WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.420 --> 00:00:02.250 Let's talk about wiring a network. 2 00:00:02.250 --> 00:00:04.230 So we talked about cable distribution 3 00:00:04.230 --> 00:00:06.090 and I mentioned things like patch panels 4 00:00:06.090 --> 00:00:07.470 and how you're going to connect your switches 5 00:00:07.470 --> 00:00:09.600 and your routers through the patch panels. 6 00:00:09.600 --> 00:00:10.830 And that's going to connect back 7 00:00:10.830 --> 00:00:13.401 into your offices into that network wall jack. 8 00:00:13.401 --> 00:00:15.330 In this lesson, I'm going to show you 9 00:00:15.330 --> 00:00:16.920 how we wire up those devices 10 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:18.660 and give you a hands on look at them. 11 00:00:18.660 --> 00:00:19.680 Now you look at a patch panel, 12 00:00:19.680 --> 00:00:21.150 there are many different kinds of them. 13 00:00:21.150 --> 00:00:23.165 You'll notice that it has six different patch panel jacks, 14 00:00:23.165 --> 00:00:24.565 room to write down 15 00:00:24.565 --> 00:00:27.240 what it's being connected to, above it. 16 00:00:27.240 --> 00:00:29.490 And if I flip this over to the other side 17 00:00:29.490 --> 00:00:30.840 you'll see that it has 18 00:00:30.840 --> 00:00:33.600 what looks like a 110 block where you can punch 19 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:35.704 down the cables onto the back of these jacks. 20 00:00:35.704 --> 00:00:40.704 And each of these, this is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. 21 00:00:40.710 --> 00:00:43.200 That gives us the six jacks that we see on the front. 22 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:44.760 And it even shows you a nice little diagram 23 00:00:44.760 --> 00:00:47.190 of how you should be punching them down. 24 00:00:47.190 --> 00:00:49.500 Now, this is a very small patch panel. 25 00:00:49.500 --> 00:00:53.370 In fact, the one I'm holding my hand is only 12 big. 26 00:00:53.370 --> 00:00:54.810 So it has six here. 27 00:00:54.810 --> 00:00:56.305 And when I roll this all the way over 28 00:00:56.305 --> 00:00:58.350 you could see the other six. 29 00:00:58.350 --> 00:01:01.260 Now you'll also notice they have mount holes here 30 00:01:01.260 --> 00:01:03.990 because this is used inside server racks. 31 00:01:03.990 --> 00:01:06.150 This allows me to mount this into the server rack. 32 00:01:06.150 --> 00:01:08.070 As I'll show you at the end of this video 33 00:01:08.070 --> 00:01:11.640 as it'll give you a nice clean, clear installation. 34 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:12.473 Now, if you work 35 00:01:12.473 --> 00:01:15.000 in a small office or a home office environment 36 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:16.875 you may not even be using something like this 37 00:01:16.875 --> 00:01:20.280 but instead you might be using something like this. 38 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:22.615 And so, as you can see here, both the punch down 39 00:01:22.615 --> 00:01:26.460 and the patch jack are both located on the front. 40 00:01:26.460 --> 00:01:28.620 Now either is going to be the exact same thing. 41 00:01:28.620 --> 00:01:31.020 We have, what looks like a punch down block, again 42 00:01:31.020 --> 00:01:32.400 a 110 spacing because we're 43 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:34.830 using cat 5 or above networks and a network. 44 00:01:34.830 --> 00:01:37.890 Jack that's RJ 45 feet of plug in a patch cable. 45 00:01:37.890 --> 00:01:40.920 So what will happen is the network Jack from your office 46 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:44.970 goes through the walls, comes in and gets punched down here. 47 00:01:44.970 --> 00:01:46.765 Then whatever is plugged in here 48 00:01:46.765 --> 00:01:49.290 then gets patched into your switch. 