How To Cable a New Construction

hi this is Jim Gibson with cable supply.com and we're down here in San Diego California today and we're going to be looking at one of our installs it's a small suite you're just doing some tenant improvements there's no furniture in the way of any of the install and on top of that we're going to look to see what some of the technicians are doing and how they're installing the cable as you can see with the with the push Pole the advantages of saving time going up and down a ladder so as you can see you can extend it out and you don't always have to make it click there is little detents in there that can hold it still doesn't really have to hold it stiff but it goes further and further and further and as you can see come on in here so pop the ceiling tile half way so you can see it's right there it's going all the way over to here so the technician now is going to grab it and he's going to collapse it and right behind you you could see it there for a second there it is now he's going to pull it and collapse it now remember this ceiling tile doesn't have to be open this is open just for the video so he's pulling all the cables with a pull string if you need to pull more cables in the future he has the ability to do that so think of all the time that's been saved now he's went 20 20 foot or more he can actually go further with that I believe I did check the footage but this one's open so you could view the cable as it goes by so all that time now has been saved now there's an obstruction in the ceiling here it's a makeshift firewall it's not really a serious firewall and what has happened is is this used to be a different suite here the firewall would have went all the way down to the floor but this is not according to code this firewall but a rate sometimes they just leave them up in the ceiling when they put the two Suites together so you're going to run into them and that's no longer a fire well that's no longer going to protect anything at this rate so you know we can go through it at any distance but firewalls if you're going to breach the firewall there are certain code issues when you breach them and you have to breach them a certain way you can't leave big holes in them and if I'm right I don't know if the camera can get it but over here you can see a big hole in the firewall that is obviously not a firewall are remnants of an old one one other thing you do too is when you pull cable you do things like this every so many feet and this is a service loop and so when I pull on this you're going to see the cable over there come up if I can get it to come up and I don't want to don't want to damage the tile here but that's what you would do and then you pull the cable this way a little bit and then the other person pulls the cable a little more and so you're doing a service loop so every so many feet you want that service loop in there until you get the cable all the way to where you want it to go and then of course you pull either back the excess or you pull the extra cable all the way down that's a whole idea of a service loop where one technician pulls on it see up here is a firewall and you can see it there's fire caulk there that too so if there's a fire in one suite there's not going to be it's it's going to have a hard time getting to the other side but if you look down here follow me down to here you see we have metal boxes on this that's because this is a firewall you got to have metal boxes on this and then this is a low voltage metal box it's used for the low voltage side notice it's close to it's close to the 110 block and right here is your beam so that it's being separated you always want to pull the your cable down in into a different area than the 110 so the 110 is going up this way cable the other cable is going up this way and you have a metal wall going right here but again this is what you want and it's have conduit go and all the way up to the top fairly easy to shoot a cable down there and but you want that on the firewall you don't need that anywhere else so just go look at another Jack over here where it is not a firewall and you'll see the difference between the two Jack's let's take a look are the the two brackets now this is a low voltage bracket that's not a firewall so it's open in the back and you have insulation there and all that's we're keeping things quiet not actually warm or cold or anything but keep them quiet between the two rooms and the electrician was nice enough to put a pull string there if he didn't put a pull string there'd be no problem use your fishing rods it goes right through that insulation only takes a second more I really like this idea of nice and neat here the electrician did a really nice job and you always of course it's always nice to have your your voice and data outlets right next to your Jack Chris obviously when you plug into your computer you're going to have to plug in the power also it's nice to have it next to each other in my opinion you should right now when the suite is is empty like it is you can look around here this is the time to do the cabling this is the most convenient time to do the cabling and in reality just to add a couple extra jacks this is the time to do it before furniture is in before people are moving in and all we want to do today is we just want to pull cable don't want a jack in some cases would look like we already have but we just want to pull cable because when they come in and do the painting when they come in and do the carpet that can mess up your jacks so this is pre cable today and then we're going to set finish later on either