Structured Cabling, Network Cabling, Data Cabling, Ethernet Cabling
Whatever You Call It, If Your Network Cabling Isn’t CERTIFIED … What Is It?
The Industry’s Leading Cabling Certification Platform
Certified Wire & Cabling is a Full Service Network Cabling Contractor / Fiber Optic Contractor
Providing Cabling Solutions for: Warehouses, Factory Floors, Flex Spaces, and Distribution Centers
Specializing in Structured Cabling Services for the Enterprise Network Infrastructure
Commercial / Industrial Facilities
Inside Plant / Outside Plant
25+ Years Experience
Fast Dependable Service
Competitive Pricing
Free Initial Consultation
A Proven Track Record
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Our Networking Cable is installed to meet and often exceed all industry-recognized performance standards – GUARANTEED
We just don’t say it – We back up our work with printed cabling certification test results
This approach guarantees a worry-free-dependable voice and data cabling solution
Data Closet Optimization: Streamline Network Infrastructure and Cable Management
As organizations grow and adopt new technology, telcom rooms and server rooms undergo significant changes. These spaces can quickly become a tangled mess of network cables and power cords, posing a threat to your network’s performance and reliability. Our expert team is here to help you regain control by transforming your cluttered server room or telcom closet into an organized, efficient nerve center for your company’s digital infrastructure
Network Wiring Closet / Data Closet Clean-up
We offer comprehensive solutions, including building or rebuilding intermediate distribution frames (IDFs) and main distribution frames (MDFs), ensuring your network is optimized for performance, stability, and future growth. With our help, you’ll be well-equipped to adapt to new technologies and changing needs, securing your organization’s success in the fast-paced digital landscape
The Go-To IDF Solution For A Versatile Network Infrastructure
These self-contained enclosures combine sleek design with industrial-grade durability, making them ideal for both warehouse and conference room environments. These units discreetly house critical network components like 48-port panels, POE switches, and UPS systems while optimizing performance. With engineered airflow for effective heat dissipation, they help extend equipment lifespan. For setups that require additional cooling, optional silent fans can be added to maintain optimal operating temperatures without compromising quiet operation
- Dimensions: 32″H x 24.2″W x 10″D
- Weight Capacity: Supports up to 100 lbs of network equipment
- Heat Dissipation: Engineered airflow disapates up to 160 watts of heat
- Silent Operation: Optional fans keep equipment cool without noise
- Durable Construction: Industrial-grade materials for long-term reliability
- Removable Door: Easy access for installation and maintenance
- Scalability: Larger options available for expanded network setups, up to 96 ports of patch panels and Switches available with room for appropriate UPS
The Evolution of the Lowly Demarc Extension
In the early days of network connectivity, businesses often relied on dial-up connections due to cost constraints, with T1 lines becoming the next step forward, offering a modest 1.54 Mbps. Today, those older technologies have been replaced by single-mode fiber, which ISPs now use to deliver exponentially higher speeds and greater capacity to facilities
Despite these advancements, many businesses still don’t fully capitalize on the potential of single-mode fiber within their internal networks. By extending this capacity beyond the demarcation point and into the data center and beyond, you ensure that your network infrastructure is prepared for the increasing data demands and future growth
The Critical Role of Qualified Lift Operators in Industrial Cabling
When it comes to installing structured cabling in factory floors and warehouses, the role of a qualified lift operator cannot be overstated. Proper cable placement often requires working at heights and navigating complex environments, making safety and precision paramount. A qualified lift operator, trained according to OSHA standards, ensures that cabling is installed safely and efficiently, reducing risks of accidents and damage. Beyond safety, the right operator contributes to the seamless integration of cabling solutions that support your network’s reliability and scalability
- Qualified Lift Operators: According to OSHA, only trained and certified personnel should operate lifts to ensure safety and compliance. This expertise is crucial in achieving precise cable placement in challenging industrial environments
- Precision Placement: Utilizing measuring tools with an accuracy of plus or minus 1/8 inch at 300 feet, ensuring optimal positioning of devices. Final placement may vary depending on your existing ceiling layout and available mounting options
- Operational Coordination: Running a lift in an active production environment requires meticulous coordination. Careful planning with facility managers and scheduling work during low-activity periods are essential to minimize disruptions and maintain production flow