49 00:01:49.290 --> 00:01:50.123 And I'm going to show you all 50 00:01:50.123 --> 00:01:52.860 of this in my rack and my server closet 51 00:01:52.860 --> 00:01:55.290 after we're done showing you how to do this punch down. 52 00:01:55.290 --> 00:01:57.210 So let's go ahead and do a punch down. 53 00:01:57.210 --> 00:01:58.575 I'm going to use this smaller block 54 00:01:58.575 --> 00:02:01.260 because it's a lot easier to film here right here 55 00:02:01.260 --> 00:02:02.850 in this little workspace that we're using. 56 00:02:02.850 --> 00:02:03.840 So I'm just going to push this 57 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:05.850 down over here and kind of go like this. 58 00:02:05.850 --> 00:02:07.410 So hopefully you can see it better. 59 00:02:07.410 --> 00:02:10.080 And I'm going to punch down here on port number eight. 60 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:12.330 You'll see that there are the eight punch 61 00:02:12.330 --> 00:02:14.775 down blocks and then the place for us to plug that jack in. 62 00:02:14.775 --> 00:02:17.864 Now, before I do that, I have to get some cable. 63 00:02:17.864 --> 00:02:19.980 So I'm going to go to my bulk cable. 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 00:02:23.220 --> 00:02:26.010 with my crimper and gimme some cable. 66 00:02:26.010 --> 00:02:28.230 And now just like I did in the cable making lesson 67 00:02:28.230 --> 00:02:30.450 I'm going to go in here and I'm going to strip this wire. 68 00:02:30.450 --> 00:02:33.240 So I'm just going to go right around with my wire stripper 69 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:34.980 take off that outer jacket 70 00:02:34.980 --> 00:02:38.394 and then I'm going to separate out those wires individually. 71 00:02:38.394 --> 00:02:41.130 And the nice thing about doing it on a punch down block 72 00:02:41.130 --> 00:02:43.058 like this is, I can use a lot of excess wire 73 00:02:43.058 --> 00:02:46.110 because my punch will remove the rest. 74 00:02:46.110 --> 00:02:48.540 Now I'm going to go through it, I'm going to straighten these out, 75 00:02:48.540 --> 00:02:50.190 I'll be right back. 76 00:02:50.190 --> 00:02:51.330 So I'm back here. 77 00:02:51.330 --> 00:02:53.850 And what I've done is I've straightened out those wires. 78 00:02:53.850 --> 00:02:55.200 And so they're ready to go. 79 00:02:55.200 --> 00:02:56.700 I also have my punch down tool 80 00:02:56.700 --> 00:02:59.220 which is also conveniently part of my stripper. 81 00:02:59.220 --> 00:03:00.510 And it's right here at the end 82 00:03:00.510 --> 00:03:02.670 you'll see this nice little sharp place. 83 00:03:02.670 --> 00:03:05.700 And so what's going to end up happening is as I go here 84 00:03:05.700 --> 00:03:08.430 I'll go through and punch down my wire. 85 00:03:08.430 --> 00:03:12.540 So I'm just going to come over and pull the first wire over it. 86 00:03:12.540 --> 00:03:15.113 And all you have to do to punch it down 87 00:03:15.113 --> 00:03:19.443 is simply insert it and push down. 88 00:03:21.210 --> 00:03:22.043 It's that easy. 89 00:03:22.043 --> 00:03:24.300 And now it's in and then I'll go through the next one 90 00:03:24.300 --> 00:03:27.030 and I'll just continue to match up my color codes 91 00:03:27.030 --> 00:03:28.890 punching them down as I go. 92 00:03:28.890 --> 00:03:30.780 Now I do have a pneumatic one 93 00:03:30.780 --> 00:03:33.840 as well which uses a little bit more pressure. 94 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:35.550 And with the pneumatic one 95 00:03:35.550 --> 00:03:37.745 it will cut off those ends for me automatically. 