Install environment · Hotel guest room

ReadyLinks IPC behind the TV

The coax that already feeds the TV becomes the room's network link. One small client behind the screen serves the IPTV box and the room's Wi-Fi.

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   The guest room

   A typical room: TV on the wall over the dresser, a coax outlet behind it, and guests who expect IPTV and fast Wi-Fi. Pulling new Cat6 to every room means opening walls and taking rooms out of service.

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   Behind the TV

   Swing the TV out on its arm. The IPC-2C mounts on the wall in the space behind the screen, next to the coax and power outlets that are already there. Nothing shows from the room.

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   Meet the IPC-2C

   A 4 × 3 inch ReadyLink client with one coax port (F connector), two 2.5GbE PoE++ ports and USB-C power. It is provisioned and monitored from its host switch in ReadyView, like every other room.

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   The existing coax is the uplink

   A short jumper runs from the wall outlet to the RL port. Inside the wall, the same RG6 that carried TV channels runs back to a ReadyLink host switch in the IDF, and now carries Ethernet to the room.

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   The other end: a ReadyLinks host

   In the IDF, the room's coax lands on a ReadyLinks host switch that links it to the hotel network. Pick the install in the toolbar: a GL-24xC in the rack feeding splitters on a plywood backboard beside it, plus direct home runs, or a hardened GL-8xCH mounted on the backboard itself. Either way, one host port serves up to 16 clients through the building's existing passive splitters.

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   GE1 to the IPTV set-top box

   A patch cord from GE1 feeds the IPTV box beside it, which drives the TV over HDMI. Channels, the guest welcome screen and on-demand content all arrive over IP.

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   GE2 PoE++ to the Wi-Fi access point

   GE2 runs through the wall to an access point above the TV and powers it over the same cable, with up to 90 W of PoE++ available. Every room gets its own AP, so coverage doesn't depend on a hallway unit through the door.

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   Powered from the TV outlet

   A USB-C PD adapter in the outlet behind the TV powers the client and both ports. With a 140 W EPR adapter the full 90 W PoE budget is available, and the client draws about 3 W at idle.