tomorrow or later on today and set and finish is when you put the faceplate on and the jacks that's set and finish and then you punch it down in the back so the first phase of cabling is pre cable and that's what they're doing now over here they're pulling the cable and they're going to pull it down each of those jacks that are open those low-voltage jacks that are firewall that have metal brackets in the back and that's called pre cable so once all the cables pulled in the ceiling tiles are back up and everything else once they do all that then it's that's the end of your pre cable then your next step is the set finish and then the last step is to test and label and that's what they'll be doing later look down here and what you're going to see is the pull boxes now notice that we have all the boxes together and then they're going out and spread out through the Sweden now that's the way you're supposed to do it is it technically wrong to do it another way no it's not technically wrong but this is the best way to do it when you're pulling cables so this is best practice is to put all the boxes in in one area and pull from where the backboard is going to be so and if you notice on these cables we have blue and white now that's us our custom generally speaking blue is the most popular color out there and white is the second most popular we use the blue and white because it's easier for us to distinguish between voice and data now both of them are cat 5e CMR so it's not a problem it's just a different color and makes it easier for us we're pulling one cable one blue and one white cable to each location because that's what the customer is requested one voice and one data now at this point it looks like the customer is going to have a digital phone system rather than a voice over IP system with voice over IP it wouldn't matter we would need to separate the voice from the data cables because they're all going to go to a backboard I'm sorry they're all going to go to a patch panel and labeled individual jacks and it wouldn't matter what you plugged in there either a voice or data because it's separates in programming and so and of course a VoIP telephone is nothing more than a small computer in reality but in this case the customer is asked for digital phones which is absolutely fine digital phones are at the peak of their tech nology there's there's a ton of features that they have it's a great system and is it's relatively inexpensive and they're reliable so the difference between VoIP and data that's for another video but today we're doing it for a digital telephone system and voicemail system and then the other cable is going to be for the data come on in here I'm going to show you some things here that you should have okay and as you can see the cables going up and this is where we're pulling from so we're pulling from here and in reality if you want an easier pull we're pulling really far this is where you would put your your pulley little pulleys from Jameson second man pulley really makes a lot easier to pull they've decided not to do it because all the runs are relatively short now what we have back here is a piece of wood and this is called the backboard and this is where we're going to place the sixty-six blocks so we're going to place the patch panels but it's also a place where you can put your routers and switch and the other data equipment is there other data equipment out there between B I guess there is firewalls routers switches a telephone system is going to go on here now there's a little bit of management that needs to be done here on the back board because we've walked in to back boards where someone has taken their equipment and put it dead center right in the middle and we don't have enough room anywhere to put a phone system I don't have enough room anywhere to put your switch or your your patch panel so you got to be courteous for the person who comes behind you keep it to the side if you can keep it close to the side and therefore it gives extra room somewhere else on the back board for another piece of equipment that's going on or if you're doing everything on a backboard then manage it just don't throw it up there remember neatness counts and voice and data cabling because when it comes time to troubleshoot if it's not neat you're going to have a nightmare and you're going to have problems so keep everything neat as possible one on the back board usually these back boards are 5/8 inch back boards from you know you get them at Home Depot things like that one product we do not sell on our website that is backwards because you get them at Home Depot now there's some state laws some states not all I should say very few that require the back board to be a fire rated back board don't know why it's really not that important it's this piece of wood it's not very big here and in this case it's just put right up against plywood I mean right up against a board plaster board so in this case it's put right up against plaster board and if you notice they put them in such a way the connection that it's going right into the studs now remember if this was if this was not just particle board and it's not just cement let's start that over again okay so you notice that this 5/8 inch board and you can put thicker boards there I wouldn't put a smaller and I'll tell you the reason why this right here is cement it looks like particle board but it's cement so what they've done is they've anchored it using probably a halti gun you know that's where they push it in and it has a little 22 round rifle round in it blank not not real round but a blank and at the end of