I spent some time last weekend cleaning up the cabling mess for our telephones and dialup server, now it’s not such a disaster.  I ran all the telephone/modem connections to a 66 block rather than just hanging it all off the front of the phone switch.

• 12 of the analog phone lines off the PBX switch run into my house (via 3 of the 4 CAT5 cables in my conduit) for my various vintage telephones throughout the house.
• 4 lines are dedicated to the dialup modem server (via a call group).
• 4 more to my workbench for telephone/modem testing.
• 4 more to my PC display wall for the various PCs and terminals to dial into my modem server.

Network wise

• The final CAT5 cable from the house feeds into a 5-port gigabit switch mounted below the PBX, that switch then feeds
  1. Netgear 16-port gigabit switch on the workbench
  2. Cisco 24-port 10/100 switch (with gigabit uplink) for the PC display wall
  3. CCTV security camera
  4. Netgear 600N wireless AP and 4-port 10/100 switch which feeds
     1. The Dial-up PC
     2. a 2nd CCTV security camera
     3. Linksys PAP2 SIP Analog Telephone Adapter that feeds dial-tone from my Asterisk PBX in the house to the AT&T Merlin Legend PBX here.

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