Many
customers question whether their needs warrant the upgrade
of their  existing
cabling infrastructure. In order to answer this one needs
to understand what benefits are gained by moving to a Structured
Cabling System.
A
structured cabling system consists of
- horizontal
cabling, from RJ45 data points located near the user workstations,
back to a communications patch panel and Hub/Switch located
on each floor.
-
backbone cabling connects the communications Hub on each
floor to the central communications cabinet.
-
the central communications cabinet patch panels and patch
cables are used to interconnect the Hub/Switch on each
floor to a Switch, forming the network.
The
structured cabling system provides for future expansion of
the network and allows for quick isolation of a malfunctioning
workstation or printer. A fault which occurs in the cable
to one workstation is limited to that workstation only and
does not impact the total network as is the case with the
co-axial cable system .
Category
5 UTP cable and Category 5 network components are used in
the network cabling structure. These Category 5 components
will support the 100Base-Tx 100Mbps standard and the 10Base-T
10 Mbps standard.
The
UTP cable system requires that each workstation have a UTP
capable Network Interface Card (NIC) installed. Almost all
modern network capable workstations would have this capability
, and it can be identified by examining the NIC for an RJ45
socket. Networks which are changing over from a co-axial cabling
system would need to check that their workstations meet this
requirement.
Let
DALTRON design, build and maintain the computer network
which will be the foundation of your future information systems.
For
more information call +675 302 2200 or EMAIL
service@daltron.com.pg
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