PBX - NTE5

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If I wanted to add some future proofing to my Ethernet cabling by also including provision for adding a PBX at a later stage...

I currently have a secondary master socket / NTE5 which is wired from 2 & 5 of my external master / XTE to the AB of the NTE5. This provides a filtered adsl connection via a vdsl filter interstitial face plate.

Should I run a Cat6 cable from the patch panel upstairs to the XTE or daisy chain from the NTE5 as an extension?

Is there a PBX faceplate that fits to the lower half of an NTE5, i.e. so it doesn't connect to the test socket, but rather can be wired to the patch panel and then to an extension port on a PBX?

If there isn't an NTE5 style PBX lower half faceplate does the NTE5 just become an adsl socket only and I would then be best to put a blank plate on the lower half?

It would be nice to make use of the NTE5 lower half for PBX as it would save having to use a CAT6 port on a nearby faceplate for telephony.

Do I need a special patch panel or do all patch panels do both voice and data?
 
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Run a Cat6 as normal, then jumper the rear of the patch panel as above.

Now run a length of cable from the rear of the first patch port to a BT plug on one end to the front of the NTE5 and plug in to the front as normal.

Then, patch any of those 4 ports to any room or socket in your home and use a cat6 to BT adaptor as shown in the link by mrbell1984.

Sounds more complicated than it is, but this way you can pull the plug at the NTE5 and quickly disconnect all extensions without taking off the faceplate. :)
 
Isn't that doing the same as a typical daisy chained PSTN set up would be, NTE5 > ext1 > ext2 etc etc, albeit in a star topology?
 
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What I'm trying to do is provision cable correctly to support a possible later addition of a PBX.

I'm currently thinking I should pull CAT6 down to the NTE5 so it could be terminated there on to an NTE5b faceplate ie as an extension terminated on the other end to the patch panel. Would I not just use a patch cable to connect then between the patch panel and a PBX for the outside line. Likewise for the PBX extensions connect from those ports on a PBX to whichever CAT6 ports on the patch panel I wanted as telephone extensions?

From my internet searches it seems there isn't anything in terms of a PBX extension that would fit the lower half of an NTE5, which is a shame to have to blank it off so as the extensions only come from the PBX as its a bit of a waste of a socket position at the NTE5.
 
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