1. structured cabling - Strukturierte Verkabelung

A standardized wiring used for diverse services.

2. building entrance facility - Gebäudeeingang Anlage

Refers to the entrance to a building for both public and private network service cables.

3. interbuilding backbone cabling - Backbone

Ground-Networking which is connected between buildings. 

4. intrabuilding backbone cabling - Gebäude Backbone

Cabling which connects floors with each other.

5. telecommunications closet, wiring closet - Telekommunications-/Kabelschrank

A small room for electrical connections such as computer networking.

6. equipment room - Geräteraum

A room or space within a building for the storage or installation of electrical devices.

7. horizontal cabling - Horizontale Kabelung

Cable which goes horizontal from one floor to another by a raceway either through the ceiling or along the floors.

8. raceway - Laufbahn

A track made of plastic for cables.

9. patch panel - Patch Tafel

A device to ease the monitoring/testing of connecting and routing circuits.

10. patch cable, patch cord - Patch Kabel/Rangierkabel

 A cable to connect one electrical or optical device to another.

11. fiber jumper - Faser-Brücke

A fiber optic cabled capped at both ends to connect 2 telecommunication devices.

12. straight-through (-thru) cable - straight-through Kabel

A patch cord to connect 2 different devices to each other, such as a computer to a network switch/hub.

13. crossover cable - Crossover-Kabel

The second version of a patch cord. Unlike the straight-through cable, it connects 2 devices of the same type. Such as 2 computers or 2 switches with each other.

14. work-area wiring - Arbeitsbereich Verdrahtung