A long time ago, the only wires a house needed were phone and electrical lines. Nowadays, more and more houses depend on another type of wiring—a home network that connects the proliferating electronic devices we use for entertainment, communication, and security. Before long, it's possible that every electrical item in a home will be controlled from one central spot, which in turn can be accessed remotely via phone, PDA, or computer.

A structured cabling system needs to be planned in advance to make sure it covers all your needs for both now and the future. All too often it is left until the last minute, leaving little time to plan. You need to make sure that you have allocated a place in the house to house the rack that will store all the equipment. All too often we seee all the cables brought back to a location where there is no room to house the equipment that is needed. (amplifier, lighting dimmer packs, dvd players, sky boxes, home cinema receivers, controllers, audio and video servers etc). we can advise on what rack wil best suit your needs based on the space available.

To make sure your house is ready for the arrival of that brave new world, it needs two separate wiring systems: one with "structured wire" to handle the phones, computers, TVs, and audio components and the other that carrys mains 230V such as your lighting circuits for lighting control. For structured wiring, most electricians are up to the task—if they're careful. If you strip the wire improperly, or even tug it a little bit too hard, you can totally degrade the signal. We have testing equipment to verify that the finished job transmits data at the rate it's supposed to.

Wired or Wireless?
If you have the option then wired is still the better way to go. It's not because of problems like electrical interference and dead zones: Those are largely things of the past for professional installations. The fact is even the best wireless systems simply don't have the bandwidth of a "hard" wire: They max out at 54 megabits per second (Cat5, Cat6 and RG6 cables reach 100 mbps and more). Our thinking is that wireless should compliment wired not replace it. So for example if you may have a wireless touch panel to control your music system, we would make sure that the signal was able to 'talk' back by a mixture of wired and wireless technologies. Basically the wireless touchpanel would talk back to a RX in the room which in turn would be wired back to the main system where the music server resides.

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