1 1 00:00:00,290 --> 00:00:02,230 Let's talk about wiring a network. 2 2 00:00:02,230 --> 00:00:04,160 So we talked about cable distribution, 3 3 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:06,100 and I mentioned things like patch panels, 4 4 00:00:06,100 --> 00:00:07,470 and how you're going to connect your switches 5 5 00:00:07,470 --> 00:00:09,570 and your routers through the patch panels, 6 6 00:00:09,570 --> 00:00:11,980 and that's going to connect back into your offices 7 7 00:00:11,980 --> 00:00:13,800 into that network wall jack. 8 8 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:15,340 In this lesson, I'm going to show you 9 9 00:00:15,340 --> 00:00:16,890 how we wire up those devices 10 10 00:00:16,890 --> 00:00:18,336 and give you a hands-on look at them. 11 11 00:00:18,336 --> 00:00:19,690 Now, you look at a patch panel, 12 12 00:00:19,690 --> 00:00:21,160 there are many different kinds of them. 13 13 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,890 You'll notice that it has six different patch panel jacks, 14 14 00:00:23,890 --> 00:00:27,210 room to write down what it's being connected to above it, 15 15 00:00:27,210 --> 00:00:29,480 and if I flip this over to the other side, 16 16 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,760 you'll see that it has what looks like a 110 block 17 17 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:34,460 where you can punch down the cables 18 18 00:00:34,460 --> 00:00:36,000 onto the back of these jacks. 19 19 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,710 And each of these, this is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. 20 20 00:00:40,710 --> 00:00:43,180 That gives us the six jacks that we see on the front, 21 21 00:00:43,180 --> 00:00:44,770 and it even shows you a nice little diagram 22 22 00:00:44,770 --> 00:00:47,210 of how you should be punching them down. 23 23 00:00:47,210 --> 00:00:49,490 Now, this is a very small patch panel. 24 24 00:00:49,490 --> 00:00:53,360 In fact, the one I'm holding my hand is only 12 big. 25 25 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:54,770 So it has six here. 26 26 00:00:54,770 --> 00:00:56,630 And when I roll this all the way over, 27 27 00:00:56,630 --> 00:00:58,340 you could see the other six. 28 28 00:00:58,340 --> 00:01:01,240 Now, you'll also notice they have melt holes here 29 29 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:04,000 because this is used inside server racks. 30 30 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,160 This allows me to melt this into the server rack 31 31 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,050 as I'll show you at the end of this video 32 32 00:01:08,050 --> 00:01:11,640 as it'll give you a nice, clean, clear installation. 33 33 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:13,420 Now, if you work in a small office 34 34 00:01:13,420 --> 00:01:15,000 or a home office environment, 35 35 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,230 you may not even be using something like this, 36 36 00:01:17,230 --> 00:01:20,310 but instead you might be using something like this. 37 37 00:01:20,310 --> 00:01:21,780 And so as you can see here, 38 38 00:01:21,780 --> 00:01:24,520 both the punch down and the patch jack 39 39 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:26,450 are both located on the front. 40 40 00:01:26,450 --> 00:01:28,620 Now, either it's going to be the exact same thing. 41 41 00:01:28,620 --> 00:01:31,040 We have What looks like a punch down block, again, 42 42 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,200 a 110 spacing because we're using cat5 or above networks 43 43 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,220 and a network jack that's RJ45 44 44 00:01:36,220 --> 00:01:37,890 for you to plug in a patch cable. 45 45 00:01:37,890 --> 00:01:40,910 So what will happen is the network jack from your office, 46 46 00:01:40,910 --> 00:01:44,980 goes through the walls, comes in and gets punched down here. 47 47 00:01:44,980 --> 00:01:47,320 Then whatever is plugged in here, 48 48 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:49,270 then gets patched into your switch. 