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Why is an organized, structured cabling system important for your business?

The free and reliable flow of information and communication is a vital part of your business or organization. As businesses rely more and more on technology, they require sufficient bandwidth, efficient frameworks, and the ability to be flexibly and reliably managed. The telecommunications and data cabling infrastructure that is built into your business from the start dictates how easily your systems can react to problems and scale up to meet growing business needs. A structured cabling approach provides a highly organized, optimized and easily recognizable system for smooth sailing as your company adapts and expands. 

What is structured cabling?

Structured cabling is a standardized organizational system for commercial telecommunications and data infrastructure. The goal of structured cabling is to bring organization to the many ways your business systems and communications are hard wired together while adding redundancy, accessibility and enhanced data security. An organized system uses standardized architecture that is easy to repair and expand over time. To ensure your business has the most reliable network that can be added to easily and looks professional, you want an expert-installed structured cabling system. Professionals will work with your existing cabling and enhance it to exceed your current businesses needs and be better prepared for the future.

Why is structured cabling important for your business?

You want your business to run and grow smoothly so you want to make sure your telecommunication and data connection systems are designed to be reliable, conveniently fixed, and easily added to over time. Wireless telecommunication may seem convenient, but cabled transmission systems will better protect your business from information security threats., Cable management can be a challenge for any business to handle itself, but a robust and well thought out structured cabling system installed by professionals will improve the performance, reliability, and appearance of your business by cleaning up the messy wiring systems that might be in place today. 

How does structured cabling optimize for business growth?

Many businesses start out with a poorly organized and unmanaged cabling infrastructure that might work when the company is small but as the business grows and components get added, problems will become increasingly difficult to fix, and expansion an even bigger challenge. If there isn’t a good organizational system in place at the beginning, a small issue could lead to a lot of system downtime as you may need to sort through mountains of cables to find the right one. If you are planning on growing your business or just upgrading to more efficient technology in the future, now is a good time to set up the telecommunication infrastructure and data that will grow with you. 

How does structured cabling improve system reliability?

Imagine one day having a failure in an aspect of your business's information management system and because you took the time to get a structured cabling system installed you are able to quickly and easily find the exact component that has an issue and fix the problem. Alternatively, imagine you never put professionally organized systems in place and now have to worry about communicating with your customers, suppliers and partners while you sort through piles of messy cables looking for the issue. An updated infrastructure for your data connection systems allows for reliable and smooth flow of communication and information that protects you from possible future headaches. 

Benefits of using a structured cabling approach?

There are many benefits associated with using structured cabling in your business. One of the advantages of installing a structured cabling system is that it’s a one-time investment that will benefit your business for years to come. The standardized approach reduces risk for human error and therefore decreases potential for downtime in your systems. The built-in architecture of a structured cabling system is more straightforward and easier to follow and of course it’s always good to look more professional! 

Your system will be able to accommodate more information and communication flows, and there will be redundancy within the network that also enhances your information security. In the case of needing to repair a component or cord within your cabling system, if you have an effective structured cabling system you will be able to do these repairs quickly and easily as things will be very organized, easily recognizable and reachable. 

Find a professional service to help with your cabling upgrade

If you think your business could benefit from improved telecommunication and information flows, and greater reliability, now is a great time to contact the professionals who are ready to help you upgrade to a structured cabling infrastructure.  At SECURITEL we are here to help as experts in all aspects of structured cabling as well as a variety of other business services. As a professional security and communications company, we are prepared with the state of the art tools to tackle your unique business needs.