On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 10:31:23AM +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote: > We're quoting a building that has Cat5E phone cabling and no data cabling. > Does anyone have experience with splitting the Cat5E to carry both voice and > data?
Yep. Assuming you're using wall panels or skirting board boxes, you can strip the sheath off further back and route different pairs to two different sockets. It looks a little rickety, but I've never had a problem with lack of strength in the connections. At the patch panel you just do the same thing -- put different pairs into different ports. It does have the distinct disadvantage of not allowing points to be used for an alternate purpose in the future, however -- unless you wire up every point as 1-2, 3-6 (which I heartily do not recommend for several really good reasons). You're also in deep trouble if you need to terminate directly at the closet end (ie straight into RJ-45 and not into a patch panel), but if the client is that cheap you probably don't want the job anyway. BTW, whereabouts down south are you located? - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