49 49 00:01:49,270 --> 00:01:51,520 And I'm going to show you all of this in my rack 50 50 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:53,233 and my server closet after we're done showing you 51 51 00:01:53,233 --> 00:01:55,280 how to do this punch down. 52 52 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:57,230 So let's go ahead and do a punch down. 53 53 00:01:57,230 --> 00:01:59,780 I'm going to use this smaller block because it's a lot easier 54 54 00:01:59,780 --> 00:02:02,070 to film here right here in this little workspace 55 55 00:02:02,070 --> 00:02:02,903 that we're using. 56 56 00:02:02,903 --> 00:02:04,760 So I'm just going to push this down over here 57 57 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:05,840 and kind of go like this 58 58 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:07,330 so hopefully you can see it better. 59 59 00:02:07,330 --> 00:02:10,070 And I'm going to punch down here on port number eight. 60 60 00:02:10,070 --> 00:02:13,110 You'll see that there are the eight punch down blocks 61 61 00:02:13,110 --> 00:02:15,310 and then the place for us to plug that jacket. 62 62 00:02:15,310 --> 00:02:18,200 Now, before I do that, I have to get some cable. 63 63 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:19,980 So I'm going to go to my bulk cable. 64 64 00:02:19,980 --> 00:02:23,220 I'm going to pull off a bunch of it and I'm going to cut it 65 65 00:02:23,220 --> 00:02:26,020 with my crimpers and give me some cable. 66 66 00:02:26,020 --> 00:02:28,260 And now just like I did in the cable making lesson, 67 67 00:02:28,260 --> 00:02:30,450 I'm going to go in here and I'm going to strip this wire. 68 68 00:02:30,450 --> 00:02:33,250 So I'm just going to go right around with my wire striper, 69 69 00:02:33,250 --> 00:02:34,960 take off that outer jacket, 70 70 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,750 and then I'm going to separate out those wires individually. 71 71 00:02:38,750 --> 00:02:41,140 And the nice thing about doing it on a punch down block 72 72 00:02:41,140 --> 00:02:43,470 like this, is I can use a lot of excess wire 73 73 00:02:43,470 --> 00:02:46,120 because my punch will remove the rest. 74 74 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:47,070 Now, I'm going to go through 75 75 00:02:47,070 --> 00:02:50,180 and I'm going to straighten these out, I'll be right back. 76 76 00:02:50,180 --> 00:02:52,060 So I'm back here, and what I've done is 77 77 00:02:52,060 --> 00:02:53,820 I've straightened out those wires. 78 78 00:02:53,820 --> 00:02:55,210 And so they're ready to go. 79 79 00:02:55,210 --> 00:02:56,690 I also have my punch down tool, 80 80 00:02:56,690 --> 00:02:59,110 which is also conveniently part of my stripper. 81 81 00:02:59,110 --> 00:03:00,500 And it's right here at the end 82 82 00:03:00,500 --> 00:03:02,620 you'll see this nice little sharp place. 83 83 00:03:02,620 --> 00:03:05,660 And so what's going to end up happening is as I go here, 84 84 00:03:05,660 --> 00:03:08,440 I'll go through and punch down my wire. 85 85 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:10,200 So I'm just going to come over 86 86 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,530 and pull the first wire over it. 87 87 00:03:12,530 --> 00:03:15,950 And all you have to do to punch it down is simply insert it 88 88 00:03:18,610 --> 00:03:19,473 and push down. 89 89 00:03:21,220 --> 00:03:22,900 It's that easy, and now it's in. 90 90 00:03:22,900 --> 00:03:24,310 And then I'll go through the next one 91 91 00:03:24,310 --> 00:03:27,050 and I'll just continue to match up my color codes, 92 92 00:03:27,050 --> 00:03:28,870 punching them down as I go. 93 93 00:03:28,870 --> 00:03:31,770 Now, I do have a pneumatic one as well, 94 94 00:03:31,770 --> 00:03:33,670 which uses a little bit more pressure. 95 95 00:03:33,670 --> 00:03:35,530 And with the pneumatic one, 96 96 00:03:35,530 --> 00:03:38,100 it will cut off those ends for me automatically. 97 97 00:03:38,100 --> 00:03:39,920 This one does not, so I'll have to go back 98 98 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,440 and trim these ends off afterwards. 