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Whole-house Wiring

Tim Woods from Internet Home Alliance shows how structured wiring is run from a second floor outlet to a Home Director Network Control Center. Woods also details the functions of the Network Control Center and explains how it distributes audio, video, voice, and data throughout a home.
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Whole-house Wiring

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" Hi, this is Tim Woods with the Internet Home Alliance. We're here in [unk], Vermont in the new construction project. New construction is a lot easier than existing homes, running wiring, but we're gonna be running a home run today with our 2 plus 2 line. This is our Ethernet and cable. We have already drilled the pilot holes. We've got our box on the wall for electrical and cable, and we're gonna be making a home run down to the basement. Down on the 1st floor, a ringer starts with wiring between the 4 joists, and we're bringing it down. You'll notice that we've got our electrical wire on this side. We wanna keep 4 inches between these 2 wires, so what we're gonna do later is we're gonna tack this cable to the board. What I'm gonna do now though to complete this is bring it down, all the way down to the basement, so we can complete our home run. We've come down from the 2nd floor to the 1st floor, and now, we're in the basement. We're gonna complete our home runs. What we're doing now is we're weaving our cable, our 2 plus 2, through with our security and our feature wire. It's pretty good to kind of leave these connections loose, so later on, you can come along and tighten these things up. And now we're gonna take it down into our network connection set of box from home director, and there, we have completed our home run. Now we've come back and we're basically gonna be securing our line to the wall. This is our 2 plus 2, and as we said before, we wanna keep a safe distance from the electrical, at least 4 inches. We have completed 1 here. What we're gonna do is we're gonna find the flat part of the cable, we're gonna take our standard electrical cable staple, we're gonna put that over the top, and we're gonna tap that into place. Now you wanna be careful because you don't want to press the line. You just wanna touch it over the top. We're at the network connection center home director's network connection center in the basement. This is basically the brains of the house where everything converges and everything is tied together. You'll see our 2 plus 2 cables coming in here. We've got our east study room, our great room, west bedroom. This is carrying all our audio, our visual. We've got our Ethernet. Our cable connections are all here. This is all coming down. These black wires right here are coming from our direct key speed, direct TV connection from huge network systems. We've got our security and cabling coming in from ADT. All of these is gonna converge in this spot so this is really where everything is commanded and controlled in the home. We've run a structured wiring to the rest of the house. We've even brought a home run down into the network connection center. The last thing to do is to finish off all of these units. What we had here is the black wires are coming in from the different TVs in the home. You've got the labeled front room, kitchen, master bedroom. Over here, we have our distribution coming into the box from our different video sources like our DVD player, and then being distributed to the rest of the home. As well, we have these cables coming in from our video cameras at the front porch and at the back porch. Right here, this is where our satellite connections will be coming in from our disk. In this box, our telecon unit, we have our phone line coming in from the phone company, and being distributed to those same rooms; kitchen, master bedroom, bathroom. Down here, we have the worldwide web coming in to our gateway and then being distributed to all the other computers in the house. The last thing to do is to hook up the power. Once we've done that, we're good to go."

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