Structured Wiring Concepts - Stand
The typical home office starts off with Category 5 or higher cabling run to all of the phone and data locations in the home. This is the physical foundation necessary to ensure that the home can be connected to today’s services and prepared for new technologies. The Category 5+ cabling allows each outlet to be used for telephone lines, data or as connections to high-speed Internet access. Each video outlet is cabled with RG-6 quad-shielded coax cable capable of receiving a digital satellite or cable signals. Structured cabling allows someone to watch their favorite DVD in the study, while the DVD player is actually located two rooms away in the family room.

The network for all this technology is structured cabling system. This begins where services from outside the home such as Cable TV, telephone, Digital Satellite Service, and Internet enter the home. The structured cabling system allows all of the home office work and, after 5 p.m. fun to integrate seamlessly. The cabling center has modules that distribute video signals to any room in the house, while the voice distribution allows for multi-line phones. The data connections center allows for networking the home, enabling sharing peripheral devices such as printers and fax machines, or high-speed Internet connections. The whole house audio system allows for controlling the volume of the music, or even changing the station from each individual room while one receiver, usually located in the family room, plays music through the entire home.

Why Install a Structured Cabling System
Structured cabling is rapidly becoming the cabling of choice in new home built today. More that 670,000 homes were built with structured cabling in 2002. One-third of those new homes built include broadband and home offices. Telecommuting is becoming more of a reality for people because o the advances in residential networking. Recent studies show that as many as one in three workers telecommute as least one day a week, and there will be as many as one million new home-based businesses in the United States by 2005. The trend is for these home-based businesses and telecommuters to equip a room in the home with all the latest technologies and the base for all this technology is the structured cabling system.