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Digital Wiring....Is your home ready for the Digital Age?
Many people who have taken the step to build their own home use to worry about how to locate and wire the phones throughout their new home. Today, not only do you have to think about phones, there is intercom, television, stereo, other video sources, plus home automation. While great care must be taken in planning and actually wiring for these devices, we at ABF have taken that worry and planning away from you so all you have to do is move in and start enjoying your new home. We "home run" every wire to a central point, usually in a control center in the basement. We NEVER use daisy-chain (point-to-point runs). Home run wiring allows for the installation of any kind of phone system or intercom system on your backbone wiring. The flexibility that home run topology delivers justifies the difference in cost, if any at all, with respect to daisy-chaining.
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The standard for new residential phone systems is Category 5 commonly referred to as "CAT 5" cable. Category 5 wire is four twisted pairs of high quality copper wire enclosed in an outer jacket. It is used for phone, fax, modem and high-speed digital computer transmissions. "CAT 5" supports four phone lines with one cable and has a high immunity to interference. This will handle new wide bandwidth services such as DSL and ISDN. Before the mid-1980s when telephone wiring was installed by the telephone company, what is called POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) wiring was used. It was usually quad wire that often picked up interference or cross talk. New EIA/TIA 568A compliant wiring, when properly installed, eliminates those and many other problems. The new wire will handle much higher frequencies that are often needed for computer network applications.
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Quality video distribution has become more difficult as we enter the 21st century. In days past, our parents may have had an ugly T.V. antenna installed on the roof with a flat cable bringing in the signal to one, maybe two televisions. The reception was OK for that time but that will never work in today's video environment. With the advent of "Satellite" television, in particular the DSS satellite services, and digital cable television, it is critical that the incoming signal be transported throughout the house with a very minimal amount of "signal loss". Now with HDTV coming onto the scene, it is even more critical that you capture and transport that video signal cleanly. To add fuel to this argument, the newer televisions on the market including the home theater and HDTV televisions, require that a crisp and clean signal be transported otherwise a poor quality picture will result. ABF uses only one kind of cable to transport this delicate video signal. RG-6 Quad Shield coax is installed in all ABF homes. Though many of our competitors will install a lower quality RG-6 in an effort to save money, we feel that the use of this more expensive "quad-shield" cable is important, not only to prevent any signal loss, but to give our customers the best picture quality possible. RG6 quad shield is coaxial cable with an insulated center wire and four layers of shielding. It is used for all cable TV, digital satellite, cable modem and high-speed interactive video services. RG6 quad shield supports digital data and hundreds of channels. It also has a high immunity to interference over standard RG-6.
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