Main components of an abitana Home Network

Comm Center

The Comm Center is a standard wall mount or flush mount DIN rail cabinet, available in many sizes and finishes. Clear labels and icons make it extra user friendly. Adding new functions is easy because of the modular approach. It is important to foresee this by planning in some spare space when choosing the right cabinet.

Comm Center connector

Each OmniMedia wall outlet has a corresponding connector in the Comm Center. They are interconnected by OmniMedia installation cable. The Comm Center connector takes up one standard DIN rail width (17,8mm). This ensures total freedom when dimensioning the home network. The Comm Center connector is built up from a holder that snaps onto the rail and the connector itself that clicks into the holder after termination to the cable.

TV/Radio module

This amplifier module distributes TV and FM radio to four locations in the house. It features a variable gain for optimum picture quality. The module is available with abitana’s IR-bus, a return channel for the infrared remote controls of the DVD player, video recorder, satellite decoder etc.

Audio/Video Modulator

Images and sound delivered by up to 4 sources such as a VCR, DVD player, SAT receiver or surveillance camera can be viewed on any of the TV sets that are connected to the Home Network. The module is equipped with abitana’s IR-bus.

IR-Bus

Abitana's IR-bus features an infrared detector at the side of the TV set and an infrared transmitter at the side of the DVD player, VCR, SAT decoder, etc. IR receiver and transmitter are interconnected through the Home Network cabling and eventually the TV/Radio module and the Audio/Video modulator. This enables any equipment to be remote controlled from any room of the house.

Phone/Fax module

Sends phone lines to four wall outlets and interconnects phone and fax equipment that may be located in different rooms. Suitable for one or two analog incoming lines or an ISDN line. A version supporting the call confidentiality function is also available.

Audio Hub

The Audio Hub is placed in the central communications cabinet and allows the distribution of line level signals between mono or stereo audio sources (like tuner, CD player, tape recorder, PC audio board outputs,...) and playback or recording equipment (like amplifiers, active speakers, tape recorders, hard disk recorders, PC audio board inputs, ...). The hub allows listening to 2 independent stereo sources in 5 zones of the house. Each audio connection can take care of two stereo signals, in the same direction (two stereo upstream signals) or in opposite directions (one stereo upstream, one stereo downstream). Infrared remote control signals can be fed from each "listening" side to each audio source via cabling and Audio Hub.

Fast Ethernet Switch

This 5 port 10/100 Mbps Switch can be used as a standalone device or as an extension to the Internet Gateway to increase the size of the LAN. The Fast Ethernet Switch automatically recognizes all connected PCs and selects the highest possible port speed (10 or 100Mbps), the port polarity (MDI/MDIX) and the transmission mode supported by each piece of equipment.

OmniMedia patch cords

Shielded OmniMedia patch cords make the interconnections inside the Comm Center.

Adapters

Various adapters are available to connect all types of equipment to the Home Network using standard connection cords.

OmniMedia connectors

The abitana OmniMedia connector is the engine of the Home Network. Indiscriminately of the application, an RJ45 connector with a high shielding efficiency is used. The connector snaps into the outlet cover plates of your choice by a simple click-latch mechanism. Standard color coding and fork-type IDC contacts ensure a quick and reliable installation onto the OmniMedia cable.

Screened OmniMedia installation cable

This very high-frequency installation cable takes care of interconnecting the OmniMedia wall outlet and the OmniMedia Comm Center connector. This cable is suited for wideband applications up to 865 MHz and all types of signals that will be encountered in the challenging multimedia home network. The screened OmniMedia cable has four twisted pairs, of which one has been optimized to transport wideband TV signals. The four pairs together enable very high speed PC networking up to 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet).

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