1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:02,490 Let's talk about wiring a network. 2 00:00:02,490 --> 00:00:04,470 So we talked about cable distribution, 3 00:00:04,470 --> 00:00:06,360 and I mentioned things like patch panels 4 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:07,710 and how you're going to connect your switches 5 00:00:07,710 --> 00:00:09,870 and your routers through the patch panels, 6 00:00:09,870 --> 00:00:12,240 and that's going to connect back into your offices 7 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:14,040 into that network wall jack. 8 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:15,600 In this lesson, I'm going to show you 9 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:17,160 how we wire up those devices 10 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:18,930 and give you a hands-on look at them. 11 00:00:18,930 --> 00:00:19,950 Now you look at a patch panel, 12 00:00:19,950 --> 00:00:21,420 there are many different kinds of them. 13 00:00:21,420 --> 00:00:24,120 You'll notice that it has six different patch panel jacks, 14 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,480 room to write down what it's being connected to above it. 15 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:29,730 And if I flip this over to the other side, 16 00:00:29,730 --> 00:00:33,030 you'll see that it has what looks like a 110 block 17 00:00:33,030 --> 00:00:34,710 where you can punch down the cables 18 00:00:34,710 --> 00:00:36,300 onto the back of these jacks. 19 00:00:36,300 --> 00:00:40,200 And each of these, this is one, two, three, four, five 20 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,330 and six, that gives us the six jacks 21 00:00:42,330 --> 00:00:43,440 that we see on the front. 22 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:45,030 And it even shows you a nice little diagram 23 00:00:45,030 --> 00:00:47,610 of how you should be punching them down. 24 00:00:47,610 --> 00:00:49,920 Now, this is a very small patch panel. 25 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:53,790 In fact, the one I'm holding my hand is only 12 big. 26 00:00:53,790 --> 00:00:55,200 So it has six here. 27 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:57,060 And when I roll this all the way over, 28 00:00:57,060 --> 00:00:58,770 you could see the other six. 29 00:00:58,770 --> 00:01:01,680 Now, you'll also notice they have mount holes here 30 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:04,440 because this is used inside server racks. 31 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:06,570 This allows me to mount this into the server rack, 32 00:01:06,570 --> 00:01:08,490 as I'll show you at the end of this video, 33 00:01:08,490 --> 00:01:12,150 as it'll give you a nice clean, clear installation. 34 00:01:12,150 --> 00:01:13,920 Now if you work in a small office 35 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:15,540 or a home office environment, 36 00:01:15,540 --> 00:01:17,730 you may not even be using something like this, 37 00:01:17,730 --> 00:01:20,820 but instead, you might be using something like this. 38 00:01:20,820 --> 00:01:23,757 And so as you can see here, both the punch down 39 00:01:23,757 --> 00:01:26,940 and the patch jack are both located on the front. 40 00:01:26,940 --> 00:01:29,130 Now, either is going to be the exact same thing. 41 00:01:29,130 --> 00:01:31,260 We have what looks like a punch down block, 42 00:01:31,260 --> 00:01:32,550 again, a 110 spacing 43 00:01:32,550 --> 00:01:34,740 because we're using five or above networks. 44 00:01:34,740 --> 00:01:36,720 And a network jack, that's RJ45 45 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:38,430 for you to plug in a patch cable. 46 00:01:38,430 --> 00:01:41,430 So what will happen is the network jack from your office 47 00:01:41,430 --> 00:01:45,510 goes through the walls, comes in and gets punched down here. 48 00:01:45,510 --> 00:01:47,850 Then whatever is plugged in here, 49 00:01:47,850 --> 00:01:49,830 then gets patched into your switch. 50 00:01:49,830 --> 00:01:52,050 And I'm going to show you all of this in my rack 51 00:01:52,050 --> 00:01:53,400 in my server closet 52 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,830 after we're done showing you how to do this punch down. 53 00:01:55,830 --> 00:01:57,750 So let's go ahead and do a punch down. 54 00:01:57,750 --> 00:01:59,430 I'm going to use this smaller block 55 00:01:59,430 --> 00:02:01,470 because it's a lot easier to film here, 56 00:02:01,470 --> 00:02:03,360 right here in this little workspace that we're using. 57 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,280 So I'm just going to push this down over here 58 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:07,890 and kind of go like this so hopefully you can see it better. 59 00:02:07,890 --> 00:02:10,590 And I'm going to punch down here on port number eight. 