with Centralized distribution for HD TV, Apple TV, analog and VOIP telephones, Vuduu Box, DVD changers, Direct TV, etc...
The picture above is of the room where we centralized the main home theater components and the patch panel that ties everything back into each room. The first thing we did is determine a location for the Salamander Designs cabinet/19" rack.
The reason we requested the 19" rack collars was to mount a typical Leviton 24-Port Patch panel onto the cabinet.
The Patch cables coming from the Leviton 24-Port Patch Panel get connected to the Audio Authority HDTV Switcher.
We had to completely dissect the home network which included the following technology that we had to either clean up, configure, or contend with:
(2) Direct TV HD DVRs
(1) Linksys 600N Wireless Router
(1) Linksys 350N Wireless Router
(1) Vuduu Video Receiver
(1) Apple TV
(1) 50 CD Sony Discman CD Player
(1) Pioneer HDTV Plasma
(1) Sony 42" HDTV Flat Front CRT
(1) Checkpoint Firewall
(1) VOIP Phone working through VPN and encryption
(1) Linksys 24-Port 10/100 Ethernet Switch
(1) Sony Location Free TV
(2) AT&T analog telephone lines
Various other Home Theater equipment for Audio Video (Tuner, etc...)
Fiber going to every room
All this was tied in to the back end in the basement where we had to rewire and then relocate it to the room where the cabinet would be located. The wiring situation was a mess. Everything was hanging out of a structured wiring cabinet, nothing was labeled, and there was not TIA 568B standardization on the wiring color codes at all. I ended up standardizing every single connection to the TIA 568B standard. This made any problems with connection easy to fix (within 5 minutes.)
This was ugly, but at least there was
no black tape.
The picture above is of the old 19" rack that was used to centralize everything with one standard CAT5 connection (but no support for HD TV.)
The panel was a mess, not standardized, and even included a bit of electrical wire for telephone lines.
We started with a new location when we brought the new wire in.
Connections were made cleanly with the proper tools. We abide by standards so we used the TIA 568B standard.
As you can see the almost finished panel looks much better (but not completed.)
