Hello,
One of my clients has just rented another office across the hall. Each office already has their own patch panels for their phone wiring. Now the new office needs to be connected to the PBX of the current office. Instead of running multiple sets of Cat3 wires to link up both offices, I was thinking of using a 25-pair Cat3 cable. I will be using BIX Distribution Connector. Should I use the 5-pair marking ones or the 4-pair marking ones ? Once done, when I do the cross-connect between the 25-pair to the workstation outlets, do I start hooking one pair after another or should I hookup the workstation outlets to each marking on the 25-pair Distribution Connector (ie at every 4 or 5 pair depending which distribution connector I choose) ? Logically I would just start at punching them down each pair one following the other like the ones from the CO. Also should a 25-pair cable be used for data jacks also ?
Now all of this depends on how many people will be working in the new office, it's fairly small. It might not be worth installing 2 25-pair wiring so I might end up just running multiple sets of wires. If I do decided to go with the 25-pair, I'm sure I'll be able to find the color sequence... I know I've seen it here multiple times.
Thanks
anthony
One of my clients has just rented another office across the hall. Each office already has their own patch panels for their phone wiring. Now the new office needs to be connected to the PBX of the current office. Instead of running multiple sets of Cat3 wires to link up both offices, I was thinking of using a 25-pair Cat3 cable. I will be using BIX Distribution Connector. Should I use the 5-pair marking ones or the 4-pair marking ones ? Once done, when I do the cross-connect between the 25-pair to the workstation outlets, do I start hooking one pair after another or should I hookup the workstation outlets to each marking on the 25-pair Distribution Connector (ie at every 4 or 5 pair depending which distribution connector I choose) ? Logically I would just start at punching them down each pair one following the other like the ones from the CO. Also should a 25-pair cable be used for data jacks also ?
Now all of this depends on how many people will be working in the new office, it's fairly small. It might not be worth installing 2 25-pair wiring so I might end up just running multiple sets of wires. If I do decided to go with the 25-pair, I'm sure I'll be able to find the color sequence... I know I've seen it here multiple times.
Thanks
anthony