2.3.1 Structured cabling System

Question 1

What is Structured Cabling?

Answer 1

Standard wiring plan for office networks (like American National Standards Institute/Telecommunications Industry Association/Electronic Industries Alliance 568).

Question 2

What is a Work Area?

Answer 2

Where users connect to the network (wall port).

Question 3

What is Horizontal Cabling?

Answer 3

Connects work areas to the Intermediate Distribution Frame (IDF) (usually on one floor).

Question 4

What is a Telecom Room?

Answer 4

Holds the Intermediate Distribution Frame (IDF) and network gear (switches).

Question 5

What is Backbone Cabling?

Answer 5

Connects Intermediate Distribution Frames (IDFs) to the Main Distribution Frame (MDF) (runs between floors).

Question 6

What are Entrance Facilities/Demarc?

Answer 6

Where the outside network connects to your inside network.

Question 7

intermediate Distribution frame

Answer 7

A passive wiring panel providing a central termination point for cabling. It cross-connects “vertical” backbone cabling (to the MDF) to “horizontal” wiring (to wall ports on each floor).