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Take a look at the lifestyle enhancements Leviton Integrated Networks can bring to your new home:

• Whole-house, high-speed Internet capability in any room
• Multiroom video that can distribute cable TV, VCR programs, DVD and satellite throughout your home
• Whole-house stereo with volume controls wherever speakers are found
• Family and home monitoring to help keep your family and property safe
• Home networking to bring multiple phone and fax lines to your home office
• Programmed and remote lighting control for both ambience and security

Basic Information

Q: What is Leviton Integrated Networks?
A: Leviton Integrated Networks is the Leviton product line for home structured media, lighting, home control and surge protection.

Q: OK. What's a home-structured media system?
A: A system that distributes everything that isn't powered by standard electrical voltage, including Internet, cable, VCR and satellite TV, phone and fax, stereo system, home and child monitoring.

Q: When should I install a structured media system?
A: Installing one is much more economical when a house is being built, but it's also easy to install it during remodeling or when adding an addition.

Leviton Integrated Networks, the Internet and Home Networking

Q: What about Leviton Integrated Networks and the Internet?
A: Whether it's for a home office or a student's room, a kitchen or a family room, Leviton Integrated Networks is capable of high-speed Internet transmission to as many rooms as you choose. (See the following question for more information on high-speed Internet.) Leviton Integrated Networks also turns homes with more than one computer into powerful home networks, for sharing of files, printers or scanners.

Q: Will Leviton Integrated Networks make my Internet downloads go faster?
A: Yes. Leviton Integrated Networks provides a large capacity pathway for downloading information from the Internet. The wiring connections allow speeds more than a hundred times faster than standard modems. But keep in mind that the speed of your Internet connection is also affected by your Internet service provider. A high speed Internet account such as DSL or cable modem from an Internet Service Provider is needed as well.

Q: Can Leviton Integrated Networks help me run an office in my home?
A: Along with Internet access, Leviton Integrated Networks puts telephones, fax/modems and other devices to work in any room of your home, because all rooms are wired and connected. Leviton Integrated Networks gives you a powerful phone network, managing distribution of multiple lines. Leviton Integrated Networks also allows you to connect to your home network just by plugging in to the data jacks in any room.

Q: Do I need anything else to set up a home network?
A: Your computer may need a networking card and software. Check your computer owner's manual.

Q: Will I need to upgrade if I add phone lines or more TVs?
A: It depends on the module you choose for your home. Basic modules can handle four phone lines and six TVs.

Q: Does Leviton Integrated Networks offer surge protection?
A: Yes. Leviton Integrated Networks helps protect sensitive and expensive electronics that can be damaged by voltage surges.

Leviton Integrated Networks and Whole-House Video

Q: Can I get TV reception in any room in my house?
A: Yes. Any video signal (VCR, cable, satellite, DVD) can be distributed to any room in the house.

Q: Do Leviton Integrated Networks products control interior lighting?
A: Leviton Integrated Networks sets the mood for an evening's entertainment, with simplified control of room lighting.

Leviton Integrated Networks and Home-Wide Stereo

Q: Can I distribute music throughout my home?
A: Yes. Using Leviton Integrated Networks audio components, you can have music throughout your home.

Q: What if I want to play the stereo in only a couple of rooms?
A: A volume control unit in each location where speakers are present allows you to turn off the audio.

Leviton Integrated Networks, Camera Monitoring and Security Lighting

Q: Can I monitor the safety of my family in a different part of the house?
A: Yes. Leviton Integrated Networks allows you to distribute a signal to any TV in the house using a camera in the kid's room.

Q: How about security lighting?
A: Leviton Integrated Networks helps create a safer, more secure environment. With features like an ALL LIGHTS ON panic button that turns all controlled lights on for "bumps in the night."

Q: What is the benefit of automatic lighting control?
A: It allows you to set a program for exterior lights to turn on and off automatically. It also increases safety by providing automatic lighting for walkways or entry areas, giving a home an occupied look when you're away.

Q: What is the benefit of "remote" lighting control?
A: Using a transmitter at your bedside, you can control lights all over your home at bedtime.

Q: How does the automated home control system work?
A: It's controlled by transmitters and receivers, which operate on either a programmed schedule or manually like conventional switches, dimmers and outlets.

Technical Information

Q: What does it mean when something is rated Category 5 (Cat 5)?
A: Cat 5 indicates a high level of performance for wire and the products that connect to it. Products that are rated Category 5 meet high performance levels, and allow the home to handle current and future technologies.

Q: What kind of cabling would I need in my home?
A: Typically, voice and data signals are transmitted through either Category 5 or Category 5e wiring, or fiber optic cabling. Each brings progressively higher speed and capability with it. RG-6 and other coaxial cable are a higher level of video and audio wire.

Leviton Integrated Networks and your Home

Q: Can you tell me about the company behind Leviton Integrated Networks?
A:: Leviton Integrated Networks is a product of Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc., the company that probably made the switches and receptacles for the home you live in now. Almost a hundred years of wiring the American home has taught Leviton how to build a flexible, easy-to-operate and upgradeable system.

Q: What does Leviton Integrated Networks cost?
A: Leviton Integrated Networks is available in a variety of models, each with its own advantages. The model you select and the number of outlets you need will determine the price of your Leviton Integrated Networks system.

Q: Will Leviton Integrated Networks add to the value of my home?
A: Leviton Integrated Networks adds utility and enjoyment to your home while you live there, and value to it should you ever decide to sell. It also gives the homeowner "bragging rights" to an intelligent home that is ready for today and tomorrow.

Q: Does Leviton Integrated Networks include a warranty?
A: All Leviton products carry at least a one-year warranty.

We are dedicated to providing powerful corporate support for Leviton Integrated Networks, with high-performance products and attractive product design. Leviton has been standing by its products with high standards in testing and warranty since 1906.