A Structured Wiring System is an organized arrangement of high quality cables and connections that distribute services throughout the home. This up-to-date home wiring system is necessary to take advantage of applications today such as digital TV, multiple phone lines, home Internet access, and prepares your home for rapidly emerging technologies.
A Structured Wiring System provides the required foundation for your home's electronic infrastructure. While most builders include a Basic Structured Wiring solution as a standard feature in their new homes, it is important that you verify with your builder what is included in your new home.
The Basic Structured Wiring solution typically provides distribution of telephone and TV services to a specified number of wired outlets in multiple rooms. To meet your lifestyle needs in entertainment, communications, and comfort, Covan Systems provides a suite of home solutions that will add value to your investment and enhance your home living experience.
A Structured Wiring System is comprised of a centralized hub of high speed cables built directly into your walls to give you access to the technology in your home. The wires and cables terminate in a steel Home Network Center which houses the various wires, cables, and modules that distribute video, voice, and data signals throughout the home to various wall outlets.
A Structured Wiring System has three main components:
- HOME NETWORK CENTER: Where it all comes together: structured wiring, applications, and services
- CONNECTION OUTLETS: Where you connect to your home wiring system
- HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONNECTIONS: What goes between the Service Center and the Connection Outlets.
HOME NETWORK CENTER
This is where services from outside the home (cable TV, telephone, digital satellite, Internet, etc.) enter the home, are physically integrated, and from which are distributed to locations throughout the home - similar to the electrical breaker panel.
The service center is also the location for mounting electronic equipment and other system modules used to provide more advanced applications and home solutions.
CONNECTION OUTLETS
The outlets built in to each room connect services to your phones, TVs, and other electronic devices. Proper outlets are required for maximum performance and flexibility.
- Phone Outlet – 1-port phone plate
- Phone/Data Outlet – 2-port plate with connections for phone and data
- TV Outlet – 1-port plate with f-type connector for TV
- Media Outlet – 2-port plate with one f-type connector for TV and one phone/data jack
- Universal Outlet – 4-port plate with one phone jack, one data jack, one f-type connector for TV, and one additional f-type connector for internal video or camera source
- Enhanced Universal Outlet – 6-port plate custom configured with f-type connectors, separate line phone jacks, dedicated fax jack, and/or data jack
HIGH PERFORMANCE CONNECTIONS
Just because advanced services can reach the house doesn't mean that you can access them. Services such as digital satellite TV, high-speed internet access, and whole-house music require high performance cables.
Covan’s Structured Wiring solution connects your home through RG-6 quad-shield coaxial cable for TV and video applications and CAT5E wiring (the same wiring used in computer networks) for phone, data, and other applications. Quad-shielded means you have maximum protection from interference with your TV picture. CAT5E wire can provide up to four dedicated phone lines without crosstalk and supports very high speed networking. These cables deliver all the performance you need today, while providing the capacity to handle tomorrow's technology.
Covan’s Structured Wiring Systems allow for additional wiring and modules for the installation of integrated voice intercoms, whole house audio, DSS satellite distribution, security cameras, and home networking.
It is easiest to wire your home for a Structured Wiring System during construction. However, our skilled installers can retrofit most homes with a Structured Wiring solution. Let us know how Covan can help wire your home for the 21st century.
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