A. The requested cabling will be added to the buildings’ current cabling system consisting of main and intermediate (satellite) distribution frames (MDF/IDF frames) connected together with fiber optic cable. Individual Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) cable drops emanating from patch panels at each frame routed to data outlets. Cabling being requested for this project will be indicated on the maps provided at the mandatory pre-bid meeting. B. New cabling shall support the transport of computer data with 10BaseT, 100BaseT, 1000BaseT, 1000BaseSX, and 10GBASE-SR, Ethernet IEEE 802.3 topology. The cable, patch panels, jacks and cable assemblies installed shall support data speeds up to 1000 Megabits per second on all horizontal channels and 10 gigabits per second on all backbone channels. C. The system design is based on an open architecture distributed star topology so that existing equipment and facilities as well as future equipment from multiple vendors can be supported by the system installed. D. The system shall allow for customer administration of the cabling system. The utilization of patch panels, with appropriate cable management systems as indicated are required.