96 00:03:37.745 --> 00:03:39.090 This one does not. 97 00:03:39.090 --> 00:03:42.450 So I'll have to go back and trim these ends off afterwards 98 00:03:42.450 --> 00:03:44.460 but you get the idea here as you go through 99 00:03:44.460 --> 00:03:48.010 and you punch down according to the proper color code 100 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:52.530 it just takes a second there 101 00:03:52.530 --> 00:03:55.260 as you go through and we just continue to go 102 00:03:55.260 --> 00:03:58.800 through and punch them down in the appropriate colors. 103 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:01.110 So you get the idea here as we're going to move on. 104 00:04:01.110 --> 00:04:03.150 So that's the way you do things with a punch down block. 105 00:04:03.150 --> 00:04:04.710 Now on the other end, you need it 106 00:04:04.710 --> 00:04:07.560 to be on your wall jack right, well, how do you do that? 107 00:04:07.560 --> 00:04:10.110 Well, you can go to the store and you can buy a wall Jack. 108 00:04:10.110 --> 00:04:11.700 So for instance, here is one 109 00:04:11.700 --> 00:04:15.900 it's a 110 type ivory Keystone wall jack cat 5E. 110 00:04:15.900 --> 00:04:17.130 Now, once you open up the package 111 00:04:17.130 --> 00:04:18.090 you're going to have three things. 112 00:04:18.090 --> 00:04:20.304 One is the actual card that came with the package itself. 113 00:04:20.304 --> 00:04:23.400 This tells me my wiring diagram, in case you forgot it 114 00:04:23.400 --> 00:04:27.142 the T568A and the T568B. 115 00:04:27.142 --> 00:04:28.470 On the other side of this 116 00:04:28.470 --> 00:04:31.140 you're also going to have how it should look when you're done. 117 00:04:31.140 --> 00:04:34.710 And I'll show you this here, just like that. 118 00:04:34.710 --> 00:04:36.570 And you're going to have the keystone itself 119 00:04:36.570 --> 00:04:38.250 which is where you're going to wire it in. 120 00:04:38.250 --> 00:04:39.245 And it tells you A and B 121 00:04:39.245 --> 00:04:42.660 right here on the side with the right color. 122 00:04:42.660 --> 00:04:45.750 So if we're doing A, the first pin is going to be green 123 00:04:45.750 --> 00:04:48.300 white two is going to be green. 124 00:04:48.300 --> 00:04:51.930 Three is going to be orange white, and six is going to be orange. 125 00:04:51.930 --> 00:04:54.335 And if we're doing B, then we're going to flop those around. 126 00:04:54.335 --> 00:04:57.564 On the other side, you're going to see that 4, 5, 8 and 7 127 00:04:57.564 --> 00:04:59.820 are always going to be the same colors 128 00:04:59.820 --> 00:05:02.385 blue, blue white, brown, and brown white. 129 00:05:02.385 --> 00:05:04.440 And what we're going to do is do the same exact punch 130 00:05:04.440 --> 00:05:05.730 down technique we just did. 131 00:05:05.730 --> 00:05:08.670 And then we're going to cover it off with this little cap. 132 00:05:08.670 --> 00:05:11.310 So if I grab that cable 133 00:05:11.310 --> 00:05:13.110 and I'm going to go ahead and grab it, and let's see 134 00:05:13.110 --> 00:05:16.320 we're going to start out here with the brown white on seven. 135 00:05:16.320 --> 00:05:18.900 So I'll grab my brown white cable 136 00:05:18.900 --> 00:05:20.730 and I'm going to bring it in here. 137 00:05:20.730 --> 00:05:24.693 I'm going to take my punch down tool and I'm going to punch it. 138 00:05:25.845 --> 00:05:26.970 There we go. 139 00:05:26.970 --> 00:05:29.790 And then I'm going to do the same thing with brown 140 00:05:29.790 --> 00:05:33.690 and continue to do that all the way across for all of those. 141 00:05:33.690 --> 00:05:36.360 Okay, so I finished wiring this one up and as you can see 142 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:38.280 we have the excess wires hanging out 143 00:05:38.280 --> 00:05:41.370 on both sides and it just comes in like that. 144 00:05:41.370 --> 00:05:45.510 And we would then just close this up, just like that. 145 00:05:45.510 --> 00:05:47.700 And we want to cut off all this excess wire. 146 00:05:47.700 --> 00:05:51.120 I just, the tool I'm using, this is a very inexpensive 147 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:52.200 punch down tool. 148 00:05:52.200 --> 00:05:54.120 If you have a much better one, it'll actually cut the wires 149 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:55.320 as you're going. 