99 99 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:44,490 But you get the idea here as you go through 100 100 00:03:44,490 --> 00:03:48,113 and you punch down according to the proper color code. 101 101 00:03:50,990 --> 00:03:54,060 And it just takes a second there as you go through 102 102 00:03:54,060 --> 00:03:55,940 and we just continue to go through 103 103 00:03:55,940 --> 00:03:58,780 and punch them down in the appropriate colors. 104 104 00:03:58,780 --> 00:04:01,110 So you get the idea here as we're going to move on. 105 105 00:04:01,110 --> 00:04:03,160 So that's the way you do things with a punch down block. 106 106 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,330 Now on the other end, you need it to be on your wall jack. 107 107 00:04:06,330 --> 00:04:07,560 Well, how do you do that? 108 108 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,100 Well, you can go to the store and you can buy a wall jack. 109 109 00:04:10,100 --> 00:04:11,700 So for instance, here's one, 110 110 00:04:11,700 --> 00:04:15,900 it's a 110-Type Ivory Keystone Wall Jack, Cat5E. 111 111 00:04:15,900 --> 00:04:16,813 Now, once you open up the package, 112 112 00:04:16,813 --> 00:04:18,100 you're going to have three things. 113 113 00:04:18,100 --> 00:04:20,650 One is the actual car that came with the package itself. 114 114 00:04:20,650 --> 00:04:23,410 This tells me my wiring diagram, in case you forgot it, 115 115 00:04:23,410 --> 00:04:27,510 the T568A and the T568B. 116 116 00:04:27,510 --> 00:04:29,340 On the other side of this, you're also going to have 117 117 00:04:29,340 --> 00:04:31,140 how it should look when you're done. 118 118 00:04:31,140 --> 00:04:34,680 And I'll show you this here, just like that. 119 119 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,560 And you're going to have the Keystone itself, 120 120 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,220 which is where you're going to wire it in. 121 121 00:04:38,220 --> 00:04:41,450 And it tells you A and B right here on the side 122 122 00:04:41,450 --> 00:04:42,640 with the right color. 123 123 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,650 So if we're doing A, the first pen is going to be green-white, 124 124 00:04:46,650 --> 00:04:50,100 two is going to be green, three is going to be orange-white, 125 125 00:04:50,100 --> 00:04:51,950 and six is going to be orange. 126 126 00:04:51,950 --> 00:04:54,770 And if we're doing B, then we're going to flop those around. 127 127 00:04:54,770 --> 00:04:58,290 On the other side, you're going to see that 4,5 8 and 7 128 128 00:04:58,290 --> 00:04:59,820 are always going to be the same colors, 129 129 00:04:59,820 --> 00:05:02,660 blue, blue-white, brown and brown-white. 130 130 00:05:02,660 --> 00:05:04,190 And what we're going to do is do the same exact 131 131 00:05:04,190 --> 00:05:05,750 punch down technique we just did, 132 132 00:05:05,750 --> 00:05:08,640 and then we're going to cover it off with this little cap. 133 133 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,725 So if I grabbed that cable and I'm going to go ahead 134 134 00:05:11,725 --> 00:05:12,732 and grab it, and let's see, 135 135 00:05:12,732 --> 00:05:16,310 we're going to start out here with the brown-white on 7. 136 136 00:05:16,310 --> 00:05:18,900 So I'll grab my brown-white cable, 137 137 00:05:18,900 --> 00:05:20,740 and I'm going to bring it in here. 138 138 00:05:20,740 --> 00:05:22,836 I'm going to take my punch down tool 139 139 00:05:22,836 --> 00:05:24,703 and I'm going to punch it. 140 140 00:05:26,210 --> 00:05:27,043 There we go. 141 141 00:05:27,043 --> 00:05:29,770 And then I'm going to do the same thing with brown 142 142 00:05:29,770 --> 00:05:33,680 and continue to do that all the way across for all of those. 143 143 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:35,988 Okay, so I finished wiring this one up and as you can see, 144 144 00:05:35,988 --> 00:05:39,420 we have the excess wires hanging out on both sides. 