Structured cabling

Structured cabling is cabling used for transmitting a form of data that is built into a structure instead of being run haphazardly. For example, if you wire a new phone simply by adding a splitter to an existing jack and running the cords between the splitter and the phones, it would not be structured wiring. If you instead drop a new cable and terminate the new outlet where other outlets are terminated in the building, that would be structured wiring.