Hello
I am working on a high-end custom home. For the Phone/TV outlets I have pulled two Cat 5E cables and one RG-6 coax to every opening.
The customer really wants full blanket coverage of his home, so it turn we have roughed in many, many phone/TV outlets in every room. Most all bedrooms have three rough-ins each.
Everything is brought back as a separate home run. Consequently, its really adding up in the mechanical room where I am going to put the telephone punch downs and splitters.
My plan was to punch one Cat5 E cable from each rough in on to a patch panel. Out in the field I would punch down a RG-45 module for a LAN. The other Cat5 was going to get broken out for separate phone lines for voice.
What is the best option for the other CAT 5E that is going to be used for voice? The owner works out of his home a lot. Would the best bet be a keyed system? I have heard that Panasonic makes a pretty good low-end system. He will have a total of three landlines coming into the house. Local home phone line, business line, fax line. He has also expressed interest in a intercom for the house, so would it just seem logical to install a low-end keyed system. He then could have all three lines in the office, and also the availability of intercom and line transfer to anywhere in the home. One thing I was wondering is the use of other phones. Does anybody make keyed phone system that the phones don?t look so office like? I would like to put one of these in, but for instance, in the kid?s rooms, would they be strapped down to some big bulky looking phone that has a speaker into it. And, also can you plug any one line phone into a jack around the house and get a normal line if needed?
Another question. With all the RG-6 cables coming back to the mechanical room, what the best idea for a clean looking wire management system. Do the make some sort of panel that you can terminate all your coax onto and then use a patch cord to plug and use as needed? I have about 28 coax cables coming back to the mechanical room, and I really want it to look right!
Now days its not really about just running a couple of phone lines back to the demark or running a few cables back to a splitter. I hope I have covered myself well, and was just wanting to get others opinion!
Thanks o
I am working on a high-end custom home. For the Phone/TV outlets I have pulled two Cat 5E cables and one RG-6 coax to every opening.
The customer really wants full blanket coverage of his home, so it turn we have roughed in many, many phone/TV outlets in every room. Most all bedrooms have three rough-ins each.
Everything is brought back as a separate home run. Consequently, its really adding up in the mechanical room where I am going to put the telephone punch downs and splitters.
My plan was to punch one Cat5 E cable from each rough in on to a patch panel. Out in the field I would punch down a RG-45 module for a LAN. The other Cat5 was going to get broken out for separate phone lines for voice.
What is the best option for the other CAT 5E that is going to be used for voice? The owner works out of his home a lot. Would the best bet be a keyed system? I have heard that Panasonic makes a pretty good low-end system. He will have a total of three landlines coming into the house. Local home phone line, business line, fax line. He has also expressed interest in a intercom for the house, so would it just seem logical to install a low-end keyed system. He then could have all three lines in the office, and also the availability of intercom and line transfer to anywhere in the home. One thing I was wondering is the use of other phones. Does anybody make keyed phone system that the phones don?t look so office like? I would like to put one of these in, but for instance, in the kid?s rooms, would they be strapped down to some big bulky looking phone that has a speaker into it. And, also can you plug any one line phone into a jack around the house and get a normal line if needed?
Another question. With all the RG-6 cables coming back to the mechanical room, what the best idea for a clean looking wire management system. Do the make some sort of panel that you can terminate all your coax onto and then use a patch cord to plug and use as needed? I have about 28 coax cables coming back to the mechanical room, and I really want it to look right!
Now days its not really about just running a couple of phone lines back to the demark or running a few cables back to a splitter. I hope I have covered myself well, and was just wanting to get others opinion!
Thanks o