150 00:05:55.320 --> 00:05:57.510 Now, once you have this keystone, what do you do with it? 151 00:05:57.510 --> 00:05:58.950 Well, you want it to look like a wall jack. 152 00:05:58.950 --> 00:06:00.840 And so that's when we buy something like this, 153 00:06:00.840 --> 00:06:02.790 which again costs me a dollar. 154 00:06:02.790 --> 00:06:04.710 And so then you're going to take the wall jack 155 00:06:04.710 --> 00:06:07.560 and the keystone and the keystone simply goes into it. 156 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:10.440 And you can see that there's this little hole here 157 00:06:10.440 --> 00:06:13.075 and we just put it in place, squeeze it together. 158 00:06:13.075 --> 00:06:16.470 And now you have a network wall jack for your office 159 00:06:16.470 --> 00:06:18.120 that looks nice and professional. 160 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:19.800 And again, you can make sure the colors all match. 161 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:22.290 So you have ivory and ivory or white and white. 162 00:06:22.290 --> 00:06:23.160 But again this is just something 163 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:24.600 I was doing for a demonstration. 164 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:26.190 So now that I showed you the basics 165 00:06:26.190 --> 00:06:28.500 let's go see what the final product really looks 166 00:06:28.500 --> 00:06:30.270 like in the real world. 167 00:06:30.270 --> 00:06:32.795 So I'm going to take you over into my server room 168 00:06:32.795 --> 00:06:35.010 and we're going to take a look at one of our mini racks 169 00:06:35.010 --> 00:06:36.990 and you'll see that we have a patch panel there 170 00:06:36.990 --> 00:06:38.590 and you'll see how everything is wired up nicely 171 00:06:38.590 --> 00:06:40.620 and how we have everything cabled away. 172 00:06:40.620 --> 00:06:42.480 And that's what you want your end product to look like. 173 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:43.530 You want it to be nice 174 00:06:43.530 --> 00:06:45.600 and open have all the cables out of the way. 175 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:47.940 So good airflow can happen, and you can always 176 00:06:47.940 --> 00:06:50.310 have everything labeled and know where things are going. 177 00:06:50.310 --> 00:06:51.360 Let's go take a look. 178 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:53.955 So here you can see a small office rack. 179 00:06:53.955 --> 00:06:56.220 And again, this is a very small office rack 180 00:06:56.220 --> 00:06:58.555 because we're only supporting up to 24 wall jacks. 181 00:06:58.555 --> 00:07:00.240 Up here at the top, 182 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:01.890 you're going to see that we have a switch 183 00:07:01.890 --> 00:07:03.150 and we have a patch panel. 184 00:07:03.150 --> 00:07:04.170 Now, what you can see here 185 00:07:04.170 --> 00:07:06.660 on the left side is that they are rack mounted. 186 00:07:06.660 --> 00:07:07.500 And so they are screwed 187 00:07:07.500 --> 00:07:10.035 into the rack, up here at the top is a patch panel. 188 00:07:10.035 --> 00:07:13.170 And I'm using these small six inch cables going 189 00:07:13.170 --> 00:07:15.690 from the port that is going to the jack 190 00:07:15.690 --> 00:07:18.240 in this person's office or this other person's office. 