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Structured Wiring Installed

Bob meets Tim Woods from the Internet Home Alliance at the Home Director network connection center in the basement. It's where all the structured wiring comes in and where the main controls happen: 2 +2 (cat-5 and RJ), cable broadband, security link-up, telephone, etc. Because the homeowners are a dual career couple they need to be connected to each other (home office to the studio) and to the outside world in a broadband environment. In the kitchen Larry Hicks of Home Director is installing some cable for a universal 2 + 2 outlet for TV, telephone or data near the breakfast nook providing flexibility for use of a phone, screen, etc. Looking at the Alliance's wiring plan, Tim points out the security camera at the front door and the ADT iCenter security system. The study/screening room will be a real media center with speakers for dolby stereo running through the ceiling, cable broadband, and a Panasonic high definition TV. There willl be speakers throughout the house allowing different music to play in diffferent rooms all controlled from the audio center in the kitchen. The Cisco Aironet system is a wireless network for the home allowing the homeowner to put a wireless card into his laptop and wirelessly port the web anywhere in the house. Because this is an old house in which they are trying to preserve the original plaster and lath walls, the installation of the structured wiring has required different tools and is a much slower process than in new construction, but it can be done.
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Structured Wiring Installed

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" Tim woods from the Internet home alliance is here with us today hi Bob and now we're doing. A huge job here for this house right in terms of Internet connectivity yes we are all the features in the house you are surrounded by wires in every direction of course trying to get things wrapped up before we insulate. Armed this is all regular. Insulated cable right but. This is not know on the -- looking --"

" Well this is our network connection center from home director and this is where all of our structured wiring comes in and where the main control happens right we've got our two plus two which is our cat five and our our -- That is these titles confuse people I mean right now let's to -- which is our. What does that mean well people remember like cable you know the cable coming into your home for like cable TV and correct and you've got ethernet. OK that is basically souped up telephone line. High speed high speed and that allows you to network all the home whether you're using the cable or the ethernet. And we bring it all into this box we also bring in our connection to the outside world which is going to be your cable broadband application. We're going to have our security link up in here our telephony is gonna come in here phone lines -- him and yours well. And we've got just a ton of wires in here like you said because we're trying to do a couple of different things in this home that had never been done in some other homes."

" This is a distribution center right and we've got essentially. A dual career couple living right they won't necessarily be working out of here all the time but they do want to be able to address their career interests and needs from the home."

" Exactly and that presented a great challenge for the IHA because what we did is we wanted to not only. Connect them with each other in the home between like the say the home office and the studio but we also want to connect -- to the outside world and broadband environment so the challenges between the two running video and all those other things were great gotcha let's take a look -- in the kitchen to see how things are going to be running up there --"

" Well here in the kitchen area we have Larry hicks from home director. Who's helping to run some of the cable hey -- Bob now what is this going to be doing in the middle of the kitchen this is don't provide a universal two plus two outlet for. TV telephone or data or data and it's being aimed at the portion of the kitchen plan where we're gonna have. Kind of the eat in area right children have benches here and so that they want to have any kind of equipment here whether its owner's green -- whatever. Grow that program flexibility we've got a plan here so maybe we should take a look at this is to understand better what it is you're doing."

" Throughout the house who want to walk us through from the front door sure we'll here at the front door we've got a security camera and now we've got our AD TI center that's our security systems. You walk into the home -- we basically got our study screening room the living room family room the kitchen. Where we are right now well go back to the study screening room that are going in which is of real media center what's happening in there well it's amazing -- we've got a lot of cable running because we've got speakers all through the ceiling we're going to be running like dolby stereo -- so this is already been pre wired exactly exactly our broadband is going to be coming in here we're gonna have high definition TV in there as well. And then you'll see throughout here we've got speakers through the whole house because we've got an audio summer actually controlled in the kitchen and that allows us to distribute audio throughout the whole different rooms of the home. Based on preference so you can actually have different types of audio playing so wherever you see one of these -- generally it's a speaker and sit in the ceiling right exactly. And then over here this blue blue box right there is actually our Cisco -- that's our wireless OK notices the breezeway that connects the barn to the house right also an entryway right and what does this do that that is actually our on air and -- system that's our wireless network for the home. So we can actually put a wireless cards into our laptop and it allows us to port the web anywhere in the house right."

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