What is Structured Wiring in a home?

Structured wiring is a standards-based system of cabling that distributes communication services including voice, data, and video from a central location over a network of built-in cables throughout a home.

Benefits of Structured Wiring

• Enhance your connected lifestyle
• Secure your connections
• Easily integrate new technologies
• Allow for future changes

To get a better feel on where your structured wiring home network begins let's look at a home network enclosure.

These enclosures provide a fast, flexible and clean distribution management solution for voice, data, video, and audio connections. The one shown below from our YOUTUBE channel is 14 inches high and other sizes are available. They can be flush mounted but they are designed to fit between 16-inch studs. Included are cable knock-outs for your horizontal and vertical cabling.

Want to access the internet from your bedroom?

• Access the internet from any bedroom in your home
• Share files, music and movies
• Allow for future technology integration

To get a proper signal to multiple bedrooms you need to run a cable to each room that will support your steaming needs. A cat5e or cat6 rated cable will support that. All these cables then get punched down to a structured wiring patch panel. Then you make a simple connection with a patch cable and plug it into your switch for networking multiple locations.



Want to watch Television while in the garage?

• Extend video to every corner of your home
• Experience functionality from a true video network
• Allow your entertainment to fit your lifestyle

This might get a little tricky. After you determine what service your going to install cable or satellite there are different modules for both. In the video below a Direct TV approved splitter is used and you'll notice that you need 2 inputs for satellite compared to only 1 for cable TV.



Use the Xbox or Playstation from the living room as the hub for a broadband entertainment center. Add to your music collection from the comfort of your couch. It is all possible with Home Structured Wiring. Structured wiring systems simplify and enhance your lifestyle and create long-term value for your home.

Today's entertainment and lifestyle products are developing at a tremendous pace. These systems often include computers, phones, gaming devices, audio players, appliances, set-top boxes and much more. In addition, communications and entertainment services continue to evolve and provide more choices.
A structured cabling system provides an effective way to integrate and utilize changing products and services to enhance your lifestyle today and in the future.

I get the feeling you're ready to dive more into your home wiring. Check out Bob Catanzarite web page at http://www.swhowto.com for an overview on installing your own Home Structured Wiring Network.

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When would I need an Amber colored lens?

We recently got our stock shipment for Greenlee Safety Glasses and I noticed a few different types of colors for the lens. Let us take a look at the Yellow contrast Amber lens.

This color lens absorbs Blue and Ultraviolet light and is best used when sharpness, acuity and contrast are needed and to block high intensity blue lighting such as UV and in Curing Operations.

- Filters out hazy light that is hard on the eyes
- Good for working outside at Dawn and Dusk
- Excellent for hazy, overcast or foggy days
- High Intensity tint for maximum sight performance during low light driving

Recent studies have shown that too much light and especially Blue light, suppresses our natural sleep hormone melatonin. Wearing Yellow glasses for an hour before bedtime will block enough of this light to prevent your melatonin from being suppressed letting you sleep quickly and easily. Other studies have mentioned that the display on a computer, TV, phone, monitor, pad and video games have an excessive amount of blue light so wearing this color lens will also help those who find it hard to unplug.

If you have a favorite preference on when to wear this color lens don't hesitate to leave us a comment. Thanks!

When to wear a class 2 High Visibility Vest

So you've been browsing around the internet trying to figure out why and when you need to wear a class 2 vest. Let's talk about it.

Class 2 garments are intended for use in activities where greater visibility is necessary during inclement weather conditions or in work environments with risks that exceed those for Class 1. Garments in this class also cover workers who perform tasks that divert their attention from approaching traffic, or that put them in close proximity to passing vehicles traveling at 25 miles per hour or higher.

Here are some examples of workers who use Class 2 apparel include:

• Forestry operations
• Ship cargo loading operations
• Roadway construction, utility and railway workers
• Survey crews
• School crossing guards
• Delivery vehicle drivers
• High-volume parking and/or toll gate personnel
• Airport baggage handlers/ground crew
• Emergency response and law enforcement personnel
• Trash collection and recycling operations
• Accident site investigators
• Railroad inspection and maintenance crews

Let's also review federal regulation number 23CFR634 Worker Visibility.

634.3 Rule - All workers within the right-of-way of a Federal-aid highway who are exposed either to traffic (vehicles using the highway for purposes of travel) or to construction equipment within the work area shall wear high-visibility safety apparel

634.1 Purpose - The purpose of the regulations in this part is to decrease the likelihood of worker fatalities or injuries caused by motor vehicles and construction vehicles and equipment while working within the right-of-way on Federal-aid highways

So now that you have a better feel for why and when you need to wear your vest keep it on when you're suppose to, it could save your life.

Checking out the AFL CT-30 Fiber Optic Cleaver

One of our most popular fiber optic kits is the AFL Fast kit that allows you to terminate connectors in the field quickly and accurately. The most costly part of a fiber kit seems to be the cleaver so we cracked it open to get a better look.


The CT-30 is equally at home in a splicing van or in a bucket truck and is ideal for FTTx applications. Don't forget the 16-position blade yields 48,000 single-fiber cleaves, or 4,000 12-fiber ribbon cleaves before requiring replacement, and the built-in scrap collector conveniently stores fiber shards until they can be safely discarded.

The CT-30 Cleaver is packaged with three scrap collection options that allow the user to tailor it to their cleaving preferences. The CT30 is delivered with the SC-01 Side Cover installed for users that prefer not to use an automated scrap collection system. For those that prefer an automated scrap collection system, the FC-02 Fiber Collector and two scrap box options are included. The FDB-02 Scrap Box is a smaller bin for users seeking a compact profile. The FDB-03 Scrap Box is a larger bin with sweeping brush and static resistant surfaces for those users seeking to maximize scrap capacity. All scrap options are easily configured by the user.

Its also kinda sweet that the blade is replaceable and it's fairly inexpensive. I also like how it's compatible with the AFL Fujikura fusion splicer.

Considering this cleaver is also commonly used in industries such as Aerospace and Defense, Alternative Energy, Broadcast, Electric Utility, Fiber Optic Component and Equipment Manufacturing, Industrial Environments, Installers and Contractors, Medical, Mining, Oil and Gas, Security, Transportation and more helps to make this cleaver one of the most popular and reliable tools on the market.

For further questions you may contact:
Mercy Salinas at 888-797-3697 ex 232

Blast from the Past - April 4th 1928

Motion pictures transmitted over telephone wires became a reality today. Ten feet of motion picture film showing a close-up of Miss Vilma Banky, famous screen star, smiling, talking with clearly marked movements of the lips were flashed 1000 miles from Chicago to New York by the telephotograph process and five hours later an accurate duplicate of the film was available for showing to a New York audience at the Embassy Theatre.

Continuous experimentation with telephone motion picture films over a period of years by the engineers of American Telephone and Telegraph Company, together with the co-operation, during the last three months, of technical experts of the United Artists Corporation, the film company which transmitted today's experimental motion picture has made possible today's success.

Miss Banky was caught by a motion picture camera at 10:30 o'clock this morning in Chicago en route to Los Angeles. By noon the film was being telephotographed to New York where it was developed and turned over to the film company within two hours time - a speed five times faster than Colonel Lindberg could have transmitted the film eastward and ten times more rapidly than it could have come on the Twentieth Century Limited. The chief use of telephotograph motion pictures is expected to be in connection with motion picture news release. The cost of transmission is reiatively low when compared with other means such as special trains and airplanes, used when speed is considered essential. Telephone Company officals estimate thirty feet of film of an important news event could be transmitted by telephotograph so as to be available to all parts of the United States for about $1000.

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