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- [Instructor] In this sub lesson

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we're going to wire up a patch panel

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to an RJ45 jack,

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and this patch panel is
a type of patch panel

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you might see in a server
room or a wiring closet

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or data center,

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and you have your RJ45 connectors,

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and on the back, you
have all your punch downs

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for your individual wires.

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And the jack, that's the type of thing

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that you'll see at a workstation,

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wherever a computer is,

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and it might be flush mounted to the wall,

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or it might be within a
cubicle system or whatever,

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but you punch down to these wires here,

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and that's what makes the
connection between them,

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and then a patch cable goes
from this to the computer,

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and on the other end,

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you have lots of patch cables
that usually go to switches,

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like the Cisco switch that we're using

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and in fact, that's what we'll do.

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Now, you wanna have some tools handy

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to do this connection,

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and I call it a long distance connection,

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the permanent physical plant,

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because these types of connections

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are the things that are permanent,

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you run the cable, you
make the connections,

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and you leave them,

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and computers can use them every day.

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Now of course you'll need some cable,

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now I've got Cat6 cable
here and everything is Cat6,

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we've got the Cat6
patch panel, Cat6 cable,

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Cat6 RJ45 jacks,

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but then you need some tools,

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you should have a good cutter,

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to cut the cable,

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then you want a wire stripper,

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which can take care of
stripping the plastic jacket

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off of the cable and exposing the wires,

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and then you want a punch down tool,

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and this is what you use to
punch down the individual wires

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to all these connections on the
jack and on the patch panel,

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and these jacks came with a
nice little mounting tool,

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and so you can place this right in here

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and that's what we'll do.

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I used to use just a two by four

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with some big staples connected,

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so I could mount this and keep it secure,

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'cause you needs something
solid to punch down onto,

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'cause it creates a lot of pressure.

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So that's a nice item to
have if I buy these in bulk,

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and you know, if you buy
25 of these or whatever,

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you'll get one of these.

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And you also need a testing
tool to test the connection,

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like I said, testings, very important,

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and so here I have a basic land tester,

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you got the tester
itself and then a remote,

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and so you'd connect one
end to the patch panel

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and the other end to the
jack once you're done,

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and you do that with patch cables,

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so we'll show all that.

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Okay, so we'll start
with the length of cable

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and just cut it,

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one good cut,

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to take that guy off,

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and then we'll start working
with the individual wires,

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we place the cable into our wire stripper,

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and I put it in there about an
inch, inch and a half or so,

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turn it around,

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and pull that PVC jacket off,

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get rid of the excess,

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that exposes the wires,

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and you have eight wires,

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this is known as UTP,
unshielded twisted pair cable,

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and it has four pairs,

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you've got the blue pair, the orange pair,

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the green pair and the brown pair,

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collectively known as BOGB.

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And these pairs each has a
solid color and a white color,

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so for example,

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we've got the white blue

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and then the solid blue,

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then we have in here, the
white orange, solid orange,

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white green, solid green,
white brown, solid brown,

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and you adjust these in order

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and connect them to your
patch panel or your jack

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according to what standard you're using,

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and usually that's gonna
be the 568B standard,

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which specifies this order,

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white orange, orange,

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white green, blue,

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white blue, green,

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and white brown, brown.

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And so what we're gonna do,

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is we're gonna undo all the wires

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so that they're all loose,

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and you've got your extra thread,

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and so on,

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that you can use for cabling purposes

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if you're doing long distance runs,

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but we're gonna actually
just cut these for now

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and just show the
individual wires connected

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to both the patch panel and jack.

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So we'll start with the patch panel,

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and on the back here, you
see numbers in the center,

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those are the port numbers
that you want to wire up,

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so there's a collection of
eight punch downs for each port,

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and they show the wiring scheme

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depending on whether you're using A or B,

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again, we're gonna use 568B,

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A is the older standard,

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though you may see it
for a variety of reasons,

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so we're gonna use B,

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so we need to punch down these guys

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according to these colors,

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and these guys, according to these colors,

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so it's gonna be white orange, orange,

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white brown, brown down here,

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and up here, white blue, blue,

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and white green, green.

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And you could see that
they're numbered as well,

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when you're dealing with
568 B as I mentioned,

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it's white orange, orange,
that's one and two,

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then white green, blue,

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white blue, green,

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white brown and brown.

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But really just, you wanna
make sure you match the colors,

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that's the most important thing,

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and we test this with our
continuity tester at the end

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and it tests every pin.

