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Separating Voice and Data Patch Panels

Written by Julianus Yu

Some installations of voice and data cabling will terminate the cabling on the same patch panel. Although this is not entirely frowned upon by cabling professionals, many will tell you that it is more desirable to have a separate patch panel dedicated to voice applications. This is essential if you use a different category of cable for voice than for data (such as if you use Category 6 cable for data but Category 5e cable for voice). This makes the cabling installation much easier to document and to understand.

Talking further for installation system, Any installation that requires more than one telecommunications closet and also one equipment room will require the service of a data backbone. Due to distance limitations on horizontal cable when it is handling data applications, all horizontal cable is terminated to network equipment (hubs) in the telecommunications closet.

In many ways, voice installations are quite similar to data installations. The differences are the type of equipment that each end of the link is plugged into and, sometimes, the type of patch cables used. And the telecommunications closet is connected to the equipment room via twisted-pair backbone cabling.