that thing you put your nail that's used for for my cement so you put you put in air and you fire it and it it tightens it right up so they have attached it well and they have attached it on the edges which is nice not necessary but it is nice and they've put in more than just one or two so in this case it has six seven seven of them in here and that's nice that's nice and strong and everything else now the reason why you need a thick backboard especially on the on the cement is when you start using drywall screws to attach your 66 block and other things in there and that's what you should use drywall screws because they really quick and it's easy you can use them when your your drill but the reason why you want that thick is if your drywall saw a drywall screws are large what's going to happen is it's going to go through the wood it's going to hit the cement it will not puncture or go through the cement but it will pull the backboard away from the cement so you'll start to bulge and pretty soon get enough of those screws in there it's going to pop these these nails out it's go take them right out of the cement so you want to use short screws thick backboard when you're going up against a cement backing in the back of the backboard but this backboard gives us something that we can mount equipment to it's really hard to mount bolded the equipment and all the screws you got to put in these things just to cement or even to a drywall sometimes I seen people mount things to drywall and someone hits it real hard it pulls right out okay so you always should use a backboard that's attached to cement or a backboard when it's on drywall it should be on the when the beams on the two by fours or the metal two by fours to hold it in place so again short screws thick backboard when it comes to when it comes to cement now you can have longer screws if you want if this was drywall because they'll go right through the drywall but you want small screws thick backboard and this is really nice also the switch over here the electrician has given us a nice outlet and this is nice this is fine this is great and we could probably grab the ground off of this also even though I personally like independent grounds this would work fine this is nice so nice of him to put it way in the corner that's where you want it you want it in the corner and so as soon as they're done here what they're going to do is when I pull when they pull the cable they're going to pull a little excess and they're going to put a service loop in it like this and put that up there and the reason why you want to put a service loop up there is because every once in a while you put your patch panel in there and you'll punch it down and you're 66 block and it looks nice and neat but up there you got a service loop so a nice little turn up there connected to maybe a beam cross beam or a rafter because what happens is something happens in the future which may be tomorrow and you have to move those 66 blocks and those patch panels this gives you that flexibility to move them so always put a little bit of a service loop up there you know one or two loops at the most sometimes I've seen people that have put like 50 foot up there it's like massive amounts of cable not a good idea just like that that's enough and remember when you're doing tie wraps on these things you don't sent them down as tight as you can because it does affect the cable and its ability to transmit data it doesn't affect voice that much but does affect the other thing so this is a nice nice little closet this is a small install anyway one thing I like about this a little bit of a ventilation here they're going to put some vents here it's nice about that because it gives it some air really doesn't get that hot in there to be honest with you and since it's surrounded by air conditioned walls and things like that it's going to keep cool you don't need an air conditioner in something that's small you just need air circulation through so it doesn't get really hot and humid and things like that so the cable going up there comes over to here and remember talked about a service loop in this loop what you do is you pull the cable as you can see it's moving over there okay and then once you get that loop here then someone else further down the line also pulls and it gives you a little bit of every so many feet it gives you a little bit of cable management helps you pull when you're all done notice this loop goes away you don't push this up into the ceiling it'd be a mess you need to get into some do whatever it's all yours do you mind if we videotape while you do it and I know when you're looking at it if you're a novice when it comes to cabling it looks like you're wasting cable he's pulling out this excess cable here and he's this going to cut it off it's like why do you need so much cable well you know the most expensive cable on earth is the one it's one inch too short and so we always do this and cut off excess and you can see the excess on the ground there so if you sit there and you take this and you take this out some of this is going to be turned into that service loop that's up in the ceiling the rest is going to be used to nicely dress the cable in so of course we're going to cut off probably about five foot of that and we're going to recycle it I also notice the fact that each of the technicians have their tools right on their belt it when you're when you're cutting and you're doing work and everything else you want to use those tools you want them right there at your hand and use a lot of these electrical tapes to tie cables together this is not