Structured cabling:
Fast Track Communications has strategic alliances with leading vendors such as Siemon, Panduit, Molex and AMP allowing our customers to reap the benefits of the world’s leading suppliers with an internal knowledgebase that encompasses many years of structured cabling expertise. We have a full understanding of both the needs and concerns that can affect corporate IT services. Our alliances ensure that you can be confident your needs for the present are met and future requirements are taken into consideration helping to maximise your return on investment.
Structured cabling gives business a single unified infrastructure that will support Servers, PC’s, telephone systems and other devices in corporate offices – taking away the need for multiple wiring systems. A structured cabling system provides a universal platform on which to build your overall information strategy supporting multiple voice, data, video, multimedia systems, regardless of their manufacturer, in any desired area.
Structured cabling prepares business for the inevitable move to converged voice and data technologies by supporting applications such as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), Video over IP and unified messaging. Cabling solutions can be configured and adapted to meet the changing demands of business, easily accommodating staff moves – whether individual or collective, temporary or permanent with each outlet being separately configurable from a central position giving flexible and fault tolerant network cabling.
With structured cabling you can:
- handle voice and data in any format including computer applications, enabling you to simply plug the appropriate adapter in and get started
- easily make changes by simply moving relevant patch leads and plug them into their new position
- provide quality performance and reliability thanks to 'best of breed' components from leading suppliers
- let you adapt easily to rapid change, by reducing the need for scarce and costly skills.
Various options are available to ensure that cabling solution meets your business needs. Structured cabling schemes provide connections from specified points around a building to a central patching location. Voice switch, LAN hub and telecommunications services are presented at the patch panel. Peripherals can be cross connected to deliver the required service wherever it is needed around your premises.
An appropriate infrastructure of network products and structured cabling will allow you to support your communications requirements and take advantage of current and future developments in VoIP technology.
Structured cabling solutions are defined by ‘category’, which determines the rate at which data can be transferred across it. These are:
| Catagory |
Maximum Data Rate |
Usual Application |
| CAT 3 |
16 Mbps |
Voice and data on 10BASE-T Ethernet |
CAT 5
|
100 Mbps
1000 Mbps (4 pair) |
100 Mbps TPDDI
155 Mbps ATM
No longer supported; replaced by 5E |
CAT 5E
|
1000 Mbps
(10000 Mbps prototype) |
100 Mbps TPDDI
155 Mbps ATM
Gigabit Ethernet
Offers better near-end crosstalk |
| CAT 6 |
Up to 400 MHz |
Super-fast broadband applications
Most popular cabling for new installs |
CAT 6A
|
Up to 625 MHz
(field-tested to 500 MHz) |
Support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet
(10GBASE-T) |
CAT 7
(ISO Class F)
|
600-700 MHz
1.2 GHz in pairs with Siemon connector |
Full-motion video
Teleradiology
Government and manufacturing environments
Shielded system |
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