-: Let's talk about wiring a network.
So we talked about cable distribution
and I mentioned things like patch panels
and how you're going to connect your switches
and your routers through the patch panels.
And that's going to connect back
into your offices into that network wall jack.
In this lesson, I'm going to show you
how we wire up those devices
and give you a hands on look at them.
Now you look at a patch panel,
there are many different kinds of them.
You'll notice that it has six different patch panel jacks,
room to write down
what it's being connected to, above it.
And if I flip this over to the other side
you'll see that it has
what looks like a 110 block where you can punch
down the cables onto the back of these jacks.
And each of these, this is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
That gives us the six jacks that we see on the front.
And it even shows you a nice little diagram
of how you should be punching them down.
Now, this is a very small patch panel.
In fact, the one I'm holding my hand is only 12 big.
So it has six here.
And when I roll this all the way over
you could see the other six.
Now you'll also notice they have mount holes here
because this is used inside server racks.
This allows me to mount this into the server rack.
As I'll show you at the end of this video
as it'll give you a nice clean, clear installation.
Now, if you work
in a small office or a home office environment
you may not even be using something like this
but instead you might be using something like this.
And so, as you can see here, both the punch down
and the patch jack are both located on the front.
Now either is going to be the exact same thing.
We have, what looks like a punch down block, again
a 110 spacing because we're
using cat 5 or above networks and a network.
Jack that's RJ 45 feet of plug in a patch cable.
So what will happen is the network Jack from your office
goes through the walls, comes in and gets punched down here.
Then whatever is plugged in here
then gets patched into your switch.
And I'm going to show you all
of this in my rack and my server closet
after we're done showing you how to do this punch down.
So let's go ahead and do a punch down.
I'm going to use this smaller block
because it's a lot easier to film here right here
in this little workspace that we're using.
So I'm just going to push this
down over here and kind of go like this.
So hopefully you can see it better.
And I'm going to punch down here on port number eight.
You'll see that there are the eight punch
down blocks and then the place for us to plug that jack in.
Now, before I do that, I have to get some cable.
So I'm going to go to my bulk cable.
I'm going to pull off a bunch of it and I'm going to cut it
with my crimper and gimme some cable.
And now just like I did in the cable making lesson
I'm going to go in here and I'm going to strip this wire.
So I'm just going to go right around with my wire stripper
take off that outer jacket
and then I'm going to separate out those wires individually.
And the nice thing about doing it on a punch down block
like this is, I can use a lot of excess wire
because my punch will remove the rest.
Now I'm going to go through it, I'm going to straighten these out,
I'll be right back.
So I'm back here.
And what I've done is I've straightened out those wires.
And so they're ready to go.
I also have my punch down tool
which is also conveniently part of my stripper.
And it's right here at the end
you'll see this nice little sharp place.
And so what's going to end up happening is as I go here
I'll go through and punch down my wire.
So I'm just going to come over and pull the first wire over it.
And all you have to do to punch it down
is simply insert it and push down.
It's that easy.
And now it's in and then I'll go through the next one
and I'll just continue to match up my color codes
punching them down as I go.
Now I do have a pneumatic one
as well which uses a little bit more pressure.
And with the pneumatic one
it will cut off those ends for me automatically.
This one does not.
So I'll have to go back and trim these ends off afterwards
but you get the idea here as you go through
and you punch down according to the proper color code
it just takes a second there
as you go through and we just continue to go
through and punch them down in the appropriate colors.
So you get the idea here as we're going to move on.
So that's the way you do things with a punch down block.
Now on the other end, you need it
to be on your wall jack right, well, how do you do that?
Well, you can go to the store and you can buy a wall Jack.
So for instance, here is one
it's a 110 type ivory Keystone wall jack cat 5E.
Now, once you open up the package
you're going to have three things.
One is the actual card that came with the package itself.
This tells me my wiring diagram, in case you forgot it
the T568A and the T568B.
On the other side of this
you're also going to have how it should look when you're done.
And I'll show you this here, just like that.
And you're going to have the keystone itself
which is where you're going to wire it in.
