Structured Cabling
Backbone Cabling
A system of cabling that connects the equipment rooms and telecommunications rooms.
Backbone cabling consists of cables that connect the telecommunication closets, the termination of cable elements, and the reconnection of those elements by jumpers, termination blocks, and/or cables to another cabling element (cable or patch panel). Backbone cabling runs between wiring closets and the equipment room. Physical backbone cabling is UTP, STP, or Fiber Optics depending on application and distance.
Specialized services
- Cabling between equipment rooms and building entrances.
- Cabling between the buildings.
- Vertical connections between the floors.
- Building grounding and bonding requirements.
- Avoidance of electromagnetic interference or radio-frequency interference.
- Star topology backbone implementations.