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Now with this cabling
what you wanna do is,

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as I mentioned, we wanna
get rid of this excess,

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if we're punching down here,

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we're cut that out of there,

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and you wanna try to get the
wires as close in as possible,

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and get that PVC jacket
as close as you can,

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and the reason for this is,

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'cause you wanna keep the
twists going as far as you can

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along the length of the cable

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before they get to the termination point,

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and so we wanna try and make
it as close as possible.

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So we start fitting these in now,

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and we'll actually place these
guys directly into the slots,

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like so,

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and you could do it by hand,

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I also have a couple tools for this,

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and you wanna make sure

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that you're doing it
to the correct colors,

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make sure that those colors match.

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Once we have those wires in there,

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placed in by hand or with a tool,

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then you're gonna use
your punch down tool,

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and you can see it has a cut side

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and it says cut on it,

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that's gonna go to the outside

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so that it cuts off the excess
when we do the punch down,

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so we place the tool in there,

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and we punch down directly on that guy,

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and we do that for each one,

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and if you get a little extra

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you could do a double
punch or a triple punch,

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and over time it should get
rid of the excess for you,

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and you wanna make sure they're fully down

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into each of these slots.

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So once again, you're punching down here,

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and you wanna make sure
it goes all the way in

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and gets that individual wire
all the way punched down,

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so it meets the contact inside that slot,

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you want copper on copper,

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that's the goal here,

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and always remember to have
that cut side on the outside,

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so it cuts off the excess.

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Do a couple more punches,

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remove the excess,

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and then you wanna take
a look at your work,

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you wanna see here,

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and make sure all these pins

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are all the way down to the bottom,

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you don't want them loose at the top here,

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they have to be all the way
down to make that connectivity,

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very important,

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and same thing on the other side,

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they have to be all the way down.

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So that's how you do punch downs on this,

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you just got to make sure that
it's meeting the requirement,

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that the specification is met,

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if you're using 568B on both ends,

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make sure you're meeting those colors,

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and make sure it's,

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you know, exactly what it shows on there,

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white orange, orange, white brown, brown

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white blue, blue, white green, green,

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that's what we have here,

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and so that's the connection
for this patch panel.

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And on the other end,
we'll connect to the jack,

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and once again, we'll strip
the PVC jacket off here,

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and you don't wanna do too many cuts,

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because you don't wanna cut
into the wires themselves,

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so you gotta be careful with that,

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you might lose connectivity if you do so,

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so pull that guy off,

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and we'll do the same thing
we did on the other end,

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spreading out all the wires.

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And now if we zoom in on the jack,

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you'll see that we have
these same types of slots,

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and then once again, we have A and B,

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we're gonna be using 568 B,

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so we know exactly which colors go where,

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we have orange, white orange,

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green, and white green.

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And if we turn it over,

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you have the rest here,

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it's gonna be white blue,
blue, white brown, brown,

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so you have to make sure that you're

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setting up your wires
in the correct order,

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and we'll do that now,

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and then we'll punch it down

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in the same manner as the patch panel.

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And we place the wires
in one by one once again.

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And as I mentioned, you
can use a little tool,

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something like this,

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there's several out there,

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sometimes cabling or jacks
come with a little tool

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to help kind of push them in temporarily,

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until you're ready to do the full punch.

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You gotta be careful with these,

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you don't wanna damage the wires.

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Okay, so all these wires
are now placed in there

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in the correct order,

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let's actually check that,

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and we got white orange, orange,

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and white green, green,

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and on this side, white blue, blue,

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and white brown, brown,

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and we're good, okay?

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Sometimes the brown may look
a little purple in video

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and in dim lighting,

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so you have to watch for that,

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use a flashlight if necessary,

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an LED flashlight really
helps to show the colors

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if you're in a dark area.

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So now we're gonna punch
these down the same way,

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like I say, we wanna
keep that cut side out,

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so it cuts off the excess,

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and we'll punch that straight
down for each of the slots,

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and we could place this guy right in here

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and this little mounting tools,

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the nice little feature,

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and start punching.

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Do as many punch downs as
necessary to get the wire to cut,

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but again, you wanna make sure

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that those wires are all
the way down in the slots.

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And quite often, I'll try to make the PVC

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get a little tighter here,

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this isn't the greatest job,

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but I usually try to get
the PVC a little tighter,

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sometimes even inside here,

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the less space there is for open wires,

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the less chance of a
loss of data transfer,

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you want the highest speed
you can get with Cat6,

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and so you wanna keep that PVC
jacket as close as possible

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to here, to the connection point,

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so that the twists go all the
way to that connection point

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or as close as possible.