unusual notice that the cable is staggered and you want to do that so it doesn't catch on anything and it gives you a smaller access area so you only even though it's three cables there it's only one cable thick at the beginning and pulling three is no big deal but when you start pulling in five or more cables ten cables you need to do it that way I want to show you the floor plan there so it's clearly marked voice data where the different locations are and of course I want to keep the confidentiality of the customer so I'm covering up certain areas there who they are customers desert deserve your confidentiality so never talk about one company to another and what an one company is doing if they're your customer they deserve you to reveal any secrets about their expansion or their what they're doing but this is a nice little floor plan here where it gives you all the details of everything phone numbers and on I can't show you too much of that but remember customers deserve that that that you know maybe they are not too concerned about it but you should be as an installer so don't talk about one company to another company it is inappropriate and it's unprofessional and you never want to talk about expansions things like that where they're growing where they're opening offices and all because that's sometimes is considered confidential information and if the company wants to announce it they can announce it but you should not be the one describing how many phones they have how many data pools where they're opening how they do business what type of servers they have what type of software they're running even though you may think it's some cool ideas that they're doing that's just between you and that companies should never be shared with another company okay here's some pull-string inexpensive stuff that comes in like boxes of 5000 foot know and we always do pull strings and a reason why is if you notice we have five or six boxes in the other room there and so we're pulling five or six cables the issue is though with that is what happens if when I'm done with these five or six cables and I have five or six more cables there and five or six more cables over there well the issue at that point is if I'm not using pull string then I have to fish again all the way through the ceiling and and you know something every time you're up in that ceiling you could possibly cause damage to the ceiling tiles another thing you want to be careful of is sometimes your hands really gets dirty especially in an older building and you start putting back ceiling tiles and on sudden you got fingerprints over to place so keep your hands clean when it's time to put the ceiling tiles back if you're in a dirty building wash your hands often because it doesn't look good when you're leaning up against the wall when you're on top of the ladder everybody knows it's you because it's the only one that can reach that high because you're on top of a ladder so keep your hands clean now the other thing we use and I don't think we're using it too much because we have electrician actually provided pull strings but these fishing rods and we talked about them before and all you need to do on these is you just go in and you go right up you attach your cable and you pull it down remember it's cable pulling not cable pushing so you don't go up and push it down put you know attach the cable to the front and then try to push it down through the insulation it won't work if it does it's going to take you twice as long so what you want to do is you want to push up not down another thing I think I've talked about this on other videos is that you notice we're not numbering any of these cables here we don't need to we can identify them later and this whole idea that somehow you have to have one jack one over there inject two here and then three and then four and go completely around the room in order is this not professional now tell you the reason why it takes twice as long to do that because you've got to figure it out at the other end which cable is one what did I write on the cable where did I write don't need to do that all you need to do is just pull the cable punch it all down nice and neat and then identify the cable based on where it appears either on the sixty-six block or on a patch panel so this might be patch panel a port five over here might be patch panel a port ten so it doesn't matter because a person looks at the label and it says a ten they know they go right back and do a ten so usually what happens is if when you're inexperienced you do this thing in a circle where you keep track of the cables and you're going to waste time it's it's just a waste of time don't do it and sometimes customers request that the problem is what happens if between cable one and number and cable two six months from now they want another cable there and so now you have what it's out of order it doesn't work so just pull the cable punch it down identify it we as little LED identifiers identify is it just like this you label both ends you test everything completely and then you're out of this suite and it's done professional and that's how it's done it's done professionally like that so do it that way don't do it silly wise and try to keep everything in order that's not it and you can do it but it's going to take twice as long and it's useless once you pull the next cable three or four months down the road so in this case all he's doing is just pushing it right through the Flex doesn't even have to use a tape fish tape just pushes it right through the Flex and once in a while it gets caught right on that edge really pain