atcomsystems.ca/forum Forums Wiring - Telecom Carriers - Trunks & Services Cabling Telephones Systems Wiring Do Lucent / Avaya keystone jack use standard or specialized wall plates

Commscope is now the manufacturer of Systimax (AT&T, Lucent and Avaya) cables, hardware & such.

It sure makes thing difficult when Lucent/Avaya had not make their module jacks different than the standard. So now its uncertain which plates work with them and which don't

Is there a list of compatible models to Lucent/avaya? So far from this message board, I am gathering that:

1. Commscope
2. Shuttle star series
3. Lucent/avaya brand ones of course.

So these plates that work with Avaya/Lucent will not work for Leviton or other standard modules?

On another topic regarding Leviton:

It is my understanding that they also make their own wall plates but they will kind of fit a standard plate although it might be a very tight fit. Is that correct? So they are must less specialized than the Lucent/avaya modules.

In other words, it sounds like Lucent/Avaya has a radically different method fit their plate whereas Leviton and the rest use the standard fit method.

Thanks again for your help.

No, Leviton is a standard keystone jack.
Commscope bought Systimax, which was Avaya's data cabling line, formerly Lucent, formerly AT&T.
Jeff

If you use Keystones made by ICC or any other manufacturer that uses the "in-line" terminations, they won't fit the 4- or 6-plex Leviton faceplates. You have to switch to ICC's "High Density" jacks to make them fit.

Customer chose Leviton "Almond" for their electrical. ICC's Almond didn't match at all, so we chose ICC Cat-6 jacks and Leviton 3-plex faceplates. That color match was OK.

Yeah, sometimes you run into that
The job I am working on is all Leviton, in ivory, so it will match fine.

When Commscope bought Avaya's wiring line, they created 2 lines of products. The have their Systimax line and Uniprise line. Uniprise is a lower grade than systimax but everything looks the same between the 2 lines. I have never tried using the 2 together but it should work. I use Systimax all the time.

Systimax and Uniprise go together just fine.

https://www.sundance-communications.../ubb/get_topic/f/24/t/000237.html#000000

there is a chart in the link check it out.

https://www.phonegeeks.com/whatfitinwha.html


THANKS! That really help out!

Even if the jacks fit the wallplate, it still poses limitations. If you want to go 6 outlets per wallplate, you must use a jack designed to fit. The vertical spacing of the openings determines the jack type you use. I always use Allen-Tel because they fit all wallplates in all configurations. Except those damned Unicom products - totally not compatible. They use proprietary dimensions.