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RE: Item on home automation from w2k news


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  • Subject: RE: Item on home automation from w2k news
  • From: "James Hoye" <james.hoye@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:49:35 -0000
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> When I was confronted with how to wire the house, experience in the IT
> world taught me that the only constant is change. So in ten years this
> area is going to look completely different from now. New industry
> standards will have come and gone. So the best thing you can do is
wire
> as much as possible, and even overdo it a bit, for example just in
case
> things like video-on-demand finally make it and you need high
> definition, high bandwidth to most of the rooms in your house.

> wiring was done. Structured wiring has 2 coax, 2 cat5 and 2 fiber
> strands nicely tucked together in a jacket.
>
> That means for every room you can plug a personal computer into a
100Mb
> Ethernet LAN, you can intelligently distribute both video and audio,
and
> optical in a later stage. I decided to keep the cost down and not trim
> out the fiber yet, but the Cat5 and coax will be hot from the start.
>
> The good thing of double Cat5 is that you can use the second 8 strands
> in there for phone, audio or other devices instead of a LAN. I also
had

LOL - this guy talks about overdoing the structured cabling and constant
change, then goes on to talk about running TWO CAT5s to each room -
allowing
a networked PC and a phone as a bonus.

James H



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