so now as you have to stick your finger up like Rick's doing there to inside and and see if you can wiggle it around a little bit most of times it just goes real fast this goes real fast but there's a special kind of a fish rod that's used for that that's very very flexible it's better than the fishing rods the fiberglass fishing rods that we use it's a plastic rod and it goes right up and right down now remember you don't see any boxes out here there's no cable boxes out here all the cable boxes are back in the phone room that's where they belong so you pull from the phone room out here you don't pull from out here to the phone room that's not the way it's done always pull from the phone room to the jacks and remember you're pulling cable not pushing cable so you don't want to push cable with any of your tools like with where is it or push pull in fact let's talk about the push-pull this one's kind of beat-up it's really old and these things are like you know even though the end is broken off it's still usable so as you pull it out pulled out right here you can see it you can get it to snap if you want most of times if you pulled out real hard like that snaps or if it doesn't snap it just stays put so you don't even have to snap it but if you see how far I could go look at that so you know it goes quite a distance across that ceiling now before these things are out you have to take every other ceiling tile out and fish it over and fish it over or what you did is you use one of these fishing rods to do it and yeah they're just so flexible they really can't get that far you see how it's bending you can't kind of like get it to stay up now you can use it don't get me wrong it will work but it's a pain because it bends so easily which is great when you're going up through insulation and you want to come out the top or you're going from the top down through insulation and then you pull the cable through after you grab the cable but this look at this this doesn't Bend so I can go right over as I'm up in the ceiling like this you see I can go right over all the stuff that's up in the ceiling knee the air vents the the different cables and all and I can push it right over top now when I get to the other end I'll show you what happens at the other end so I say I'm up in the ceiling here what I'm going to do is I'm going to collapse it remember I don't have a lot of room up in the ceiling so I can't really pull it out and I don't want to cause that stress on the t-bar by yanking it down so all I do is just collapse it and as I collapse it the cable at the other end is being pulled towards me so if you're a professional cable er you know this will pay for itself so I'm up in the ceiling it collapses I can pull it down or if I have to go further yet I don't have to collapse at all I just keep on pushing it further yet and of course the cable attaches right to the end on some of our so we've actually broke off this this end and it does everything breaks especially the way we treat this stuff you put your cable here use tape tape it around you still use it it's the shell itself is almost indestructible that's what's so nice about it but it is a tool if you're professional you get the right tools it's going to save you the time even on the first job it will start paying you back if you have the right tools plus you'll look more professional your job will go quicker easier you won't be staying on an eight-hour job you won't be there for 16 hours doing the work so if you save an hour and every job let's say you save two hours in every job how long is it going to be until you can afford to pay one of these often and it pays for years later it pays it's pays for itself the same thing with the fishing poles that I showed you they're great going up and down ceilings but remember you don't push cables up you don't push cables down you always attach the cable to the end and pull it through I really like this electrician though who's given us not only a P ring these are called P rings P for plastic ring or plaster ring but at the same time he's also given us a really nice pull string just we're going to go up here we're going to attach some cables and we're going to pull it through now one other thing if you notice too that when we pull cable we start not only at the computer room but we pull the longest cable first and then we do the short ones last and the reason why is if you pull to the longest to the furthest end where you're supposed to be and you're using your pull string your next pull you don't have to pull so far and the next probably not to pull so far so it's less and less and less and you're spreading them out in the ceiling going to the jacks that you need so your path figure out your path figure out your path to the furthest jack from from your patch panel or your sixty-six blocks and then pull to that one first and then pull the shorter ones after that so this is going to be one of the last Jack's that we're going to pull to because it's so close to the phone room that we're actually going to pull this last and the pull strings are out there in the ceiling so it's easy remember because it was pulled all the way to the other end so we just grabbed the pull string right here this is a low ceiling and then we can pull the cable right to here drop it right down into that area there some practical things if you notice our ladders we don't use cheap ladders someone gets hurt on annex and then on a cheap ladder workers comp charges things like that so we buy top-of-the-line ladders we clearly mark them with our company because if we're in here with other trades the other