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City of Westminster College

Summary New Data & Voice Cabling system at the new Paddington Green Campus

Contact Dino Michael McLaren Construction Ltd, Curzon House, 7 Curzon Street, W1J 5HG.

Location City of Westminster College, 25 Paddington Green, London, W2 1LG

Contract £500k

Systems Excel Cat6a

Timescales March 2010 – January 2011

Contractor McLaren Construction Ltd

Consultant PTS

Project Description

Paddington Green is COWC’s new campus facility opened in January 2011. The College’s aim was to use cutting-edge architecture design which takes full advantage of the key location in the borough. City of Westminster College offers around 250 full-time and part-time courses to over 7,000 students each year in the centre of London. The project presented a very challenging cabling installation due to the fact that all services, including cabling, had to to be installed under the floor. Able Data installed more than 7,000 Cat6a outlets over the seven floors of the new building. The installation also required the installation of a 24-core OM3 diverse backbone linking 14 computer and patch rooms. The installation included 60 x Copper B-Line equipment cabinets. Hawki control units were used to provide centralised remote monitoring of both the power and environmental conditions within the cabinets.

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Able Data Installations Plc

Tel: 01442 219580

www.ablecable.co.uk

Bear Stearns International Ltd

Summary Bear Stearns 50th

floor Data Centre & Floor Outlet Cabling

Contact Ronald Harman, Data Centres Manager

020 7516 4120

Location Canary Wharf Tower, London

Contract £350K

Systems Ortronics Cat6, Corning OM3 Fibre, Mighty Mo Racks.

Start &

Finish

December 2006 – January 2007

2,000 Cat6 Outlets on the 50th

Floor

Consultant N/A

Contractor Baker Stickland

Project

Description

As part of Bear Stearn’s rapid expansion in London, they had an

urgent requirement to fit out a new floor in the Canary Wharf tower.

Located on the 50th

floor of the tower, this makes it the highest cabling

installation and Data Centre in Europe.

Able Data installed the floor outlets using the Ortronics 6-way outlet

boxes, offering a very neat packaged solution.

Able Data also built a small Data Centre on the same floor using

overhead inter-cabinet cabling and linked to the Bear Stearns 25th

,

44th, 45th & 46th

floors through Corning pre-terminated OM3 fibre.

Over the past six years Able Data has installed over 30,000 outlets for

Bear Stearns on other floors in the Tower.

Able Data – Reference Sites

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Reynolds Porter Chamberlain Summary Cabling of RPC’s new London HQ

Contacts Neil Davidson, IT Manager Reynolds Porter Chamberlain Tower Bridge House St Katharines Way London, E1W 1AA Tel: 020 3060 6000

Carl Stowe-Smith, Project Manager Overbury 77 Newman Street London W1T 3EW Tel: 020 7307 9083

Location Tower Bridge House, London

Contract £400K

Systems Beldon CDT Cat6

Period February 2006 – June 2006

Consultant Coleman Bennett International

Contractor Overbury

Project Description

RPC, a leading UK law firm, consolidated their London operations into the prestigious Tower Bridge House. As part of the fit out of the new building, Able Data supplied and installed 6,000 Cat6 outlets over four floors. These were installed in a flood-filled under floor grid of 4-way outlet boxes, so that outlets can be pulled through the floor and mounted on desk positions as required. Able Data also installed an OM3 fibre backbone, using redundant routes and supporting backup focal points to the building of a fault tolerant network. Able Data also installed an iTRACS cable management system, providing facilities for RPC to manage their cabling infrastructure and to support moves and changes. This included the iDiscovery module, which allows RPC to dynamically discover and monitor ip network devices on the network & to map these onto the cabling infrastructure.

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AllianceBernstein Summary New structured cabling system for AllianceBernstein

Contacts Martyn Chadaway CBI 19th Floor 30 St Mary Axe London EC3A 8AD Tel: 020 7638 2000

Location 50 Berkeley Street, London

Contract £400K

Systems Tyco AMP Cat6

Period January 2006 – June 2006

Consultant Coleman Bennett International

Contractor Wates

Project Description

AllianceBerstein is on of the largest publicly traded global asset management firms in the world. When AllianceBernstein were refurbishing their offices in Berkeley Street, Able Data were contracted to build a new structured cabling system. Spread over four floors, Able Data installed 5,000 new outlets and over 4,000 computer room links. A tight programme required completion in less than size weeks, achieved by using pre-termination to pre-build cable assemblies off site and night working on site. Each floor was flood wired back to two patch rooms per floor. All of the patch rooms were connected to the main and backup computer rooms through diversely routed Cat6 copper and OM3 fibre. Able Data were subsequently awarded the contract to review the cabling at Devonshire House, another AllianceBernstein site in London.

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eBay Berlin Summary Cabling of building in Berlin.

Contact Kevin Wenman Protek Systems Ltd Flexford Road,, North Baddesley, Southampton SO52 9DF Tel: 023 8026 7733

Location Europarc-Dreilinden, Berlin

Contract £350K

Systems SYSTIMAX GigaSPEED XL7 Cat6

Start & Finish Aug -Sep 2005

Consultant N/A

Contractor Direct

Project Description

EBay required a new cabling system for its new J9 HQ building in Berlin. This was to be based upon the eBay US model of cabling and would form the 1st of a number of similar installations around Europe. Able Data installed 2,000 SYSTIMAX outlets over five floors. As per the eBay standard, these were implemented in groups of four on US style faceplates. To fit in with the strong eBay logo branding, the outlets were implemented using coloured jacks, yellow and green (Cat6 for data) and blue and red (Cat5e for voice). These were cabled back to the patch rooms through three cables, the voice outlets sharing one cable. As well as a number of local patch rooms, the project also involved the installation of a data centre. All were built using CPI open frame racks for patching and servers, including full overhead ladder racking. The impressive effect was further enhanced in the data centre by the installation of an overhead Panduit Fibrerunner system for the containment of the fibre interconnections. A crucial aspect of the project was the logistics of shipping specialist materials from UK, US and other parts of Europe in short timescales.

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