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