191 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:19.770 We have all of these 24 ports 192 00:07:19.770 --> 00:07:22.410 across the top and then we have a 24 port switch. 193 00:07:22.410 --> 00:07:23.655 And so we just have it cabled up 194 00:07:23.655 --> 00:07:26.245 from port one to switch port one 195 00:07:26.245 --> 00:07:28.380 switch port two to port two. 196 00:07:28.380 --> 00:07:30.780 And that will go through it above this. 197 00:07:30.780 --> 00:07:33.000 You can't see it because of the cables, but it is labeled. 198 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:34.920 And it says, this is Jason's office 199 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:36.480 or this is Tamara's office 200 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:38.280 or whoever's computer it's going to. 201 00:07:38.280 --> 00:07:40.140 Now, why would we want to use a patch panel 202 00:07:40.140 --> 00:07:42.660 as opposed to plugging directly into the switch? 203 00:07:42.660 --> 00:07:46.170 Now in our situation, we don't move offices very often. 204 00:07:46.170 --> 00:07:48.300 And so there's really no reason we just did it 205 00:07:48.300 --> 00:07:51.060 because we like to, in a real office though, a lot 206 00:07:51.060 --> 00:07:53.475 of times people and equipment and move all the time. 207 00:07:53.475 --> 00:07:56.220 And if you're going to be plugging and unplugging people 208 00:07:56.220 --> 00:07:58.235 to different switch ports and moving them around, 209 00:07:58.235 --> 00:08:01.200 you can actually break these switch ports 210 00:08:01.200 --> 00:08:03.450 and you can't really replace these switch ports 211 00:08:03.450 --> 00:08:06.150 when they break they're already inside this switch. 212 00:08:06.150 --> 00:08:08.250 And so I'm going to have to replace this 500 213 00:08:08.250 --> 00:08:11.550 or a thousand dollars switch If one of these ports breaks. 214 00:08:11.550 --> 00:08:14.455 This patch panel, on the other hand costs about $50. 215 00:08:14.455 --> 00:08:18.090 And so if it breaks, I can simply switch out 216 00:08:18.090 --> 00:08:20.100 to a new patch panel very quickly 217 00:08:20.100 --> 00:08:21.900 and get the whole office back up and running. 218 00:08:21.900 --> 00:08:23.160 So it's just a matter 219 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:26.250 of keeping your costs down and giving you the flexibility. 220 00:08:26.250 --> 00:08:27.510 You need to be able to move things 221 00:08:27.510 --> 00:08:29.250 around whenever you need to. 222 00:08:29.250 --> 00:08:31.440 Proper wiring is always going to say 223 00:08:31.440 --> 00:08:33.735 you go from a switch to a patch panel. 224 00:08:33.735 --> 00:08:36.990 And from the back of that patch panel, it's punch down. 225 00:08:36.990 --> 00:08:38.820 And that goes to the back of a keystone 226 00:08:38.820 --> 00:08:41.010 which becomes a wall jack just like I showed you 227 00:08:41.010 --> 00:08:42.390 inside this lesson. 228 00:08:42.390 --> 00:08:44.034 I hope you've enjoyed this behind the scenes look 229 00:08:44.034 --> 00:08:45.840 at how these patch panels 230 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:48.360 and wall jacks and cable distributions are run 231 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:51.600 inside a small office or a home office environment. 232 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:52.710 Now, again, you've been introduced 233 00:08:52.710 --> 00:08:55.470 to both kinds of patch panels, the front facing ones 234 00:08:55.470 --> 00:08:57.840 in the little single pieces that we showed you 235 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:00.270 as well as one of the rack mounted patch panels 236 00:09:00.270 --> 00:09:02.310 as you saw in my own network. 237 00:09:02.310 --> 00:09:03.420 I hope you've enjoyed this 238 00:09:03.420 --> 00:09:05.183 and I'll see you in the next lesson.