145 145 00:05:39,420 --> 00:05:41,360 And it just comes in like that. 146 146 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:45,510 And we would just close this up, just like that. 147 147 00:05:45,510 --> 00:05:48,240 And we'd want to cut off all this excess wire. 148 148 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,140 The tool I'm using this is a very inexpensive 149 149 00:05:51,140 --> 00:05:52,170 punch down tool. 150 150 00:05:52,170 --> 00:05:53,060 If you have a much better one, 151 151 00:05:53,060 --> 00:05:55,320 it'll actually cut the wires as you're going. 152 152 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:57,530 Now, once you have this Keystone, what do you do with it? 153 153 00:05:57,530 --> 00:05:58,930 Well, you want it to look like a wall jack. 154 154 00:05:58,930 --> 00:06:00,820 And so that's when we buy something like this, 155 155 00:06:00,820 --> 00:06:02,790 which again, costs me a dollar. 156 156 00:06:02,790 --> 00:06:05,760 And so then you're going to take the wall jack and the Keystone 157 157 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:07,560 and the Keystone simply goes into it. 158 158 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,460 And you can see that there's this little hole here 159 159 00:06:10,460 --> 00:06:13,380 and we just put it in place, squeeze it together. 160 160 00:06:13,380 --> 00:06:16,460 And now you have a network wall jack for your office 161 161 00:06:16,460 --> 00:06:18,100 that looks nice and professional. 162 162 00:06:18,100 --> 00:06:19,790 And again, you can make sure the colors all match. 163 163 00:06:19,790 --> 00:06:22,260 So you have ivory and ivory or white and white. 164 164 00:06:22,260 --> 00:06:23,460 But again, this was just something I was doing 165 165 00:06:23,460 --> 00:06:24,600 for a demonstration. 166 166 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,210 So now that I showed you the basics, 167 167 00:06:26,210 --> 00:06:27,900 let's go see what the final product 168 168 00:06:27,900 --> 00:06:30,260 really looks like in the real world. 169 169 00:06:30,260 --> 00:06:33,130 So I'm going to take you over into my server room 170 170 00:06:33,130 --> 00:06:35,010 and we're going to take a look at one of our mini racks, 171 171 00:06:35,010 --> 00:06:36,530 and you'll see that we have a patch panel there 172 172 00:06:36,530 --> 00:06:38,880 and you'll see how everything is wired up nicely 173 173 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:40,570 and how we have everything cabled away. 174 174 00:06:40,570 --> 00:06:42,490 And that's what you want your end product to look like. 175 175 00:06:42,490 --> 00:06:44,210 You want it to be nice and open, 176 176 00:06:44,210 --> 00:06:45,600 have all the cables out of the way, 177 177 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:47,310 so good air flow can happen, 178 178 00:06:47,310 --> 00:06:48,880 and you can always have everything labeled 179 179 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:50,310 and know where things are going. 180 180 00:06:50,310 --> 00:06:51,350 Let's go take a look. 181 181 00:06:51,350 --> 00:06:54,360 So here you can see a small office rack. 182 182 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:56,210 And again, this is a very small office rack 183 183 00:06:56,210 --> 00:06:59,130 because we're only supporting up to 24 wall jacks. 184 184 00:06:59,130 --> 00:07:00,870 Up here at the top, you're going to see 185 185 00:07:00,870 --> 00:07:03,130 that we have a switch and we have a patch panel. 186 186 00:07:03,130 --> 00:07:05,270 Now what you can see here on the left side 187 187 00:07:05,270 --> 00:07:06,670 is that they are rack mounted, 188 188 00:07:06,670 --> 00:07:08,540 and so they are screwed into the rack. 189 189 00:07:08,540 --> 00:07:10,470 This is what we call a 2-4 Post. 190 190 00:07:10,470 --> 00:07:12,450 And that just refers to the spacing 191 191 00:07:12,450 --> 00:07:15,750 between these particular nuts and bolts. 192 192 00:07:15,750 --> 00:07:17,440 So this is called a 2-4 Post. 193 193 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:18,670 If you see that on the exam, 194 194 00:07:18,670 --> 00:07:20,140 that's what we're talking about. 195 195 00:07:20,140 --> 00:07:21,950 Up here at the top is a patch panel. 