And it tells you A and B
right here on the side with the right color.
So if we're doing A, the first pin is going to be green
white two is going to be green.
Three is going to be orange white, and six is going to be orange.
And if we're doing B, then we're going to flop those around.
On the other side, you're going to see that 4, 5, 8 and 7
are always going to be the same colors
blue, blue white, brown, and brown white.
And what we're going to do is do the same exact punch
down technique we just did.
And then we're going to cover it off with this little cap.
So if I grab that cable
and I'm going to go ahead and grab it, and let's see
we're going to start out here with the brown white on seven.
So I'll grab my brown white cable
and I'm going to bring it in here.
I'm going to take my punch down tool and I'm going to punch it.
There we go.
And then I'm going to do the same thing with brown
and continue to do that all the way across for all of those.
Okay, so I finished wiring this one up and as you can see
we have the excess wires hanging out
on both sides and it just comes in like that.
And we would then just close this up, just like that.
And we want to cut off all this excess wire.
I just, the tool I'm using, this is a very inexpensive
punch down tool.
If you have a much better one, it'll actually cut the wires
as you're going.
Now, once you have this keystone, what do you do with it?
Well, you want it to look like a wall jack.
And so that's when we buy something like this,
which again costs me a dollar.
And so then you're going to take the wall jack
and the keystone and the keystone simply goes into it.
And you can see that there's this little hole here
and we just put it in place, squeeze it together.
And now you have a network wall jack for your office
that looks nice and professional.
And again, you can make sure the colors all match.
So you have ivory and ivory or white and white.
But again this is just something
I was doing for a demonstration.
So now that I showed you the basics
let's go see what the final product really looks
like in the real world.
So I'm going to take you over into my server room
and we're going to take a look at one of our mini racks
and you'll see that we have a patch panel there
and you'll see how everything is wired up nicely
and how we have everything cabled away.
And that's what you want your end product to look like.
You want it to be nice
and open have all the cables out of the way.
So good airflow can happen, and you can always
have everything labeled and know where things are going.
Let's go take a look.
So here you can see a small office rack.
And again, this is a very small office rack
because we're only supporting up to 24 wall jacks.
Up here at the top,
you're going to see that we have a switch
and we have a patch panel.
Now, what you can see here
on the left side is that they are rack mounted.
And so they are screwed
into the rack, up here at the top is a patch panel.
And I'm using these small six inch cables going
from the port that is going to the jack
in this person's office or this other person's office.
We have all of these 24 ports
across the top and then we have a 24 port switch.
And so we just have it cabled up
from port one to switch port one
switch port two to port two.
And that will go through it above this.
You can't see it because of the cables, but it is labeled.
And it says, this is Jason's office
or this is Tamara's office
or whoever's computer it's going to.
Now, why would we want to use a patch panel
as opposed to plugging directly into the switch?
Now in our situation, we don't move offices very often.
And so there's really no reason we just did it
because we like to, in a real office though, a lot
of times people and equipment and move all the time.
And if you're going to be plugging and unplugging people
to different switch ports and moving them around,
you can actually break these switch ports
and you can't really replace these switch ports
when they break they're already inside this switch.
And so I'm going to have to replace this 500
or a thousand dollars switch If one of these ports breaks.
This patch panel, on the other hand costs about $50.
And so if it breaks, I can simply switch out
to a new patch panel very quickly
and get the whole office back up and running.
So it's just a matter
of keeping your costs down and giving you the flexibility.
You need to be able to move things
around whenever you need to.
Proper wiring is always going to say
you go from a switch to a patch panel.
And from the back of that patch panel, it's punch down.
And that goes to the back of a keystone
which becomes a wall jack just like I showed you
inside this lesson.
I hope you've enjoyed this behind the scenes look
at how these patch panels
and wall jacks and cable distributions are run
inside a small office or a home office environment.
Now, again, you've been introduced
to both kinds of patch panels, the front facing ones
in the little single pieces that we showed you
as well as one of the rack mounted patch panels
as you saw in my own network.
I hope you've enjoyed this
and I'll see you in the next lesson.