- Comprehensive Safety Measures: Safety is our top priority. We adhere to OSHA guidelines by employing safety cones and barriers to clearly mark work zones, using proper fall protection, and ensuring a trained spotter is present to monitor for potential hazards on the floor
From Broom Closets to Data Centers: Designing for Growth
When network infrastructure first began, data closets were exactly that—small, repurposed spaces like coat or broom closets where network equipment was often crammed. IDFs (Intermediate Distribution Frames) were makeshift at best, with hubs casually thrown into ceilings. Fast forward to today, and these modest beginnings have evolved into complex, state-of-the-art data centers
As data centers have evolved from these humble beginnings, the need for scalable, future-proof designs has become paramount. To ensure your data center can accommodate growth without becoming cluttered or inefficient, consider these key practices:
- We always design with the future in mind, ensuring there’s ample room for expansion
- By oversizing your infrastructure, we ensure that today’s investments won’t limit tomorrow’s possibilities
- Our philosophy is to always provide more space than you need today, so you’re ready for tomorrow
Ruggedized Cabling & Connectivity: Protecting Critical Connections in Harsh Environments
In hazardous environments, the stakes are high, and standard cabling simply won’t suffice. Ruggedized cabling is designed to withstand extreme conditions—whether it’s exposure to chemicals, high temperatures, or physical wear and tear. Without it, your network could fail when you need it most, jeopardizing safety and operations
The consequences of not using ruggedized cabling in hazardous environments can be severe. From network outages to compromised safety systems, the risks are simply too great. By investing in durable, high-performance cabling designed for extreme conditions, you ensure that your network remains reliable, protecting both your operations and your workforce
Reduced downtime: Ruggedized solutions minimize the risk of network interruptions caused by cable damage or connector failure
- Enhanced productivity: Uninterrupted network operations help maintain and improve overall productivity in harsh environments
- Certified durability: Ruggedized cabling and connectivity often come with IP ratings and certifications, ensuring resistance to dust, water, extreme temperatures, and other environmental factors
- Extended lifespan: Durable, ruggedized components result in a longer-lasting network infrastructure
- Cost savings: By investing in ruggedized solutions, businesses can lower maintenance and replacement costs over time
What to Look For in a Structured Cabling Contractor
The Benefits of a One-Stop Shop: Simplifying Your Network Infrastructure
Working with a single contractor for your network infrastructure reduces inefficiencies and potential risks. A contractor that handles both copper and fiber offers a cohesive, end-to-end solution, eliminating the complications of managing multiple vendors. This ensures reliability and scalability for your network
Keeping Up with Changing Standards: Why Modern Test Equipment is Essential
Network standards are always evolving. Contractors using outdated test equipment might miss key capabilities, such as PoE testing or new speeds like 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T. Ensure your contractor uses modern tools to certify your network to the latest standards and avoid performance issues down the road
No Substitute for Experience: Meeting Your Needs Today and Tomorrow
Experience is invaluable in network infrastructure. With over 20 years in the industry, we’ve managed projects from small installations to complete plant rewiring. Our expertise allows us to address your current needs while anticipating future growth, ensuring your network remains scalable and reliable
Built on Trust: Long-Term Partnerships and Proven Results
Trust is everything in this industry. We’ve built lasting relationships with major employers, some of whom have trusted us for over a decade. Our reputation is grounded in delivering quality and reliability consistently. Feel free to ask for references—we’re happy to connect you with satisfied clients
Why Structured Cabling (Layer One – The Physical Layer)
Simply put, structured cabling is a cabling infrastructure that provides an organized, standardized approach to a computer network that enables predictable performance as well as the flexibility to accommodate moves, adds, and changes, maximize system availability and useability of the cabling system
The On-premises wiring or physical media consisting of fiber optic cable, category copper cable, Wifi antennas, wireless access points, and network switches are the backbone for all the data that runs on the local area network
ANSI/TIA-568 (Commercial Building Telecommunications Wiring Standards) Defines a standard for building cable systems for commercial buildings that support voice, data, and power over ethernet. It also defines the technical and performance criteria for Network wiring
The structured cabling concept has become so successful that other non-IT applications, such as Building Automation and Access Control have also incorporated the same concept to ensure that endpoint devices can be modified without having to change out the entire cable plant
What Is Network Cable Certification And Does It Matter?
