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Structured cabling
From the course: CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) Cert Prep
Structured cabling
If you think about network cabling, if you wanted to, you could take a switch like this, put it in the middle of a room, plug it in, and then you could have everybody make their own cables, plug it into the switch, and then go ahead and plug it into their individual systems. Well, that would be a really bad idea because you're leaving cables all over the floor. So it's a hazard not only to people, but to your data. What we want is we want our cables in the walls. We want them in the walls in an organized way that the cables are safe and then we can connect when we need to. This is known as structured cabling. Now structured cabling begins, usually in a closet or some kind of room that we will often call the main distribution frame or intermediate distribution frame. It's the closet where the equipment is. And we're going to see something like this. This is a 19 inch equipment rack, and it's extremely standard. In fact, not only…
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