60 00:02:10,590 --> 00:02:13,650 You'll see that there are the eight punch down blocks 61 00:02:13,650 --> 00:02:15,840 and then the place for us to plug that jack in. 62 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,690 Now before I do that, I have to get some cable. 63 00:02:18,690 --> 00:02:20,490 So I'm going to go to my bulk cable. 64 00:02:20,490 --> 00:02:22,230 I'm going to pull off a bunch of it 65 00:02:22,230 --> 00:02:26,550 and I'm going to cut it with my crimpers and gimme some cable. 66 00:02:26,550 --> 00:02:29,070 And now I'm going to go in here and I'm going to strip this wire. 67 00:02:29,070 --> 00:02:31,860 So I'm just going to go right around with my wire stripper, 68 00:02:31,860 --> 00:02:33,600 take off that outer jacket, 69 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,410 and then I'm going to separate out those wires individually. 70 00:02:37,410 --> 00:02:38,610 And the nice thing about doing it 71 00:02:38,610 --> 00:02:40,260 on a punch down block like this, 72 00:02:40,260 --> 00:02:42,090 is I can use a lot of excess wire 73 00:02:42,090 --> 00:02:44,730 because my punch will remove the rest. 74 00:02:44,730 --> 00:02:45,690 Now, I'm going to go through 75 00:02:45,690 --> 00:02:47,160 and I'm going to straighten these out. 76 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:48,810 I'll be right back. 77 00:02:48,810 --> 00:02:50,550 So I'm back here and what I've done 78 00:02:50,550 --> 00:02:52,440 is I've straightened out those wires 79 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:53,820 and so they're ready to go. 80 00:02:53,820 --> 00:02:55,290 I also have my punch down tool, 81 00:02:55,290 --> 00:02:57,840 which is also conveniently part of my stripper. 82 00:02:57,840 --> 00:02:59,100 And it's right here at the end. 83 00:02:59,100 --> 00:03:01,230 You'll see this nice little sharp place. 84 00:03:01,230 --> 00:03:04,290 And so what's going to end up happening is as I go here, 85 00:03:04,290 --> 00:03:07,050 I'll go through and punch down my wire. 86 00:03:07,050 --> 00:03:11,160 So I'm just going to come over and pull the first wire over it 87 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,500 and all you have to do to punch it down is simply insert it 88 00:03:17,220 --> 00:03:18,093 and push down. 89 00:03:19,830 --> 00:03:21,540 It's that easy. And now it's in. 90 00:03:21,540 --> 00:03:22,890 And then I'll go through the next one 91 00:03:22,890 --> 00:03:25,650 and I'll just continue to match up my color codes, 92 00:03:25,650 --> 00:03:27,480 punching them down as I go. 93 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,390 Now I do have a pneumatic one as well, 94 00:03:30,390 --> 00:03:32,460 which uses a little bit more pressure. 95 00:03:32,460 --> 00:03:34,140 And with the pneumatic one, 96 00:03:34,140 --> 00:03:36,720 it will cut off those ends for me automatically. 97 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:38,520 This one does not, so I'll have to go back 98 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,040 and trim these ends off afterwards. 99 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,080 But you get the idea here as you go through 100 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,713 and you punch down according to the proper color code. 101 00:03:49,590 --> 00:03:52,680 And we'll just fix a second there as you go through. 102 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:54,570 And we just continue to go through 103 00:03:54,570 --> 00:03:57,390 and punch them down in the appropriate colors. 104 00:03:57,390 --> 00:04:00,630 So you get the idea here as we're going to move on. 105 00:04:00,630 --> 00:04:02,700 So that's the way you do things with a punch down block. 106 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:03,810 Now on the other end, 107 00:04:03,810 --> 00:04:05,850 you need it to be on your wall jack, right? 108 00:04:05,850 --> 00:04:07,710 Well, how do you do that? 109 00:04:07,710 --> 00:04:10,230 Well, you can go to the store and you can buy a wall jack. 110 00:04:10,230 --> 00:04:11,820 So for instance, here is one, 111 00:04:11,820 --> 00:04:16,019 it's a 110-Type Ivory Keystone wall jack, CAT 5e. 112 00:04:16,019 --> 00:04:17,250 Now once you open up the package, 113 00:04:17,250 --> 00:04:18,209 you're going to have three things. 114 00:04:18,209 --> 00:04:20,760 One is the actual card that came with the package itself. 115 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,550 This tells me my wiring diagram in case you forgot it, 116 00:04:23,550 --> 00:04:27,630 the T568A and the T568B. 117 00:04:27,630 --> 00:04:29,460 On the other side of this, you're also going to have 118 00:04:29,460 --> 00:04:31,260 how it should look when you're done. 119 00:04:31,260 --> 00:04:34,830 And I'll show you this here, just like that. 120 00:04:34,830 --> 00:04:36,690 And you're going to have the keystone itself, 121 00:04:36,690 --> 00:04:38,400 which is where you're going to wire it in. 122 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,550 And it tells you A and B right here on the side 123 00:04:41,550 --> 00:04:42,780 with the right color. 