Communications is very important in modern society. With exception to SRO?s, there will be a communications closet in the office space. This closet will have a rack for servers, and switches. There is no telephone lines in the apartments for reasons I will explain later. Instead, there is a coaxial cable in the great room, and bedroom. For studios, there will be one in the main room. There are also a lot of RJ45 jacks. This is to assure you have an ethernet connection no matter where you would want to put the device.
For internet and networking, all switches are 10GBPS which means the bottleneck is like your devices being that they are consumer grade 1GBPS connections, or slower with wifi?. Each apartment will have a dedicated 300MBPS FiOS? connection. This will be the same upstream as it is downstream. This assures you have a consistent internet connection. Keep in mind, that Xfinity’s Internet Essentials will be capped at 75MBPS which means you have about 4 times the speed included with the rent.
For telephone, there is no POTS? services anymore. Simply put, Verizon who owns the POTS network in Allegheny County is shutting down its network. There are no new nor moving customers. This means you can’t get POTS phone service even if you had it at your previous residence, and you are moving to an apartment with FSP Realty. Because of this, there is no telephone lines in the building. If you are connecting a POTS device, you must use an ATA?. You would plug the device into the ATA, and the ATA plugs into the RJ45 jack in the wall. To compensate, all tenants will have a home telephone line that they can use for whatever use they choose. The apartment will have a single wifi phone. This phone will plug into a building wide network for telephone communications. You can choose to use the phone or not. If you wish to use other hardware, you would be required to support your own phone service. Your telephone number will be a +1 412 telephone number, and you would have unlimited domestic calling. If you need to reach another apartment, you can dial their apartment number (pricede 3 digit apartments with a 0). You can choose to make any calls, and there will be short numbers that you can use (such as PIZZA 74992 for the choice Pizza Shoppe). Since you will have your own phone number, and account – you would be able to make and receive calls showing your home phone number. You can request that your number changes 1 time during your time with the building. This way if you are getting too many calls for the previous tenant, then you can make the change.
For television, you can install an OTA? DVR? to the window sill with the connections. With a smart TV, you can download and installed your DVR’s app on to the TV, and watch channels that way. However, if you want cable television, there will be 2 coaxial jacks. Left is Verison TV, and right is Xfinity. You will likely need to plug the FiOS TV box to the left coaxial. If you are choosing Xfinity, you would definitely need to use the right coaxial jack.