Data cabling is not only a technology but it can also be called an Art. You have must have seen some amazing Data cabling jobs on the internet. A professional data cabling professional truly foresee and envision a network cable design before actual implementation and installation. Right from cable routing and Cable management, every thing needs a well planned strategy and most important time and patience. With the addition of implementing data cabling best practices, this can be a pleasant experience for any company.
All cabling work must with conducted in compliance with the with regulatory and location Standards and by Laws.
Always use Professional Grade Cabling which conforms to required standards.
The Cabling solution should be Scale-able and designed and installed to allow future expansions, moves and Changes without frequent rewiring of locations. The cabling system should be planned and designed to ensure adequate segregation from electrical and hazardous services, ensuring system integrity and performance, ensuring that it does not present problems of current and future maintenance or access, and ensuring there is no conflict with the operation and maintenance of other systems.
All installations of telecommunications infrastructure should offer a minimum of a 15 year System Warranty.
The Cabling company should take care of any drilling work and should make sure that that after the work being carried out, the buildings / grounds / work areas are returned to its original state. In other words, the Data Cabling company should take care of any painting, back filling, caulking etc.
Installation Best Practices:
The Cabling company show allow for at-least 30% spare capacity for future growth. If running a Cabling Duct or cable tray, enough room should be available for Future Cable runs.
All Network equipment racks should be effectively earthed to a Communications Earthing Terminal for safety.
Cable trays in should be used in the IT Rooms for the number of cables terminating in the communications room and should allow for at least 30% growth. Where cables exit off cable tray or enter wall cavities the cables should be protected with an approved ridge support (E.g. Corrugated Conduit) maintaining the cable’s minimum bending radius for drops greater than 45°.
All Data points should be properly and neatly labelled.
All the Cabling should be thoroughly tested using Certified Network cabling Testers and test results should be provided to the Client for verification.
After cabling is done, a documentation should be provided outline the locations and labeling nomenclature for the IT team to manage the IT network.