Role of Integrated Voice and Data Cabling in Communications

Nowadays various modes of communication and cabling are available. Most of the communication cables existing today are capable of carrying multiple means of data. Multimedia transmission compatible cables need efficient cabling and networks. The various modes of media include text, data (digital information), voice, video, etc.

The main medium that connects the data and voice systems with applications is the network infrastructure. Your communication network will fail if there is no robust cabling system. So the primary importance is given for the cabling infrastructure.

Newer means of communication and cabling is developing day by day. Integration of existing technologies to enhance more communication features is a latest trend in the communication world. Integration of voice and data cabling is one of such latest technologies developed for enhancing better business communication. As the name implies, this technology combines the voice and data cabling into a single cabling plan and thus integrates the data and voice traffic over the same network infrastructure. So in order to implement this technology efficient and expert plan and design of the voice and data cabling is essential. 

Features and Benefits of Integrated Voice and Data Cabling

Integration of voice and data cabling technology has a lot of benefits. It includes the individual benefits and features of both the voice cabling and data cabling. 

• The integrated voice and data cabling technology gives more enhance feature to the communication network and infrastructure. It helps to improve the efficiency and reliability of communication.

• Multimedia data transmission offers better transmission rate and also allows faster data exchange.

• Combination of voice, video and data enables the people to convey their ideas more clearly and precisely.

• This new technology will upgrade your business communication strategy to next generation communication strategy. It offers so much commercial, technical, and economical advancements for the business.

• The integration of voice and data cabling technology is so far affordable. It costs only reasonable price with so much enhanced features and wide range of benefits.

• The integrated voice and data cabling technology is very easier to maintain and upgrade. Also maintenance and upgrading charges will be comparatively low. That means it only causes minimal overhead for the business.

• Proper testing and certification of cables will improve the quality and productivity of business communication.

• This offers fast reliable communication and quality assurance.

• Moreover, this kind of integrated technologies helps to maintain long lasting relationships with the business clients and employees.

Voice and data cabling integration is one among the various newer experiments undertaking for improving the communication. Coming years will introduce more advanced technological integrations to make revolutions in the communication field.

New Generation Cables for Promoting Voice Cabling

Various new experiments are applying in the communication cabling fields. Each day new technologies are embedding into the existing cabling technologies. Main factor of all types of communication technologies is the underlying cables. Cables lay the basic architecture of communication networks and it provides the secure architecture.

Voice Cabling provides basic communication through telephone lines, modems and analog lines. Transmitting voice signals over networks will provide greater flexibility for communication. It also enables long distance communication with high data rate. Cables with high data transmission rate and low cost are always preferred for transmission.

There had a revolutionary growth in the voice cabling and networking field in the recent years. It is due to the emergence of new cables with more enhanced features. The various cables existing today are categorised into various groups. The initial groups were named as Category 1(CAT1) and Category 3(CAT3). Later the Category 5(CAT5) group was developed. Several variations of cat3 and cat5 cables were later developed. Then Category 6 (CAT6) cables and its variations offer new features to the voice cabling. More enhanced features are attained by the introduction of Category 7 cables in the voice cabling fields. Fibre optics is the recent and most modern category of voice cabling.

Category 6(CAT6), Category 7 (CAT 7) and fibre optics can be considered as the new generation cables for voice cabling. 

Category 6 Cables

Category 6 cables are used for business, education and commercial purposes. It is one of the best performing cables ever developed for Structured Cabling. This latest category of cables are mainly developed using 4 twisted sets of copper wire. The Category 6 cables have a structural difference in its longitudinal separator. The purpose of this separator is to reduce the crosstalk and to provide faster data transmission.  The most important feature of CAT6 cable is its bandwidth capacity. CAT6 cables have double the bandwidth of the regular CAT5 cables. CAT6 have a capacity to support up to 10 GB Ethernet to about 37 meters or 121 feet. CAT6 provides Ethernet up to 250 MHz and thus gives more data room for data transmission.

A newer version of CAT6 is emerged recently and named as CAT 6A. CAT 6A refers to Augmented Category 6 cables. This new version CAT 6A cable is certified to support about 100 meters or 328 feet. Both CAT 6A Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) and CAT 6A Shielded Twisted Pair (STP) cables are available in markets with their own specifications. The Augmented Category 6 cables extend the frequency of CAT 6 cables up to 500MHZ. An additional performance parameter is included within the CAT 6A standard cables and it is known as Alien Crosstalk (ANEXT). This alien parameter provides additional features and specifications to category 6 cables for reducing the near-end and far-end cross talks. It helps to improve the quality and reliability of voice communication considerably.

Category 7 Cables

The most upcoming cable model is the Category 7 cables. The CAT 7 is a Shielded Twisted Pair cable type and it is used for high speed Ethernet based computer networks. Cat 7 cable is backward compatible with CAT 6 and CAT 5 cabling standards and equipments. Category 7 cables is included in the Class F specification and defined in the ISO/IEC 11801:2002.  Hence the Cat 7 cable is also referred to as ISO class F cable. This newer category cables offer more enhanced performance against attenuation and crosstalk. 

