Long Island Wiring & Cabling Service
Over the years voice and data cabling requirements have merged. Today, cabling infrastructures are designed to support voice, data and video as well as other Long Island building communications services such as video conferencing, cable TV and security applications such as CCTV.
The preferred cabling media in Long Island is either unshielded or shielded balanced twisted pair cables which have progressed to a stage in development where a bandwidth of over 200MHz is now available.
Each communications cable provides four twisted pairs between two points in a network.
Structured cabling is a Long Island building's telecommunications cabling infrastructure. This infrastructure as a whole consists of a number of smaller elements known as subsystems.
These subsystems include (but are not limited to):
- Backbone cabling which connects between the entrance facilities, equipment rooms and telecommunications rooms.
- Horizontal cabling which connects telecommunications rooms to specific outlets on the floor.
- Telecommunications rooms which house the equipment connecting the backbone and horizontal cabling.
The design and installation of structured Long Island cabling is governed by a set of standards for data or voice communications, using category 5 or category 6 cable and modular sockets. (Cables can also be known as Cat5e or Cat6)
These standards outline how to lay the cabling in a "star formation". This means that all outlets are terminated at a central patch panel (normally 19 inch rack-mounted inside the communications cabinet in the telecommunications room - also sometimes known as a server room).