124 00:04:42,780 --> 00:04:46,770 So if we're doing A, the first pin is going to be green/white, 125 00:04:46,770 --> 00:04:50,250 two is going to be green, three is going to be orange/white, 126 00:04:50,250 --> 00:04:52,080 and six is going to be orange. 127 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,870 If we're doing B, we're going to flop those around. 128 00:04:54,870 --> 00:04:56,160 On the other side, you're going to see 129 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,100 that four, five, eight and seven are always going to be 130 00:04:59,100 --> 00:05:02,910 the same colors, blue, blue/white, brown and brown/white. 131 00:05:02,910 --> 00:05:03,743 And what we're going to do 132 00:05:03,743 --> 00:05:05,880 is do the same exact punch down technique we just did. 133 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,790 And then we're going to cover it off with this little cap. 134 00:05:08,790 --> 00:05:12,690 So if I grab that cable, and I'm going to go ahead and grab it. 135 00:05:12,690 --> 00:05:14,220 And let's see, we're going to start out here 136 00:05:14,220 --> 00:05:16,440 with the brown/white on seven. 137 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,020 So I'll grab my brown/white cable 138 00:05:19,020 --> 00:05:20,850 and I'm going to bring it in here. 139 00:05:20,850 --> 00:05:24,783 I'm going to take my punch down tool and I'm going to punch it. 140 00:05:26,310 --> 00:05:27,143 There we go. 141 00:05:27,143 --> 00:05:29,910 And then I'm going to do the same thing with brown, 142 00:05:29,910 --> 00:05:33,810 and continue to do that all the way across for all of those. 143 00:05:33,810 --> 00:05:35,730 Okay, so I finished wiring this one up, 144 00:05:35,730 --> 00:05:38,040 and as you can see, we have the extra excess wires 145 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,490 hanging out on both sides and it just comes in like that. 146 00:05:41,490 --> 00:05:45,630 And we would then just close this up just like that. 147 00:05:45,630 --> 00:05:48,360 And we'd want to cut off all this excess wire. 148 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,270 The tool I'm using, this is a very inexpensive 149 00:05:51,270 --> 00:05:52,320 punch down tool. 150 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:53,190 If you have a much better one, 151 00:05:53,190 --> 00:05:55,470 it'll actually cut the wires as you're going. 152 00:05:55,470 --> 00:05:56,610 Now, once you have this keystone, 153 00:05:56,610 --> 00:05:57,660 what do you do do with it? 154 00:05:57,660 --> 00:05:59,070 Well, you want it to look like a wall jack. 155 00:05:59,070 --> 00:06:00,960 And so that's when we buy something like this, 156 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:02,910 which again cost me a dollar. 157 00:06:02,910 --> 00:06:04,080 And so then you're going to take 158 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:05,910 the wall jack and the keystone. 159 00:06:05,910 --> 00:06:07,680 And the keystone simply goes into it, 160 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,590 and you can see that there's this little hole here 161 00:06:10,590 --> 00:06:13,500 and we just put it in place, squeeze it together. 162 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:16,590 And now you have a network wall jack for your office 163 00:06:16,590 --> 00:06:18,240 that looks nice and professional. 164 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:19,920 And again, you can make sure the colors all match. 165 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,380 So you have ivory and ivory or white and white. 166 00:06:22,380 --> 00:06:23,280 But again, this was just something 167 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:24,720 I was doing for a demonstration. 168 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:26,970 So now that I showed you the basics, let's go see 169 00:06:26,970 --> 00:06:30,390 what the final product really looks like in the real world. 170 00:06:30,390 --> 00:06:33,240 So I'm going to take you over into my server room 171 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:35,130 and we're going to take a look at one of our mini racks 172 00:06:35,130 --> 00:06:37,080 and you'll see that we have a patch panel there, 173 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,030 and you'll see how everything is wired up nicely 174 00:06:39,030 --> 00:06:40,740 and how we have everything cabled away. 175 00:06:40,740 --> 00:06:42,600 And that's what you want your end product to look like. 176 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:44,310 You want it to be nice and open, 177 00:06:44,310 --> 00:06:45,720 have all the cables out of the way, 178 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:47,460 so good airflow can happen 179 00:06:47,460 --> 00:06:49,020 and you can always have everything labeled 180 00:06:49,020 --> 00:06:50,430 and know where things are going. 