Fibre Optic Cables

The fibre optic cable is the trendiest and advanced type of cable developed for voice cabling and networking. Fibre optics technology uses the glass or plastic fibres to transmit data. The cable is composed of glass threads that can transmit signals transformed into light waves. Fibre optics technology is widely used for local area networks. Fibre optic cables provide many more enhanced features to voice cabling than the former cables. They have much greater bandwidth than the traditional metal cables. Fibre optics can transmit more data at high speeds. The fibre optic cables are less susceptible to interference compared to the metal cables. Fibre optic cables are portable and easier for handling due to their thinner and lighter structure. The data transmission in fibre optic cable is in digital format. It helps the transmission and interpretation of data easier.

The future of voice cabling and networking lies in the hands of new generation cables. These new generation cables will improve the business Network Cabling by enhancing the advanced technologies.

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PBX Maintenance – Diagnoses, Reports and Resolves PBX Issues.

The term PBX stands for Private Branch Exchange and it refers to a telephone network owned by a private individual within an enterprise. PBX system switches calls between the enterprise users on local lines and other users in order to share a small no of external phone lines. Most of the business enterprises today are focusing more on PBX telephony systems because it will eliminates the cost of maintaining separate lines for each user to the telephone company’s central office. In the PBX system the number that one has to dial for calling someone is composed of only 3 or 4 digits. This makes PBX telephony system more easy and comfortable to use.  

          The real challenge exists in the installation and maintenance areas of the PBX system. It is because we know that installing a PBX system and upgrading a traditional telephony system to PBX system is a tedious task unless performed by experienced persons. Most of the companies make contracts and agreements with the customers regarding the PBX Maintenance and support. 

PBX Installation

PBX installation is easy and efficient compared with the installation of traditional local phone networks. This is because traditional phone system installation is a tedious and time consuming process. Hence nowadays a detailed plan is formulated ahead. It is completely based upon the company’s business needs. Proper testing of the system against the business requirements is very essential. After testing the installation phase is carried out in a systematic and efficient manner. 

 

PBX Maintenance and Support

Maintenance of a PBX system means continuous diagnosis of the system, reporting issues regarding the system and resolving the issues properly.  This service monitoring also requires an efficient plan. Major factors to be included in this task are 24x7 monitoring, full time support from the staffs, customized and instant responses, replacement programs, backup and manufacturer supports, etc.

Wireguys is one of the expert companies which provide adequate PBX support and maintenance services. Wireguys tries to make the installation task unobtrusive as possible. The degree of excellence and quality is very high in the case of Wireguys. Also their trained field technicians provide 24x7 monitoring and the instant and relevant solutions for all sorts of PBX issues. Ahead of these services Wireguys also provides PBX system relocation services.

Voice Cabling Promises Long Distance Communication at High Speed Data Rate

                                  Fig 1: cables used for voice cabling purposes

Lots of technological advancements are occurring in communication and networking field day by day.  Introduction of network cables and network cabling caused the initial revolutionary leap in the telecommunication and business field. Later revolutionary growth was undertaken by the invention of voice cabling. It made a wide technological advancement. 

The term Voice Cabling can be simply defined as the wiring of a building that allows basic communication using devices such as telephone lines (land-based phone lines), modems, or analog lines. This wiring is highly required for telephone cabling or for network applications which enable interactive-voice communications. Voice Cabling is used for long distance communication by transmitting audio signals (voice) over cables at high speeds. Copper or fiber cables are usually used for carrying data to long distances. Normally voice cabling uses standard telephone jacks and voice-graded wire to connect land-based phone lines to the local communication systems. The main advantage is that they can carry larger amounts of data at higher speeds. 

Different Types of Voice Cabling 

Several new varieties of voice cabling have been developed in last few years to enhance the world wide telecommunication standards. 

• Category 1 cabling was very simple and common. It was mainly used for basic telephone communication and for wiring doorbells. In recent days this category cabling is no longer identified by the Telecommunication Industry Association.

• Category 3 cabling is used as the current standard for voice cabling. It is a copper unshielded twisted pair cable. It can transmit data at a rate of 10mb/second. Cat3 cabling was initially used by network administrators for their computers.

• Category 5 cabling is another category of unshielded twisted pair cable which is used for high signal reception. Hence it is suitable for long distance communications. A newer version of Cat5 cabling is recently introduced for enabling VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) transmission. Cat5 cabling is commonly known as ‘Ethernet Cable’.

The most recent categories of voice cabling are Cat5E, Cat6 FT61.

Fig 2: Cat5 cable used for voice cabling

The major thing to be considered while using voice cabling is that we must choose an ideal service provider for the design, Installation and Maintenance of the network. Selecting experienced and knowledgeable service providers will help to avoid future networking issues. 

Wireguys is a best option for the entire voice cabling design, installation and maintenance. Wireguys provides perfect voice cabling and voice data cabling solutions that matches with the needs of your business. At any time the expert engineers will assess the current cabling system and if required will install a upgraded network using most modern technology in voice cabling such as Cat5, Cat5e and Cat6 FT61.