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In
service for
over 15 years!
On
site areas served:
Illinois & Wisconsin
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3/1/2010
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Avaya
IP Office R6 AVAILABLE NOW!
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12/15/2009
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Voice & Internet Circuits added to the services
we offer.
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Warehouse
& Office Cabling Expertise
CAT 5E, CAT 6, CAT 6e, Fiber Optic
School Campus Hotel Retail & Restaurant Cabling
Construction Build out Low-Voltage
Cabling / wiring
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Structured
Cabling
So
often we've walked into a site to find no cable
organization at all. Wires will be randomly hanging
down a wall, over doorways, across cubicles to connect
a phone or computer. Sometime,s it may be unavoidable
but, that's why they make wall track. A lot of times
too, we will see cable coming out of a wall with
no plate or covering to protect the cables (or the
wall). Then too, the cables are just tangled in
knots and running in every direction.
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Sad
to say, that even in a few organizations that tout
their computer savvy (techies), they have the worse
mess of patched networks that would scare most others
away. Server rooms should always be well managed
and organized with clean dressed cabling and properly
labeled items or even color coded patch cables,
which help in identifying network areas.
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we start a design,we must first understand the client's
requirements. What will they be connecting? Do they
need to physically separate networks? Printers? Servers?
Departments or centralized locations? What speed cable
should be considered for now and in the the future?
We'll look closely at the layout and length issues.
Does the distance between groups make it more practical
to have several wire centers? Is there distances that
require fiber backbone? Of course, what paths are
suitable to run and support cables. Most places have
stringent codes for low-voltage cabling or 'cordage'.
Surprisingly, construction designs don't often provide
for low-voltage (voice-data) in their plans, or its
an afterthought. This is very disturbing at times,
where locations should be 'stubbed' in before the
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the server room, there should be adequate or even
extra room to build a wire center. We will recommend
that wiring be on one rack with all the cable management
hardware, to support and organize the wiring. The
equipment in a second rack (side by side), which allows
for the ease of cabling with shorter cables and allows
access to the back of the patch panels unobstructed
by switches or equipment that often makes it very
difficult to punch down cabling. |
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Labeling
a network and documenting locations makes it so
much easier to troubleshoot problems quickly. Smaller
networks are usually simple to label. But with larger,
more complex campus networks, it is imperative to
fully document the design.
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