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Structured Wiring
What is Structured Wiring
• Components •
Structured vs. Traditional Wiring
What is Structured
Wiring?
"Structured wiring" offers you the ability
to wire your home with cables for video, telephone and data. Everything
is run through the inside of the walls, eliminating visible wires.
Rooms can contain enough outlets to give you the maximum use of
the wiring, both now and for the future. This means you can finally
put the television anywhere you want, regardless of where the cable
comes into the house and you will have the flexibility to expand
with your family's future growing needs.
“Structured wiring” is a concept that anticipates
the present and future electronic needs for every room of your household.
Structured wiring systems can be thought of as the electronic foundation
for your home.
As telecommuting grows in popularity and the internet
and cable television become staple items in American households,
"future-proof” wiring techniques become a necessity for anyone
building a home today. The research firm, Parks Associates, reported
that 48% of all new homes will be pre-wired with structured wiring
by 2004.
"Structured wiring" opens many possibilities
for your home. Your television can be networked to allow everyone
in your house to watch the same show from a single DVD player. Your
computers can be networked to share files, internet connections
and even a common printer. Home offices can be built with separate
phone lines for voice, fax, modem, computer networking, and rooms
can be prepared for both cable and satellite reception. These are
just a few examples.
A home built with "structured wiring"
can be added to gradually as your needs and budget allow, but you
have to plan ahead. The wiring for "structured wiring"
should be installed before you fill your wall cavities with insulation
and cover them with drywall. After the "structured wiring"
is in place, your system can be developed at whatever pace suits
your needs.
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Components of a "Structured
Wiring" System
There are three main components in a "structured
wiring" system:
Component #1 - The Central Hub
A service center will be built inside your home
to receive all outside services such as cable, telephone, DSS
Satellite, internet, etc. The central hub will resemble the breaker
box that receives electrical power from your utility company.
The hub will distribute various electronic services to locations
throughout your home.
Component #2 - Wires
The electronic service wires are the highway
that allows the information to travel within your home. They are
different from electrical wires. Electrical service wires are
daisy-chained, which means every electrical outlet shares wiring
with each adjacent outlet in a daisy chain pattern. This is a
poorly structured system due to the fact that if one outlet has
a problem, all the outlets that share the wires in that daisy
chain can be affected. "Structured wiring" systems run
directly from the central hub to each individual service outlet.
All wires leave the central hub and run outward. This is called
“star wiring” or a “home run” system. The overall wiring scheme
resembles a star-shaped pattern and is more efficient and reliable.
Component #3 - Outlets
Outlets can be considered as the off-ramps that
let the information exit the electronic highways in your home
and arrive at your computers, televisions, telephones, etc...
Most homes now only have a single coaxial outlet in each room
for cable television. "Structured wiring" can offer
you multi-port outlets that provide access to any combination
of services(phone, data, video and audio, etc..) to meet the specific
needs of every room in your house.
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Structured Verses Traditional Wiring
Media
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Traditional
Wiring |
Structured
Wiring |
| Phone |
Capable of 1 to 2
separate phone lines |
- Capable of up to
4 separate phone lines at each location
- Expandable for use
with commercial phone systems allowing conference calling,
call forwarding, intercom, speaker phone, music on-hold
and much more.
- Ability to disconnect
a phone line at any time.
- Dial-up internet
access with speeds up to 56 kbps.
- High speed digital
internet connections such as ISDN or DSL lines.
- Flexibility to change
wire usage.
- Crystal clear voice
connections. Conversations from other parties and static
are eliminated.
- Residential programmable
phone systems ready.
- RJ31x Security System
connection.
- Grounded and surge
protected.
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| Video |
- Relatively clear
reception of local, cable and satellite television signals.
- Possible cable modem
connection.
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- Enhanced reception
of local, cable and satellite television signals.
- Allows cable modem
connection.
- High Definition
Television (HDTV) ready.
- Enormous band-width
to handle future channel releases.
- In-house camera
systems for the nursery, kids playroom, pool area, backyard,
front or back entrances of your home. These can be viewed
from any television in your home!
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| Data |
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- Allows networking
of computers in your home.
- Perfect for home
office or telecommuting.
- Shared internet
access (Road Runner, DSL, etc.) or printers.
- Up to a gigabit
(1000 mbps) data transfer rate.
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