Wiring a Small Business Network

[CallumA]

Hi all,

So I've taken a job of setting up a network for a small business. Cat6 cable has already been run to each outlet in the shop (there's many rooms) and they all fall into a central location where I plan to have them all going into a patch panel.

That's all good, however the customer has requested that not all of these points be ethernet sockets. She wants each room to have access to the shared phone line (just a normal landline phone).

Now I understand it is achievable with a switch for internet (Modem -> switch -> patch panel) my question is is there a way of something similar for the phone line (Line -> ?? -> patch panel)

Hopefully I've explained this well enough!

Also, my understanding is this isn't a great way to go, ive mentioned VoIP packages with BT as an alternative but she's adamant she wants the phone line to go into each room.

 

[CallumA]

Off the top of my head, there's around 9 rooms.
And there's 4 cat6's into each room (2 pairs) so my plan was to have one pair was two RJ45 sockets connected to the switch and then the other pair one RJ45 and one RJ11 for telephone. So my plan is to have 9 telephone sockets stemming from the same line.

But obviously have the cleanest looking solution. The customer wants to have an easy way to be able to disable certain access points (for internet and telephone).

I imagined there would be *something* like this:

Excuse my bad drawing but wires from the pp going up to the switch and then wires going from pp to some kind of telephone hub where each socket on that hub is a live line coming from some socket.

 

[CallumA]

Just for the record, decided on getting a small patch panel, I've got the phone line coming in the front (much like you would on a switch) and have just chained it on the back.

Think the customer will plan on getting a VoIP service soon in which I will just make all sockets internet rather than mixed with telephone. Cheers for the help!

(Picture is just a rough idea, I haven't yet done it but will chain all 8 cables even though only 4&5 will be used - more or less what Danny up above suggested)