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So again, I'll quite often
make this a bit tighter,

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I'm gonna do some more punches
and get rid of the excess.

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Now you always gotta check,

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and make sure that the
wires are all the way down,

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you can see here,

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couple are not quite down all the way,

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like that solid brown,

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so we'll punch that again,

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and make sure they're
all the way in there.

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And that's that, so that guy is set up,

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like I say, I usually will
make this a little bit tighter,

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this is for demonstration purposes,

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it should work fine anyways,

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but, a little tough to do this

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while recording video as well,

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but that's basically how you do it.

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And then these usually
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so you can cap those wires,

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and we'll take this out of the mount,

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and this whole jack would
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and some type of plate,

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either, a flush mount plate
or something like that,

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I usually use blue for data,

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and if I'm also setting
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I'll use white for those,

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that's kind of an unwritten
rule in the Northeast

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in the United States,

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but that's what I do,

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and so that guy is finished.

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And now we can move on
to the testing stage,

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so you need a tester and
a terminator with it,

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and a couple of patch cables,

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and so we'll connect our jack

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to one of the terminators,

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and I'll use this guy here,

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connect to port one on the patch panel,

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and connect to the tester,

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and it automatically
tests when you turn it on,

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and it says pass,

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and you might be able to hear a beep

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and it says pass here,

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and it shows all eight pins,

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one through eight are in order,

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if any were punched
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for example, quite often you'll see

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white blue and blue are switched,

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then the numbers on the
bottom would be different,

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and you might see four
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that's common,

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and it shows here ID number one,

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that is our first terminator,

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'cause I have eight
terminators with this kit.

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And so it test good,

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it automatically tests for
continuity for every pin.

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Now actually, when I'm
doing a lot of cable runs,

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if I'm doing a bunch
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what I'll do is I'll connect
all of these terminators

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to the patch panel,

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say I have eight terminators,

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I'll connect to ports one through eight,

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and I'll have one guy in the
server room or the data center,

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and we'll have walkie talkies

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and communicate with each other,

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and I would roam around with
this tester around the office

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going to each of the
different workstations

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that these are supposed to connect to

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over long distance runs,

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and then just plug in
with the patch cable,

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and if it sees the ID,

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then I'd radio to the
guy at the server room

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or at wherever the wiring closet,

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and say, hey, ID one just tested good,

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let's move on to the
next one, mark that down,

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and we'd have a whole list and say,

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you know, check, mark each port,

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to let us know that each one was tested,

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and you know, you need to do this

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whenever you're doing cable runs.

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Now, this tester can also send out a tone,

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you might have heard of
the tone and probe kit

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or a fox and hound.

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Well, this can generate
tone if we change the mode,

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there we go, to tone
and select to execute,

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that's now sending tone out on this wire,

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and it's a good thing to have

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if you don't know where cables go,

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and in fact, quite often I'll
use this at the jack side,

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where the workstation is.

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It's a good thing to have

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because if you have a lot of
cables and one has failed,

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and it might be very hard to find them

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if there's a big bundle of cables,

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so you can plug this in to
send tone across the cable,

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and it just uses one pair, two wires,

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generally white blue, blue,

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that's four and five, if you're in 568 B,

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and you can change the tones
here that you wanna use

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and the pairs that you send them,

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but by default, it's
usually white blue, blue.

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And then we'd use our
inductive amplifier known as,

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this would be the hound

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or this would be the probe of the kit,

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and press the button to trace,

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and you could probably hear that,

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it's finding the wire,

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place it somewhere else it doesn't see it,

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so it's a good way of
finding individual wires,

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but it just sends tone,

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it doesn't tell you that the cable works,

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it only tells you that
it's able to send tone

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on one pair of wires,

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you want to make sure
that you set this guy

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to your regular testing
to test all the wires,

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and make sure there is
connectivity on each,

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and it's all in order,

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you gotta get that pass.

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Testing is very important with cabling,

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you wanna make sure that
every port works properly,

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and ours does on the first shot.

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So, that's it for this sub lesson,

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that's long distance cabling,

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the physical plant,

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connecting from the
patch panel to the jack.

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And again, we're just simulating this

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with the six foot cable,

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but this could be over as
much as 100 meters maximum

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when you're using unshielded twisted pair,

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and so, you know, it could
be a very long distance run,

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could go through walls, over the ceilings,

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could be whatever the customer needs.

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And so, that's basically
how you do it though,

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either way, no matter
how long the distance is

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or how difficult it is
to get the cable through,

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that's basically what you do.

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So that's it for this sub lesson.