Structured Wiring/IntercomLiberty Bell has been the low voltage leader in the new home construction market for the last 20 years and will continue to be on the cutting edge of technology in order to provide the most up to date and accurate Structured Wiring solutions.
Thank God for the Structured method. One of the main features of this is having a central location and having all of the cables from the outlets go back to the central location. This is commonly called a Home Run configuration. Typically one outlet plate is used for all of the wiring types - phone, video, network or whatever. And the wires are typically run in bundles containing ALL the types of wiring. No splices are used. The advantages of structured wiring are:
Another feature key to structured wiring is the choice of wiring types. The use of high quality cabling is stressed here. For video this means a high quality RG6/U Quad Shielded cable is typically used instead of the older RG59. The RG6 Quad Shield has less signal loss especially at the higher frequencies used for DSS (satellite) and is less susceptible to interference. For the data network this means a high quality CAT5 or CAT5e. For the phone this means the same CAT5 cable used for data instead of the older 4 conductor phone cable resulting in less noise and interference pickup and the capacity for 4 phone lines instead of 2 . The idea here is to use the most advanced cabling you can afford. You may not need all the capabilities these advanced cables provide today but with home networking and entertainment evolving so quickly you may find them quite useful sooner than you think. OnQ Selective Call Intercom System
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Remember the "Daisy Chained"
method of wiring?, if you can go as far as calling it a method. Cables
would be run from one outlet or jack to the next and then on to the
next and so forth. Splices were often used in the telephone wiring.
CATV splitters would be stuck away deep inside walls or in attics
somewhere. Little attention was paid to good wiring techniques. As
long as the wires were touching, every thing would be ok. The signal
quality and strength at the end of the chain would be seriously degraded
and inconsistent. If one of the connections were to fail, all of the
devices connected further on down the chain would fail as well. With
this method the phone lines follow different paths through the home
as the video which are different again from the network. And each
of the wiring types usually has it's own separate outlet plate. The
wiring paths and the location of splices and splitters was rarely
documented. Adding to or troubleshooting or documenting this mess
was nearly impossible. 
