How many cables are required in the conduit between apartment and shaft ?

Globally communication services are delivered to homes using:

• Untwisted Telephone cable (1-pair)
• Twisted Pair Ethernet cable (cat5e/6)
• Optical Fiber 
• coaxial cable (widely used for Broadcast television in India)
• Over-the-air or Wireless Networking (Wifi, Cellular)

One fundamental idea of patch panel is to ensure that each cable type support is their for each apartment to accommodate all kinds of SP service distribution architecture from shaft onwards. 

The service to drop cable map in APR Phase 3 condominiums is like this:

1. Intercom - Via telephone cable (1-pair needed) and provided by Pursuit. Fixed and Adarsh will provide 2-pair cable by default (1-pair can be used later for direct landline by BSNL and/or ADSL service)
2. Data (variable)
1. If owner chooses ACT broadband or EDigital/Tata-DoCoMo, then it will come to apartment over  a single Cat 6 UTP
2. If owner chooses Airtel Broadband, then it will come to apartment  over 2F optical fiber
3. Video (TV) - Via Coaxial for cable TV, Airtel DTH (MDU) and Tatasky DTH (MDU). 

This is the bare minimum required. Additionally we recommend that owners go for an additional Cat6 cable and additional 2F Optical Fiber [both reserved fir future use (apartment data share in future like CCTV footage share, 2nd Broadband connection for failover/load-balance).

To summarize cable package configuration is:

• Base Cable package (Mandatory for each flat) - 1x2-pair telephone + 1xCat6 UTP + 1x2F OFC
• Addon cables (Optional but Highly Recommended) - 1x cat6 + 1x2F OFC

The addon cables is recommended based on following premise. Topday the only aaprtment owned service is Intercom voice. In future, it may be extended to some data like some CCTV camera footage sharing, campus LAN, Video-on-Demand, etc and may be delivered by Pursuit or association owned network (future possibility). In such a scenario  an Airtel or ACT Broadband subscriber may actually need data service from Pursuit or  apartment association vendor and this may require additional optical fiber or LAN cable. If not their, the flat may need to be re-cabled at extra cost & collateral damage risk to that flat's cables. The addon cabling and termination and labor has to be paid for entirely by owner.  Therefore its a recommendation, not mandatory and owners can use their own discretion to make the decision.

Cable TV or video wires are already provided by Adarsh (1 cable). Owner can add extra one in the separate conduit as addon (but this may not be feasible for T3/Daffodils).