Structured Cabling Installation Considerations
Below is a list of Structured Cabling Installation items for your consideration when planning your home or office cabling build-out. How you answer these may affect the price of your quote and how we run the cabling. The more you can answer the better.
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- Cabling installation type needed?
- Cat5E
- Cat6
- Cat6A
- Fiber Optic
- Single Mode
- Multi Mode
- What type of fiber connectors?
- Coax
- RG59
- RG6
- RG11
- Does the cabling installation need to be shielded?
- Usually only required if there is a lot of electrical interference in the area the cabling installation will run through.
- Does the color of the cabling, faceplates and jacks matter?
- The cabling installation requires how many locations?
- Is the cabling installation for one floor only?
- Type of cabling locations?
- Cubicles
- Usually requires a proprietary faceplate from the cubicle manufacturer.
- Office Walls
- Faceplate or Surface Mount box?
- Server Room Rack and Patch Panel
- Telco Room Punch Block
- Outdoor
- Aerial
- Direct Burial
- Cubicles
- Approximate cabling installation distances?
- Will the cabling installation need to go through special access areas?
- Telco and Cable co. cabling sometimes runs through other tenants offices.
- Telco closets in public spaces are normally locked.
- IT rooms are normally locked.
- What type of building construction is there?
- Drop ceilings
- Attics
- Sheetrock
- Plaster
- Brick
- Concrete
- Conduit or Innerduct installation needed?
- Is a permit from the city required?
- Does the building management require the cabling installation to be Plenum (Fire) rated?
- Is the building Union labor only?
- Some buildings won’t allow non Union labor.
- Does the building management require an insurance certificate before work can start?
- If so, they should have a template with all of their requirements.
- What type of Internet / Phone Service do you have?
- Cable Company
- FiOS
- DSL
- T1
- Will additional internet bandwidth be needed?
- Will additional infrastructure be needed?
- Switches
- Routers
- Patch Panels
- Racks / cabinets
- Phone Blocks
- Phone System
- Phone Ports
- Phone Lines from the Telco
- Phone Sets
- Do you have a floor plan?
- What’s your time frame?
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