Cable Technicians install, repair, and maintain residential cabling for internet and television services. The duties of a Cable Technician include installing feeder lines that provide cable access to homes and businesses, laying ground cable, and setting up associated equipment for customers.
Whenever you take a look through any of the different cabling catalogs you will see an abundance of various types of components that can be used within structured network cabling systems. You’ll read all sorts of technical jargon that describes their different features and also see strange terms like patch cabling and raceways.
But what do these all fancy terms mean and what part do these different components play when creating structured network systems?
Below we have outlined some of the main components that may be used when designing and installing your next network cabling system.
The Main Sub-Systems Of A Cabling System
There are six main sub-systems that are included within a structured cabling system and these include the entrance facility, main equipment room, the telecommunications rooms, individual work-stations along with backbone and horizontal cabling.
The entrance facility is the point where all the outdoor cables from the different service providers connect to the buildings backbone cabling system. The backbone cable then connects these to the equipment room and each of the telecommunication rooms.
The equipment room is the main frame and central distribution centre for the entire building and contains all the different types of equipment to be used such as the power supplies and protection, file servers, data processing equipment, phone systems and LAN equipment.
The backbone cabling connects the equipment room to the telecommunications room on each of the floors of the building and this is usually structured by using a star topology.
The telecommunications rooms contain telecommunication equipment, cable terminations and cross-connects and this is where the horizontal cable comes into play. It has the role of horizontally connecting all the different outlets or workstations on that floor to the main frame.
Both Horizontal Cabling & Backbone cabling can use UTP, STP, Coaxial or Fiber-Optic cable but as Backbone cabling runs between the equipment room and telecommunications rooms on each floor it needs extra strength and must also meet certain ANSI/TIA/EIA specifications such as specific fire hazard ratings.
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