trades have the same manufacturer they're going to confuse their ladder with our ladder and our equipment so you got to clearly mark all your equipment in this case these ladders are top of line now there's one other thing about it too is these are fiberglass and so the aluminum ladders if you run up on aluminum of course this has aluminum rungs but this is insulated so you stand less chance that if you hit a live wire that you know and again I'm not electrician but I'd rather be on an insulated ladder than to be up there possibly touching live wires top of the line it's not cheap one it's not the cheap fiberglass ones either there's a couple versions that are very cheap you want to get the the expensive ones that will last you 10 20 years they're solid you want a couple of them you always want to bring up a couple you don't to be sharing ladders with people so you want to bring up more than one ladder even if there's just two people cable and there's nothing wrong bringing up three or four ladders and just space them around use them whenever you need them again that's the same principle as having your tools right there on your on your belt so you can just reach and get them I'm on top of the ladder and I don't have my tools and your wire cutter I got to get down and get the wire cutter then I cut it then I need to get down and get the tape the electrical tape to tie it off and so forth and so on again when you run into firewalls like this is a firewall and it's between the sweet and the walkway the hallway and you can tell it's a firewall because electrician was kind enough to put in the metal box when those type of things I usually have a Flex conduit it's a conduit that that bends back and forth it's not the rigid conduit and sometimes it's hard to get through the Flex conduit with a fishing rod so we use nylon fishing out now if you notice we're going from the bottom up and then we're going to attach the cable and pull it down so go ahead you see where at the end you can see the sticking out there okay so now the technician is going to go up and take his three cables you know if you're going to pull to a position you should at least pull two cables ahead and I'm only going to pull so much of it cuz he's going to leave a little bit of a service loop up there so tell me when I'm pulled enough okay now this is this may appear to be excessive it is not this is what you want to pull you want to pull a little bit out from the wall look up there you can see it's left the service loop up there also kept most of the cable off the ceiling tiles when you're not ready to Jack what you want to do is you just want to wrap these up like this now you want to wrap up in such a way that someone can't pull them back from the other end so if you put them in like that you're okay and it doesn't matter if someone spray paints this or anything else it has no consequence because remember we did not label these things there's no labeling on here there's no marks telling us what cable it is because we're going to identify that cable later after we put it in so that's that's what it is there's no identification here so you can spray paint over and everything else I remember a big project that someone did then I recommend it they not label and they did label and they punched it all down and they added extra Jack's and before they actually jacked it the pull extra cable I mean before they actually ejected the guy came in and sprayed all the cables so it completely confused them it was a large job and completely confused them what table was going where and I kept one emphasize it to them but they didn't listen that you don't need to label these things he just identified them when they when it's after you Jack them and after you put them in the patch panel so this one is this a pull string as you can see with an open plaster ring sometimes called a pee ring and you can see the string is right there and we already pulled the cable to the location low voltage cables don't always have to be in conduit and when they're in an office setting like this so when are in an office setting when we're in an office setting you don't always have to use conduit now if you're in a warehouse you have to use rigid conduit according to code in your state but in California has to be a rigid conduit I take that back a little not low voltage but regular the tricity has to be in conduit but low voltage does not have to be in conduit so you got to cut some of that out you ready okay nice enough that electrician great electrician on this side by the way did a nice job this is really a two-man job one has to push the cable down or line the cable up excuse me now push it down and the other one has to pull down on it sure how's that nice length you're not punching down right up next to the wall he actually has some length you can push it back in there when you're all done give you some room the troubleshoot the jack in the future or if you have to replace the jack gives you extra room a lot of this would be cut off we won't even on take this just cut it off and recycle the copper okay this is your average phone room and let's look at some other things in other videos I've noticed I told you you put little loops in there see little loops this makes it nice because if you follow this loop you'll see down here you'll see it moving so you got your little loop here and as you can see this wire is moving so that's how you trace these wires and this is why you put loops in them goes across here goes down here you grab this you pull up on it and you can see that it's going down there that's a big loop that's pretty sloppy