The wiring infrastructure in most homes has not changed in 50 years and is unable to fully support the technologies that are available to consumers today. This advanced infrastructure called structured wiring is necessary to ensure that your family can be connected to today's services and prepared for new technologies. Structured wiring vs. conventional wiring Think of wiring as a pipeline for information.
Conventional wiring has the data capacity of a squirt gun.
By comparison, structured wiring, using Category 5 cables, has the capacity of a fire hose. Structured wiring can transmit more information, faster. Conventional wiring, which is found in most homes, consists of one or two twisted pairs of wires, and is adequate for basic voice, fax or data communications. Structured wiring is more advanced wiring. Not only can it handle traditional telephone, fax and data communications, but also sophisticated video and data signals from computers.