Wiring Standars and Procedures

When it comes to the cable that the group is planning to use, we no longer have an argument on what type of cable we are going to use. The group instantly had this idea that the room won’t need a fiber-optic cable or even a shielded-twisted pair cable. The room performs a way too few operations as compared to a huge company which are probably the only ones that are in need of using fiber-optic cable. There is also no need of using a shielded-twisted pair cable simply because there is not going to be a wire which would have to go out of the room or might be exposed and be at great chances of being damaged. We have decided to just use an unshielded-twisted pair cable and just provide plastic molding covers to still have an assurance that the cables wont easily be damaged in case of any unnecessary incidents. The only matter we tackled thoroughly is what category of UTP cable we should use. We had a hard time choosing from CAT 5 and CAT 5e UTP cable because both categories of UTP cable matches the transmission rate capabilities of the NIC used by every workstation in the room. After a few minutes of discussion, we have agreed to use a CAT 5e cable which is the one at higher transmission rate. CAT 5e cable, we think, would be the right choice because when you come to think of it, with its transmission rate, it’s a better choice since its price and the price of CAT 5 cable is almost similar. In most cases CAT 5e cable is actually a few pesos more expensive than CAT 5 cable. For us it’s just at a reasonable price and using this category of UTP cable, we think, would help the network perform a lot better. We have also considered placing the wires on the floor and not on the ceiling.