections
• Front RJ45 ports, Labels! (p301)
• Patch cable
• stranded CAT5 UTP
• Straight through

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Work Area

• Voice/Data labels
• Label system!
• Multi-speed hubs

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Multiple Floors, Buildings

• EIA 569
• Multiple equipment rooms, switches
• Backbone to support combined demands
• Centralized Servers
• Equipment room, Horizontal cable, Work area
• Backbone (floorsvertical)(buildingshorizontal)
• Building entrance
• Telecommunications closets

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Tools

• Cable tester
• Continuity
• Time Domain Reflectometers
• Protocol Analyzer
• Toner
• Tone generator
• Tone probe