some of these sixty-six blocks have been abandoned in fact all these have been abandoned which is absolutely fine here's one ten blocks this is a unprofessional mess if they're using it phone room is pretty normal when you see all this type of cabling and all this is pretty much what you see in phone rooms sometimes you find that the sub lunch that subway lunch that someone had last week or the chocolate bar wrappers or the soda cans in here also but remember if you're a professional keep it neat now of course these red boxes over here there's the phone company boxes that they come in and and they're called RJ 21 X's and they are 66 blocks but red covers on them that's all and it's how they bring in phone numbers and everything there as you can see that orange up here this orange piping that's called inner duct it's not conduit it's called inner duct and it protects the fiber-optic cable that's in it and by code in California you got to put fiber-optic cable and introduct now the reason we're in here today is we're going to pull the the feed cable from the phone room here where the phone company brings in telephone lines and we're going to pull it to our main distribution frame that we've been dealing with in the videos that you have seen so far so we're going to use 25 pair cable here's a 25 pair cable and the technician can get any and start pulling it as I talked about 25 pair cable and someone on the other side going to grab that cable let's talk a little bit about that pipe that he's pushing through right there and that pipe that's there is a is this a rigid conduit you have it and it's for a fire break he's talking to the person on the other side yeah pull them through so he's feeding the cable along with a cat5e cable for your other is that way this data circuit John answer okay 25 pair cable is the standard industry when you need more than just a few pairs and it's usually used for feet cable of some sort it's it's not that expensive what was kind of interesting years ago was that I worked for a company and they kept one asking me to pull four pair cables from one floor to another and finally after about the third time I suggested that since they seemed to need cables between the third and the first floor all the time I would recommend that we pull a 25-pair cable from the third floor to the first floor and explain to them that the labor involved the pole 25-pair cable is just slightly more than what it takes them to install a single four pair cable and the twenty five pair cable is not that much more expensive than a four pair cable and of course the lady at that point was very upset that I would offer to over cable her building sometimes I don't understand but they went on and month after month we kept on pulling more and more for pair cable what they needed that month to eventually we had I don't know ten or twenty four pair cables going from the third to the fourth floor glad we had pull string in there but the idea is use 25 pair cable especially for your pots lines and they buy them in big reels thousand foot reels like that really very inexpensive very inexpensive to buy compared to regular computer for pair cable and very practical so we always keep numerous rolls like this in our office this is obviously the phone room we were just in and so both of these walls here are firewalls as you walk down the hallway here you can see both walls or firewalls and the ceiling is a firewall also but it's open from that suite to this we have a pathway so we're going to go through the two Suites through that pathway but this is a firewall so if there's a fire people can escape they're not quite you know it could be firing on both sides they're not going to have a problem they can get right out the door the cable is going to come across overtop of the firewall it's going to come down and then once it comes down it's going to come through here and we're going to fish it back to the IDF notice that string a lot of people wonder what that string is for well it's for slicing the outside covering the plastic covering see pulls right off now and it gives you a cleaner install when you do it this way you pull all the way back as far back as you need in other words he's not pulling all the way back to that tie wrap he's just pulling back as far back as you possibly needs and then cutting off the excess plastic there and now he's trimming up the cable but he's keeping the twist on the cable as close as possible to the punch down area and you want to do that you don't want on twist the whole thing as far back as you can no just just as much as you need you can see that right now and punch down and we're using here a swing gate or a standoff bracket both names are fine and the patch panel is attached on one end and he just has it swung out he's using the wall actually is a stop when he punches down but it says untwisting just as much as he needs and then pushing it down it's all in the color code that's right there on the patch panel now he's going to punch down so some people have asked the well if I'm using cat5e cable and I'm using cat6 jacks does that make it a cat 6 installation and the answer is no it makes it a cat 5e so when any one component within the system is lower than the other components it's considered the the lower of the readings so this is a cat 5e installation and and we have cat5e patch panel and we have cat 5e jacks so it's cat 5e from one end to the other you you so what we're using here is a cable comb and that's a nice little system that's already on the cable and it straightens out the cables now another thing you want to do is especially