Structured Cabling: Vertical and Horizontal Wiring Explained
Vertical Wiring
Vertical wiring is responsible for carrying the communication signals throughout the building. The vertical cable connects the switching cabinets of all floors to the horizontal UTP equipment.
Cabling room: UTP cable up to 800 meters long, FTP cable up to 800 meters long, and up to 90 meters for data transmission topology connecting the horizontal distribution panels.
Cabinets
This is the place where the communication cables converge. It contains wiring hubs, switches, rack-mounted cabinets, and is connected through distribution panels. There are several types of cabinets, depending on their location within the organization:
- Campus Distributor: Connects the various buildings.
- Building Distributor: Located in the equipment room.
- Horizontal Vendor: Where all connections end within a floor.
Organization of Cabinet Connections
The rack installation involves screwing all the components onto vertical bars that are conveniently perforated. The devices connect to the connection panels using reduced-length hoses. This method allows for easier organization of the cabling inside the communications cabinet.
Each connection will have a rosette for connecting the device or devices that want to integrate into the network. The work area includes everything that is connected from the rosette to the connecting devices themselves. These are different from the network area jobs.
If the cable is used to share voice, data, or other services, each of them must have a different connector on its own rosette connection. The cable from the rosette to the connecting device is called a whip and cannot exceed 3 meters.
Horizontal Area
From the rosette of each of the workspaces, there will be a cable to a common place called the centralized patch panel. This is where all the building wiring is centralized, where the wires coming from each of the premises where you have installed a network point converge.
Each rosette will be affixed to the building at one end, with its cable connection to the patch panel at the other. This is known as horizontal wiring. These are the cables used to connect each work area with the patch panel.
All horizontal cabling must be channeled appropriately. The channels chosen for this function are called gutters, which allow us a flexible way to trace the suitable routes from the work area to the patch panel.
The horizontal subsystem includes the following elements: The gutters go from the patch panel to the rosettes of each of the posts in the network. It could be divided into two types depending on the application to be given: the distribution runs through the different areas of the building, and they all go to the end rosettes. The lead wires, only 1 from each of the rosettes, are appropriate for the patch panel with interconnection devices, which are centralized in a locked communications cabinet. This will insulate the outside and also provides maintenance to have it all in one place.
Star topology, considering that each connection mechanism in the rosette is connected to its own mechanism attached to the patch panel cabinet communications.
The actual cable connection: The rosette workspace, mechanism attached to the patch panel cabinet of communications. Patch cables or hoses in the closet of comunicaciones. Las gutters.