Signamax™ Cabling System Design Principles & Installation Practices Revision A

INTRODUCTION

Generic Cabling Systems Evolution history: –60s, 70s, and 80s –Balanced and unbalanced transmission media –First adapters –Ethernet, Token Ring … –IBM, Cabletron, Bay Networks –Category 3 UTP, IBM Type I … –UDC, BNC, DB9, DB15, DB25 … –TIA/EIA (1985) –1991: ANSI/TIA/EIA-568 –ISO/IEC 11801, CENELEC EN … –First structured cabling systems

Why structured cabling? Major risks connected with non-standard cabling: –Network performance is lower than the one specified by the standards –High cost of making changes to the system (the so-called MAC – Moves, Adds, Changes procedures) –Inability to support new technologies

Why structured cabling? As the principles of structured cabling design and installation become increasingly recognized, the installed network equipment becomes less and less expensive and the efficiency of data transmission grows exponentially The structured cabling system has been the basis for information network as long as it exists. It is a foundation, which enables all business applications A well designed, assembled, and maintained cabling system reduces maintenance costs at all stages of its lifetime

Why structured cabling? Lifetime of different components of a building’s information infrastructure (sources: ANSI/EIA/TIA-568, HP, Siemon)

Why structured cabling? According to statistics, imperfect networks are responsible for up to 70% of all information system downtime

Why structured cabling? Reasons for information systems downtime (sources: Sun Microsystems/Gartner)

Why structured cabling? Information systems downtime cost (source: Infonetics)

Why structured cabling? Cost of one hour of downtime (sources: BICC, Strategic Resources Group)

Why structured cabling? Nortel Networks: –Numerous research results show the actual price of downtime. Thus, for example, “In the energy supply industry the loss of one hour can cost you millions of dollars –All studies show that if a major company stops its activities for one or two days it will probably stop being an independent business

Why structured cabling? Tolerable information system downtime – results of IT managers’ estimations study (source: FRIEDHELM LOH GROUP)

Why structured cabling? Relation between losses due to network downtime and slowdown (source: Vigilant)

Why structured cabling? Estimations of cabling system relative cost (source: Anixter) Retransmitted packet volume, % of traffic Actual transmission rate, Mbit/s Network investment effectiveness, %

Why structured cabling? Network efficiency versus company efficiency (source: Anixter)

Why structured cabling? Company’s work structure

Why structured cabling? Information Week Research’s Outlook 2005: –Typical company with annual revenue of 1.5 billion US dollars invested about 8% of its revenues into IT infrastructure and services in –Although the cabling system usually exists longer than most other elements of the information infrastructure, its initial value is normally no more than 5% of total investments into the information system. Therefore, the structured cabling system is quite a valuable contribution to the efficiency of any institution or company

Why structured cabling? Structure of investments to create the information system

Why structured cabling? The latest statistical research has shown that about 40–50% of all company’s employees move around within the building each year

What is structured cabling? ISO/IEC definition of structured cabling: –“Generic cabling – a structured telecommunications cabling system, capable of supporting a wide range of applications. Generic cabling can be installed without prior knowledge of the required applications. Application specific hardware is not a part of generic cabling.”

What is Structured Cabling? Structured Cabling –is not a telephone network –is not a data network –is not a cable TV network –is not a video surveillance network –is not a BMS, FLS, etc. network Structured Cabling – integrated building engineering infrastructure (upon which all listed above networks can be built)

Signamax™ Cabling System Signamax Cabling System – complete solution Signamax Cabling System is built based on the structured cabling system Signamax Cabling System is based on the rules and specifications outlined in ISO/IEC and ANSI/TIA/EIA- 568-B standards Signamax Cabling System Manual is an independent document

Signamax Cabling System Signamax Cabling System Design Principles & Installation Practices Manual describes all aspects relating to design, installation, administration, certification testing, registration to apply for one of the Signamax warranties provided by the Signamax Connectivity Systems

Signamax Cabling System The Manual contains two groups of rules the compliance with which effects warranty issue – –Requirements and –Conditions

Signamax Cabling System “Requirements” concern the rules relating to transmission performance, design and installation rules, certification testing, and applying for SCS warranty, i.e. those rules that are necessary to comply with to provide a high quality, reliable product such as Signamax Cabling System to the end user Failure or violation of one of the requirements, which are part of the Signamax Cabling System, can be the grounds for denial to provide the Signamax Cabling System warranty or, if the violation is discovered after, the warranty has been issued, for termination of the warranty service and agreement

Signamax Cabling System  1 All the rules marked by  in the Manual are regulatory (requirements) and are binding in case Signamax’s warranty for the cabling system installed shall be obtained. The requirements are described by terms “shall,” “must,” “prohibited,” “not allowed,” etc.

Signamax Cabling System “Conditions” concern the rules relating to common universal methods of design and installation, selection of materials or equipment, supply of certain cabling system resources needed to ensure its long-term continuous operation and the possibility of improvement over the whole warranty period as well as adaptation to new telecom applications and technologies Conditions are the requirements the effect of which can be limited by some unavoidable objective circumstances. In all cases when the condition can be implemented, it takes on the requirement status

Signamax Cabling System  1 All the rules marked by  in this manual are advisory (conditions) and must be complied with to obtain the Signamax warranty for the cabling system installed in all cases except for when they cannot be executed due to objective reasons. The conditions are described by the terms “recommended,” “allowed,” “permitted,” etc.

Signamax Cabling System Signamax Cabling System elements : –Signamax Warranty System –Signamax Cabling System components –Cabling System: Horizontal subsystem Backbone subsystem –Telecommunications spaces: Work Area Telecommunications Room Equipment Room Entrance Facility –Installation practices –Administration –Certification testing –Warranty registration