181 00:06:50,430 --> 00:06:51,480 Let's go take a look. 182 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,480 So here you can see a small office rack. 183 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,340 And again, this is a very small office rack 184 00:06:56,340 --> 00:06:59,250 because we're only supporting up to 24 wall jacks. 185 00:06:59,250 --> 00:07:02,010 Up here at the top, you're going to see that we have a switch 186 00:07:02,010 --> 00:07:03,270 and we have a patch panel. 187 00:07:03,270 --> 00:07:05,400 Now what you can see here on the left side, 188 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:06,780 is that they are rack mounted 189 00:07:06,780 --> 00:07:08,670 and so they are screwed into the rack. 190 00:07:08,670 --> 00:07:10,500 Up here at the top is a patch panel, 191 00:07:10,500 --> 00:07:13,020 and I'm using these small six-inch cables 192 00:07:13,020 --> 00:07:15,810 going from the port that is going to the jack 193 00:07:15,810 --> 00:07:18,390 in this person's office or this other person's office. 194 00:07:18,390 --> 00:07:20,850 We have all of these 24 ports across the top, 195 00:07:20,850 --> 00:07:22,560 and then we have a 24-port switch. 196 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,230 And so we just have it cabled up from port one 197 00:07:25,230 --> 00:07:28,560 to switch port one, switch port two to port two, 198 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:29,910 and that will go through. 199 00:07:29,910 --> 00:07:32,370 Above this, you can't see it because of the cable, 200 00:07:32,370 --> 00:07:35,070 but it is labeled and it says, "This is Jason's office," 201 00:07:35,070 --> 00:07:36,630 or, "This is Tamara's office," 202 00:07:36,630 --> 00:07:38,430 or whoever's computer it's going to. 203 00:07:38,430 --> 00:07:40,290 Now, why would we want to use a patch panel 204 00:07:40,290 --> 00:07:42,780 as opposed to plugging directly into the switch? 205 00:07:42,780 --> 00:07:46,320 Now in our situation, we don't move offices very often, 206 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:47,910 and so there's really no reason. 207 00:07:47,910 --> 00:07:49,710 We just did it because we like to. 208 00:07:49,710 --> 00:07:51,570 In a real office though, a lot of times 209 00:07:51,570 --> 00:07:54,030 people and equipment move all the time. 210 00:07:54,030 --> 00:07:56,370 And if you're going to be plugging and unplugging people 211 00:07:56,370 --> 00:07:58,770 to different switch ports and moving them around, 212 00:07:58,770 --> 00:08:01,320 you can actually break the switch ports. 213 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:02,970 And you can't really replace 214 00:08:02,970 --> 00:08:04,740 these switch ports when they break. 215 00:08:04,740 --> 00:08:06,270 They're already inside this switch, 216 00:08:06,270 --> 00:08:09,780 and so I'm going to have to replace this 500 or $1,000 switch 217 00:08:09,780 --> 00:08:11,700 if one of these ports breaks. 218 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:14,910 This patch panel on the other hand, costs about $50. 219 00:08:14,910 --> 00:08:18,210 And so if it breaks, I can simply switch out 220 00:08:18,210 --> 00:08:20,250 to a new patch panel very quickly 221 00:08:20,250 --> 00:08:22,050 and get the whole office back up and running. 222 00:08:22,050 --> 00:08:25,020 So it's just a matter of keeping your cost down 223 00:08:25,020 --> 00:08:26,880 and giving you the flexibility you need 224 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,400 to be able to move things around whenever you need to. 225 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,059 Proper wiring is always going to say you go from a switch 226 00:08:33,059 --> 00:08:35,850 to a patch panel and from the back of that patch panel, 227 00:08:35,850 --> 00:08:38,970 it's punched down and that goes to the back of a keystone 228 00:08:38,970 --> 00:08:40,289 which becomes a wall jack, 229 00:08:40,289 --> 00:08:42,539 just like I showed you inside this lesson. 230 00:08:42,539 --> 00:08:44,460 I hope you've enjoyed this behind-the-scenes look 231 00:08:44,460 --> 00:08:46,830 at how these patch panels and wall jacks 232 00:08:46,830 --> 00:08:49,950 and cable distributions are run inside a small office 233 00:08:49,950 --> 00:08:51,750 or a home office environment. 234 00:08:51,750 --> 00:08:53,580 Now again, you've been introduced to both kinds 235 00:08:53,580 --> 00:08:55,620 of patch panels, the front facing ones 236 00:08:55,620 --> 00:08:57,990 and the little single pieces that we showed you, 237 00:08:57,990 --> 00:09:00,360 as well as one of the rack-mounted patch panels 238 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,460 as you saw in my own network. 239 00:09:02,460 --> 00:09:03,600 I hope you've enjoyed this 240 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,333 and I'll see you in the next lesson.