196 196 00:07:21,950 --> 00:07:24,790 And I'm using these small six inch cables going 197 197 00:07:24,790 --> 00:07:28,670 from the port that is going to the jack in this person's office 198 198 00:07:28,670 --> 00:07:29,860 or this other person's office. 199 199 00:07:29,860 --> 00:07:32,150 We have all of these 24 ports across the top, 200 200 00:07:32,150 --> 00:07:34,040 and then we have a 24-port switch. 201 201 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:35,590 And so we just have it cabled up 202 202 00:07:35,590 --> 00:07:38,150 from port one to switch port one. 203 203 00:07:38,150 --> 00:07:41,390 Switch port two to port two, and that will go through. 204 204 00:07:41,390 --> 00:07:43,840 Above this, you can't see it because of the cables, 205 205 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,530 but it is labeled and it says, this is Jason's office, 206 206 00:07:46,530 --> 00:07:48,070 or this is Temrer's office 207 207 00:07:48,070 --> 00:07:49,890 or whoever's computer it's going to. 208 208 00:07:49,890 --> 00:07:51,445 Now, why would we want to use a patch panel 209 209 00:07:51,445 --> 00:07:54,250 as opposed to plugging directly into the switch? 210 210 00:07:54,250 --> 00:07:57,750 Now in our situation, we don't move offices very often. 211 211 00:07:57,750 --> 00:07:59,390 And so there's really no reason, 212 212 00:07:59,390 --> 00:08:01,190 we just did it because we like to. 213 213 00:08:01,190 --> 00:08:03,450 In a real office though, a lot of times people 214 214 00:08:03,450 --> 00:08:05,370 and equipment move all the time. 215 215 00:08:05,370 --> 00:08:07,830 And if you're going to be plugging and unplugging people 216 216 00:08:07,830 --> 00:08:10,220 to different switch ports and moving them around, 217 217 00:08:10,220 --> 00:08:12,780 you can actually break the switch ports 218 218 00:08:12,780 --> 00:08:15,070 and you can't really replace these switch ports 219 219 00:08:15,070 --> 00:08:16,230 when they break. 220 220 00:08:16,230 --> 00:08:17,750 They're already inside this switch. 221 221 00:08:17,750 --> 00:08:19,870 And so I'm going to have to replace this $500 222 222 00:08:19,870 --> 00:08:23,160 or a $1,000 switch, if one of these ports breaks. 223 223 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,250 This patch panel on the other hand costs about $50. 224 224 00:08:26,250 --> 00:08:29,690 And so if it breaks, I can simply switch out 225 225 00:08:29,690 --> 00:08:31,710 to a new patch panel very quickly 226 226 00:08:31,710 --> 00:08:33,500 and get the whole office back up and running. 227 227 00:08:33,500 --> 00:08:36,490 So it's just a matter of keeping your costs down 228 228 00:08:36,490 --> 00:08:38,340 and giving you the flexibility you need 229 229 00:08:38,340 --> 00:08:40,860 to be able to move things around whenever you need to. 230 230 00:08:40,860 --> 00:08:43,060 Proper wiring is always going to say, 231 231 00:08:43,060 --> 00:08:45,700 you go from a switch to a patch panel, 232 232 00:08:45,700 --> 00:08:48,580 and from the back of that patch panel, it's punched down, 233 233 00:08:48,580 --> 00:08:50,430 and that goes to the back of the Keystone, 234 234 00:08:50,430 --> 00:08:51,750 which becomes a wall jack, 235 235 00:08:51,750 --> 00:08:54,000 just like I showed you inside this lesson. 236 236 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,930 I hope you've enjoyed this behind the scenes look 237 237 00:08:55,930 --> 00:08:58,320 at how these patch panels and wall jacks 238 238 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,430 and cable distributions are run inside a small office 239 239 00:09:01,430 --> 00:09:03,210 or a home office environment. 240 240 00:09:03,210 --> 00:09:04,320 Now, again, you've been introduced 241 241 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,090 to both kinds of patch panels, the front facing ones, 242 242 00:09:07,090 --> 00:09:09,460 and the little single pieces that we showed you, 243 243 00:09:09,460 --> 00:09:11,860 as well as one of the rack mounted patch panels 244 244 00:09:11,860 --> 00:09:13,930 as you saw in my own network. 245 245 00:09:13,930 --> 00:09:15,030 I hope you've enjoyed this 246 246 00:09:15,030 --> 00:09:16,783 and I'll see you in the next lesson.