A single network cable may have to support multiple applications, power and data on the same media.
Quality connectors and cable will provide their advertised performance when properly installed in laboratory environments, but installation in the field is very different to installation in a laboratory
In the field, the cable can be stretched, kinked, crushed, installed in hot areas, exposed to water, and terminated with poor workmanship. Therefore, to ensure that the individual quality components form a completed, quality cabling system, installers need to test the performance of that cabling in the field
Certification is the most rigorous of all cable testing. A certification tester makes many types of measurements across predefined frequency ranges and compares the detailed results to standards set by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and also provides test results
Certification answers the question, “Does this cable installation comply with network cabling performance standards and will it support the intended applications”
Consider the pitfalls of uncertified cabling. Consider the trade-off between testing and “hoping for the best.” Hope is rarely a good strategy, and in an ever-changing economy, it is a dangerous one especially if you are referring to mission-critical infrastructure
Why Follow the ANSI/TIA-606-C Labeling Standard?
Labeling is a key factor in the installation and maintenance of an efficient and professional installation. Believe it or not, some installations have little or no labeling.
The ability to manage an installed cabling system relies heavily on the extent to which that system is documented. Ultimately, properly labeled networks benefit everyone — installers and contractors, IT technicians, and alike. It also makes it easier to identify and trace cables quickly when problems occur or when a move, add, or change is required.
All labels should be printed or generated with a mechanical device. Sharpies aren’t standard-compliant
Are Your Racks and Equipment Properly Grounded and Bonded?
GROUNDING AND BONDING FOR TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ANSI/TIA/EIA-607
Electricity always travels on the path of least resistance. Proper grounding provides this path, carrying the surge away from your equipment via a high-capacity wire (#6 AWG or better) through a series of low-resistance links and bus bars down to the source (usually Earth/Ground). Any metallic equipment that is part of your infrastructure must be properly connected to the grounding and bonding system. Technically, grounding and bonding mean different things. Grounding is a process meant to protect people against a possible fault in the electrical system. Bonding electrically ties all specified metallic elements together to minimize the differences in voltage
Grounding and bonding can do more than just protect personnel from electric shock and electrocution. When done properly and intentionally, it can also optimize network performance and protect your network equipment
Electronic circuit board damage can occur with as little as 19-volt potential difference, Whereas the static electric shock that you feel, hear, or see is up towards 2900 volts. That means you could be damaging the network devices and not even realizing it
Firestopping: When Necessary, a Must in Any Cabling Installation
Firestops are physical barriers designed to prevent the spread of flames, deadly gases, and toxic smoke through openings created in fire-rated components during the installation of communications cabling
The penetration of fire-rated walls and floors is often necessary to accommodate data cables, All penetration should be sealed and have the same fire rating as originally intended. Fire-rated walls will be unable to provide protection against the spread of smoke and heat if there are unsealed penetrations. Fire or smoke will be able to spread through an open penetration, which will result in more extensive damage to property and in particular damage to vulnerable goods or, in the worst-case scenario, a total loss of the entire building
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