1. Horizontal Cabling
Horizontal cabling is found between the horizontal cross-connect in the telecommunications room and the workstation’s wall outlets. As you might have guessed, the cable runs horizontally, either beneath the floor or in the ceiling.
2. Backbone Cabling
Also known as vertical cabling, a backbone cable establishes a connection between the different rooms in the structured cabling system. The access provider area, entrance facility, equipment room, and telecommunications room all rely upon this connection.
3. Work Area
The work area houses all of the end-user materials, such as computers, phones, laptops, and other types of equipment that a company relies on daily. Communication outlets and patch panels connect users with the entire network.
Patch panels are pieces of hardware that feature multiple points that allow you to organize a group of cables. Each port in a patch panel contains a wire that goes to a different location.
4. Telecommunications Room/Enclosure
The structured cables need a place for the remainder of its telecommunications equipment. The size of this room can depend on the cable terminations, cross-connects, distribution frames, and the amount of equipment a company needs space for.
5. Entrance Facilities
The entrance facility is responsible for housing the connections between the cabling outside and inside the building. The equipment in an entrance facility includes a network demarcation point. This is the point at which a company’s private network begins and its public telecommunication network ends.
Other equipment in this location includes protection equipment, connecting devices, entrance cabling, other types of cabling components, and materials that are used to attach the public or private network provider.
6. Equipment Room
An equipment room is a designated space used to store complex equipment. Termination devices for wiring systems, as well as telecommunication systems such as switches and servers, are often kept in the equipment room. The equipment room often houses very complicated technology compared to the equipment stored in the telecommunications room.