is the total wiring in a building that connects office computers, phones, video cameras to the network so that these devices can be shared and effectively used. A key advantage of a structured wiring system is the ability to well support system changes without changing the current structured wiring system. Changes are inevitable in Today’s businesses. These changes come in the form of adding employees, product lines, marketing techniques, security systems, and data application just to manage then. Doing a computer upgrade, adding new application that requires more network resources or adding streaming video can be demanding on the in-house structured wiring system. If the structured wiring system is properly installed these project should go off without having to make major changes to the structured wiring.
A properly designed structured wiring system will meet standards known as EIA/TIA 586 A/B and the EIA/TIA 569. The purpose of these standards in regards to the structured wiring system is that adding and changing devices and software can be supported with minimal ease, cost and serviceability of the network demands in the foreseeable future.
The physical design of a structured wiring system will have cables connecting multiple floors in a building called vertical cable runs (backbone wiring). These cables are ran to wiring closets on each floor and then terminated on patch panels. Cables ran from each closet to wall jacks is called Horizontal cable. Horizontal wiring is any connection media that does not go up or down another floor.
