Last week we completed yet another CAT5e installation for one of our customers in Sydney CBD. The customer was relocating and needed the outdated office to be fitted out with network cabling that will allow for the high bandwidth and transfer speeds that their business is growing dependant upon.

The cabling was not able to be run through the roof (which is the most common way to distribute the cables as most offices have a false ceiling), so therefore we had to use the existing skirted cable distribution which lined the outside of the office perimeter. The panels had to be removed, then the cables were run inside them to their mapped location. There were 22 data points to be fitted in total, which was a strain on the capacity of the skirting, but it was able to be done satisfactorily without modifying it. Most of the locations had either 2 or 4 sockets on the 35mm boxed wall plates. Once the cables had been fitted to every socket, it was time to terminate the other end.

The cabling was connected to a 24 port patch panel in T-568A configuration, and each cable was tested to confirm it was validated at CAT5e standard speed. A wall mounted 9RU data cabinet was fitted inside the utility room (where all the cabling had been run back to) the new ADSL line was connected and tested as working.

They had also decided to install a Panasonic phone system inside of their data cabinet, which means that they can connect the telephone extensions directly to the patch panel ports. Each phone was patched to the associated socket, and the phone system was programmed accordingly.

The site was now ready for the customer to be up and running the follow Monday morning.

If you have a network or telephone cabling requirement, contact us and we will be happy to help you too.

I have recently completed an installation at a home address in Chatswood, NSW. The customer requested that we install 19 CAT6 data points, spread throughout the various rooms in his newly bought house. The installation was to facilitate network and internet connection for both his servers (the customer has a background in IT and still manages some customers from home) and his family.

The house was not new, but built in the 1970′s and was very clean and in good condition. The roof, however, was extremely low and lined with rat droppings!

This is not the best news when you know you will be crawling through it for the next few days… but it had to be done! The CAT6 cables needed to run from the laundry, which is where a 42RU 800mm data cabinet would be installed, then up into the roof and eventually end up at a new socket in each respective room. Each cable was fixed along the roof beams in order to keep the cables out of harm’s reach, and once the cable had reached the intended room, it was run inside the wall cavity and connected to a fixed socket (either single, double or triple ports depending on location requirements).

Once the cables had been installed, the 24 port patch panel was terminated and each socket was labelled corresponding with the patch panel port. The ADSL line was terminated to the last port, therefore the customers modem could be connected inside the cabinet. Every socket was then validated and returned as a pass.

We supplied a 24 port 1 gigabit switch in order to enable each socket to have access to the network and the web, and a wireless access point was supplied in a strategic position to allow wireless access for additional wireless dependant devices.

After three days of hard work, we had put in place a solution that will give the customer super fast, reliable internet and network speeds for many years to come.

If you need to discuss your network requirements whether at home or the office, contact us today to see how we can help you.