RE: Help on CAT 5 Voice and Data

["Steve Gordon" <steve.gordonsolutions@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks for everybody's input into this one. I will try to get hold of the
book.

The detail of it is that I'm about to move house and I understand about the
cable running and terminations but, what I'm a little confused with is the
patch panel end.

Example:

My understanding is that if all my Cat 5 ports are wired back to a patch
panel somewhere I can use such devices as mod taps on the phone appliance
end to allow standard phones to connect in to the RJ45's. How do I connect
at the patch panel end? My guess is that I need to dedicate one patch panel
to Phone/Voice and daisy chain the line connection across and simply patch
to a hub for data connections.

Does this sound correct?

Thanks again Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: nigel@xxxxxxx
[mailto:nigel@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 03 January 2001 19:15
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Help on CAT 5 Voice and Data



On 03-Jan-2001 Steve Gordon wrote:
> I'm looking to improve my insufficient knowledge of networking
> using CAT5
> for both voice and data.

When you say voice, do you mean VoIP or analogue audio signals
connected directly to cat5.  What in particular do you need to know
about?  In my experience, analogue wiring over cat5 is a case of
connect it up and apply various 'tricks' to reduce hum and other
interference, networking is a case of connect it up and set up a
couple of settings on the PCs (IP address etc)- so I presume you want
some more detailed info?

Is it about how to plan a network, maximum cable lengths, how to pull
cables through walls, or software setup?

Nigel