What is Voice and Data Cabling?  (Voice and Data Communication ) 2020
Channel: NM Cabling Solutions
Date: 2020-12-02

Voice and data cabling is a system of cabling can carry voice and/or data. Data and Voice Cabling are one of the most important components of any business because of its potential to connect an office to the outside world. Voice and data information is transported mostly along Copper Cables.

The advantage of installing a pre designed structured cabling system is that all the outlets can be used for a multiple of purposes. Thus for the current layout and for future layouts and many different types of technology. By installing a structured cabling system you only need to upgrade your technology. Consequently you could still use the existing data cabling

The cabling itself is more complicated to put in than just drilling holes and cutting cables to attach computers to printers. To begin with professionally installed data cabling involves networking your PC, telephone, printer and fax machine to each other. Wi-Fi may be a staple of our day-to-day lives, but structured cabling is overall much faster and reliable. Furthermore it is necessary regardless if you want to connect your office to the outside world

Upgrading From Analogue Systems
Legacy analogue systems are still in place in many offices. However companies are finally starting to upgrade in order to better network together phones and computers over digital systems. Voice cabling for VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone systems are becoming the gold standard for offices. As a result they allow for more portability. Thus as a result, structured cabling is rapidly being adopted.

There are numerous benefits to VOIP systems, some of which are shown below:
• It is easier to install and maintain
• VOIP systems are much more scalable
• There are many more call features
• Employees can receive and make calls wherever they go
What are the different types of voice data cabling?
For the most part in analogue legacy telephone systems the cabling would be a phone carrier cable such as a CW1308 cable. Generally this cable would have from 2 to 200 plus cores but wouldn’t be twisted like a modern data cable.
Nonetheless it would be suitable for analogue voice but not suitable for data voice systems such as VOIP
Indeed structured cabling outlets would be required for VOIP.  Moreover as most current phone systems don’t exceed 1 gigabit speeds a Cat5e cable is acceptable for data transmission.
However Cat6 and Cat6a are recommended in new buildings for structured cabling installations. Furthermore Cat6a is recommended as a minimum to future proof for 10 Gigabit transmission infrastructure

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