1. What is structured cabling?

- Structured cabling refers to a set of standards and methods for building enterprise-
wide cabling systems. There are three components in a star network: telecom room,
horizontal cabling, and work area. There are basic building blocks for enterprise-
wide structured cabling along with more components, IDF, MDF, backbone cabling,
demark, and entrance facility.
2. What are the detailed length to comply with EIA/TIA-568 wiring standard and Ethernet cable
standard of cable for:
 Maximum length of UTP/STP cable from the telecom room to a workstation?
- 100 meters
 Patch cable from a workstation to a wall outlet?
- Should be limited to 3 meters
 Horizontal cabling run from the outlet in the work area to the patch panel in the
telecom room?
- Should be limited to 90 meters
 From the patch panel to a connectivity device such as a switch/hub?
- No longer than 6 meters
3. Name and describe the subsystem of structured cabling.
 Horizontal Cabling
- Is a cabling that extends from horizontal cross connect or main cross connect to the
work area and ax terminates in telecommunications outlets. Horizontal cabling
includes the following such as cable from the patch panel to the work area
telecommunications outlets, cable terminations, and cross connects in
telecommunications are enclosures.
 Backbone Cabling
- Also called vertical cabling, cross connect cabling, etc. It is necessary to connect
entrance facilities, equipment room, and telecommunication rooms and enclosures
 Work Area
- The users and the telecommunications equipment connect to the structured cabling
infrastructure. The work area begins as a telecommunications area and includes
components such as patch cables modular cords, fiber jumpers, and adapter cables.
 Telecommunication Rooms and Enclosures
- the location within a building where cabling components such as cross connects and
patch panels located.
 Equipment Rooms
- a centralized space specified to house more sophisticated equipment than the
entrance facility of the telecommunications rooms.
 Entrance Facility (Building Entrance)
- Specifies the point in the building where the cabling with the outside world. All
external cabling such as campus backbone, inter-building, and telecommunications
provider should enter the building and terminate in a single point.
4. What is wireless technology? Give examples.
- Refers to technology that allows us to communicate without using cables or wires.
With wireless technology, people and other entities can communicate over very
long distances. Wireless technology includes RF and IR waves. RF stands for radio
frequency and IR stands for infrared

Examples:

 Radio
 Television
 Satellites
 Smartphones
 Local wi-fi
 Cellular networks or Mobile phone networks
5. Give at least five (5) example of mobile radio systems.
- Cordless Phone
- Remote Controller
- Hand-held Walkie-talkies
- Pagers
- Wireless LAN
6. Tell about the following

 Paging Systems
- Conventional paging system send brief messages to a subscriber
- Modern paging system: news headline, stock quotations, faxes, etc.
- Simultaneously broadcast paging message from each base station (simulcasting)
- Large transmission power to cover wide area.
 Cellular Telephone Systems
- Provide connection to the PSTN for any user location within the radio range of the
system.
- Basic cellular system: mobile stations, base stations, and mobile switching center.
- Characteristic: large number of users, large geographic area, limited frequency
spectrum, reuse of the radio frequency by the concept of “cell”.