on computer cables is is use velcro tie wraps here not regular nylon tie rest because what happens with them is a tight and the cable down too much and when you do that you can damage the cable where the velcro won't twylar plus you can add cables in the future without cutting all the tie rods and restarting over again so this cable comb snaps apart you can see it you put the cables in there and then as you pull down it does what its name tells you it combs the cable did you once you shut up shut what off okay why doesn't hurt it doesn't well and I feel users back up or something so just given an eye distance every six to eight inches 12 inches maybe notice he has a lot of extra cable there which looks like it's a lot of extra cable on the ground and this is necessary it's not a waste it's expensive cable on earth is the one it's one inch too short and it makes it easier when you have lengths like this to do cable management we use these cable combs all the time it really does a really nice job now the velcro fireman rolls he cut off what you need that's the most convenient way sometimes you can cut a bunch ahead of time for you start a job you can always reposition the velcro later and cabling neatness counts we use fishing rods go right up the wall very easily be careful and then you attach the cable so what's interesting here is that we're doing to our J 11s or using one cable so the blue pair is the first jack on the left upper left and the orange pair yep got that backwards I'm up for the orange pair is the second one and that's going to be in the upper right and it's okay these things snap out and snap right back in you don't cut off the other K let's leave it there like that wind it around itself and that allows you the ability in the future to add another jack without cutting the cable now doing the data jack okay what we're looking at here is we put in two jacks here because there was more jacks and one faceplate would handle a faceplate can handle up to six they needed eight here face plate up face plate up to six Jack's right here in one face plate but that's the max I needed eight so we put two face plates here but the thing we did is we had to cut this face face plate in and there's videos on that how to cut it in so we had to cut a hole here and you can see the thing where it came out of the hole there and but he's protecting the carpet with this piece of plastic here sometimes you can just take a piece of paper from the trash and you can put it here and use that and then when you're done all you need to do is just pick it up like this and then all your scrap goes with you customer would really like that see how clean that is now even though there's a lot of don't trash in here it's now preserved in the bag or the paper and face plates on the wall nice and neat okay this is a great device it's really going to save you time and these are little LEDs that we're putting into the patch panel obviously patch model is completed and it's cabling and these little LEDs will light up when I when I plug in the power supply into a jack and you'll see it here shortly and this saves tons of time here and and our power supply is plug it right into the jack and wham-o there it is cable 14 we did not mark two cables think at that time we saved we didn't mark the cables that doesn't really matter if they're in order no it doesn't really matter it just matters and when someone walks up to this jack it says 14 here and then go right back to the patch panel and plug in their patch cords where it says 14 so that gives them the world of answers you don't need to put them in what I hate that when people think that's a really an intelligent way to do it right on the cable and put them out there there are exceptions to that and that's when you're not using a patch panel maybe you're running two or three cameras or something up in the ceiling you know things like that I still don't think you shouldn't you should label them but the standard should be just plugging in the power supply which lights the LED and David you can go do the next one and as David goes to the next one let's look at the patch panel watch it laid up he's just writing them down on the floor plan now seven he's going to go back and label each one thirteen you cannot tone and probe out the jacks that fast no matter how good you are you can't do it 9si it's nice now you know how many have left the test so you're not retesting these if you're atoning Pro via to go all through these again be here forever so this is not meant to test beyond the fact that as the cable actually attached hey thank you for watching the video really appreciate it watch some of our other videos check them out they have a lot of great technical information for you and everything else and and please you know what helps me afford these type of videos is when people buy from my website so if you need any of this equipment if you purchase it from the website I can produce more technical videos this is Jim Gibson with cable supply.com and hey thanks for watching hi this is Jim with Gables supply.com hi this is jim from cable supply.com hi this is Jim with cable supply.com and today I'm going to show you how to cut a hole in the drywall hey guys thanks for tuning in to this YouTube is some innocent

Channel: CableSupply.com

Views: 465,705

Keywords: Construction (Project Phase), punchdown, punch down, 25 pair cable, ethernet cable, voice cable, patch panel, new construction, push pole, Cable, How-to (Media Genre), 24 port patch panel

Id: U7slIFPb124

Length: 56min 3sec (3363 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 20 2014