Voice Data Cabling Services in Austin


Business Communication Solutions specializes in the design and installation of voice and data cabling networks. Our goal is to provide our clients with excellent, affordable service they can rely on. Give us a call, let us help you save!
Cabling is the core of any telephone and computing systems within your office. Voice and data cabling encompasses Internet access, computers, VoIP telephone systems, voice mail, and other aspects of your communications and computing systems. Please call us to assist you in designing, implementing, and deploying a cabling system that meets your needs.

Category Data Cabling integrated with Fiber Optic cables and UTP Network cables connected hub ports.

Types of Voice-Data Cables We Typically Installs

CAT3 Cable– The levels of data categorize cabling systems they can sustain. Category 3, called Cat-3, is an unshielded twisted pair (UTP). Cat 3 traditionally has been used for telephones such as analog, electronic, or digital telephone systems. It is slowly being phased out, although we still have requests to work on these occasionally.

CAT5 Cable– Category 5 (Cat-5) cable is also a twisted pair cable for carrying signals. Cat-5 is used in structured cabling for networks like Ethernet, telephony, and video. Cat 5 is an older version of data cables. Due to the demand for Gigabit data speed, we also see Cat 5 data cables being phased out.

CAT5e Cable– Short for Category 5 Enhanced, Cat-5e network cabling is used as a cabling infrastructure for 10BASE-T (Ethernet), full duplex 100BASE-TX (Fast Ethernet) and 1000BASE-T (Gigabit Ethernet, or GbE) networks. Cat 5e is a happy medium between pricing and speed. Cat 5e can run gigabit and save money over Cat 6 data cables.

CAT6 Cable– Short for Category 6, Cat-6 network cabling is used as the cabling infrastructure for 10BASE-T (Ethernet), 100BASE-TX (Fast Ethernet), 1000BASE-T (Gigabit Ethernet, or GbE) and 10GBASE-T (10-Gigabit Ethernet, or 10 GbE) networks. Cat 6 is the most common data cable used today because of its standard Gigabit speed.

CAT6A Cable– It can support speeds of up to 10Gbps and frequencies of up to 500 Mhz. It is increasingly more popular as a tie cable between suites or buildings that are less than 100 Meters and a much lower cost to fiber if the distance is relatively short.

CAT6E Cable– Can support speeds of up to 10Gbps and frequencies of up to 600 Mhz. It is increasingly more popular as a tie cable between suites or buildings that are less than 100 Meters and much lower cost to fiber if the distance is pretty short.

COAXIAL Cable– Coaxial cabling is the primary type of cabling used by the cable television industry and is also widely used for computer networks, such as Ethernet.  In old buildings that has lots of Coaxial cable, we have seen media converter (from coaxial to ethernet) deploy to setup networks.  This scenario typically use when new cables are hard to run due to design of buildings and or business trying to preserve a historical landmark.   

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Cheap and straightforward vs complex and expensive

Voice and Data cabling can be very simple or very complicated. Depending on what your business requires and how much data you transfer, it will depend on how simple, complex, and expensive it can get.

For example, a restaurant with two chefs and one cash register will likely not require much. They will probably have computers, phones, faxes, printers, and a wireless access point for their guests. This job will be less than a day job in most cases, with very minimum material. Depending on budget, we may run some CAT 5e cables and terminate using male RJ 45 connectors; it can then plug directly into the network devices (phones, printers, routers, network switches, cameras, etc.

On the other hand, let’s say you have a big engineering firm that has 100 employees. Each of these engineers needs to collaborate and have the ability to edit large auto-cad drawings between the servers and their PCs. You will not get away with a Cat 5 or even a Cat 5e data cable. They will most likely all require Cat 6 data and above. Each station may require two or even 4 data cables (1 for phones, 1 for printers, and 2 for DATA. Did I hear someone ask why one engineer needs 2 data ports? Well, I can think of a few reasons. Reason 1 is that you can have double the speed. Keep in mind that there are limitations here. There are a few prerequisites: The PC, network switches, servers, network card, processor, and data cables can support the speed. All these devices must also support bonding (aka link aggregation).

With 100 employees that require 4 data cables each, that’s a minimum of 400 data cables, not including IoT (internet of things), printers, faxes, TV, Conference rooms, credit card machines, wireless access points, etc. As you can imagine, this will require more real estate for all the data cables and a way to manage it. Most likely, these cables are longer data cable runs, too, which will require more labor to install.
It doesn’t matter if you have a small office that needs some cable run or an engineering firm that needs lots of data cables installed; give us a call. Let us help you with your data cabling needs so you can focus on what’s more important to you.

Structured DATA Cabling Installation and services in Austin

We help small business in Austin and surrounding cities.

Business Communication Solutions offers Structed Data Cabling in Austin. We carries a variety brands of patch panel, inserts, jacks cables to accomodates different customer needs. From different color jacks to different color face plate. We carry different category cables (Cat 3, cat 5, Cat 5e, Cat 6, Cat 6a, to Cat 6e. Probably too much to lists. If you want to see more of what we carry, click this link below for a very detail lists of what we carry for Structured Data Cablings.

Structured Data Cabling Products

Allworx phone install with data port activated for phones and PC.

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This was a job in Austin where we ran some burial underground data/fiber cable to tie 2 buildings together.

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Data Cabling – FAQ

What is the difference between Cat 3, Cat 5, Cat 5e, Cat 6, and Cat 6a cables?

Cat 3 was used a while back for mostly analog, digital phones, and token ring (10Mbps) network. In the 1990’s 10 Mbps was a lot of speed. Cat 3 is pretty much obsolete now. You still see it in telephone room, d’marc room, some business with analog and digital phone, but mostly abandoned. Cat 5 is the replacement of Cat 3. Cat 5 runs at 100 Mbps, in my opinion is also obsolete, as you it’s hard to find. Cat 5e and Cat6 is the most popular data cables right now. Cat 6 performance is better than Cat 5e, it just cost a little bit more. Depending on your need, Cat 5e suffice. Example, if you just need to run some data cable for a PoE camera, Cat 5e can save you some money, as most camera does not use that much bandwidth. A 4k Camera at 30 FPS use needs roughly 10 Mbps, cat 5e is rated at 1000Mbps. As you can see, there is really not a need for Cat 6 Cable on a single security camera.

I got some quote from different vendor, the the cable prices ranges so much? Why is that?

Cables comes in many different flavors. CMR (PVC) or Plenum. Plenum in short, cost more. Some buildings, require plenum cable, otherwise, it is consider not up to code (NEC code 300.22). Some cables are copper clad Aluminum which is cheaper and the performance is also subpar. If you are needing Data cable, we recommend sticking to solid copper cable.

We have one ethernet jack that doesn’t work, can you help us troubleshoot and fix?

We get this question often. Yes, we can. Just give us a call.



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