The Benefits of a NetX Structured Cabling System – Part One

Planning an implementation of a high-performing, certified, structured cable system installed in accordance with industry standards will allow your networking equipment and computer systems to perform to their potential. Structured cabling systems are the core communications medium of your business. They will keep your business processes operating and producing across multiple functional units of your organization. It is unwise for business decision makers to compromise on performance or quality of their structured cabling system to save a few dollars. Doing so will almost certainly cost more money over the long term because of slow-time and down-time leading to the need to troubleshoot, test, repair, or replace components of an under-designed and under-performing structured cabling system.

A structured cabling system not only services the space your business occupies but also the whole building. It must contain entrance facilities which refer to the building interfaces along with the equipment rooms that store equipment (servers, routers, switches, security systems, telecom equipment, phone systems, etc.) used to serve users connecting to the cabling system. The telecommunication rooms, or closets, house mission-critical equipment and serve as a connection point to two cabling subsystems – the backbone cabling and the horizontal cabling. These two elements tie the system together with the horizontal cabling connecting the telecommunication equipment to the workstation outlets. The work-area components connect the end-user equipment to the outlets coming from the horizontal cabling system. All these components must be of high quality, properly installed and certified according to industry standards and then maintained to ensure uninterrupted service.