What is a Connected Home?

Most homes have only conventional wiring. But modern technology demands a structured wiring system to provide the electronic foundation necessary to ensure that your family can be connected to today's services and be prepared for the new technologies of tomorrow.

The demands placed on wiring are greater now than ever before as lifestyle and home designs evolve. More people want to network computers, access the Internet, watch satellite TV, automate their home, protect it with a security system and enjoy audio throughout the entire house. Traditional wiring delivers the bare minimum of electrical service, making some of these activities difficult, slow or even impossible.  A connected, or networked home, is a home that is connected with a structured wiring system which allows you to maximize your quality of life, experience the best technology has to offer, and fully enjoy your home.

There is a big difference in wiring. To illustrate, think of the wiring in your home as a pipeline for information. Conventional wiring has the data capacity of a squirt gun. By comparison, structured wiring, using CAT5 cables, has the capacity of a fire hose. Structured wiring transmits more information, faster is more advanced, and can handle sophisticated video and data signals from computers, digital satellite, high-speed internet, digital phones and digital TV's. 

A Quicklink wiring system, creates a local area network (LAN) throughout your entire house, tucked neatly into the framing of your new home. Which brings multiple telephone jacks, cable hookups and standard outlets to each and every room in your home.

For the first time, you will be able to take full advantage of intelligent appliances, the Internet, and Interactive entertainment, security, and home-automation systems.

• Plug in your laptop computer and access the Internet with high-speed telecommunications and cable lines from any room in the house.
• Network all your home computers and peripherals by plugging into a home Ethernet.
  Watch a video playing from the VCR on any television in the house.
• Distribute satellite televisions and cable signals throughout the house without degradation or fading.
• Enhance the capability of your security system with distributed video.
• Tune into "baby cam" to check in on the kids from any television.
• Place furniture where you want it, not where the lone cable or telephone outlet dictates it must go.
• Access home automation technologies with industry-standard wiring network.