Fast-track AMP NETCONNECT network cabling system

AMP NETCONNECT Business Unit of Tyco Electronics install Category 6 network cabling system with more than 2000 outlets at one of Staffordshire University's buildings.

The AMP NETCONNECT Business Unit of Tyco Electronics has installed a Category 6 network cabling system with more than 2000 outlets at one of Staffordshire University's buildings in Stafford.

The project was undertaken in conjunction with two AMP NETCONNECT authorised NDIs (NETCONNECT Design and Installation Contractors) - JPR Engineering Services and TIS.

The final stage, consisting of three floors and 1500 outlets, was completed in record time because the work could only be done during the University's summer recess.

The new system has been installed as part of an ongoing infrastructure renewal project to replace systems that were installed 12 years ago when the University's Octagon building - which houses the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Technology (FCET) among other departments - was built.

'The work undertaken in this department involves a lot of advanced media-based applications and hence needed a state-of-the-art computing and communications infrastructure', comments Alison Curtis, the University's Networks and Telecommunications Support Co-ordinator: 'Having taken the decision to upgrade, we chose an AMP NETCONNECT cabling system because of our previous dealings with Tyco Electronics and their installers, and they rose to the occasion by providing us with a high-quality system in a remarkably short time scale'.

'The contract was awarded in mid-July 2006, the first components arrived on site one week later and the entire project was completed by the second week in September', says Steve Gayton, Business Development Manager of the AMP NETCONNECT Business Unit of Tyco Electronics: 'Typically, a job of this nature would have taken six months, but by working in tandem, the installers selected from the NDI channel, JPR Engineering Services and TIS, managed it in six weeks'.

In addition to installing Category 6 and Category 5e copper cable and OM3 fibre cable, the Tyco Electronics NDIs also worked closely with trunking manufacturers to develop a customised solution for the power poles on the upper floors of the Octagon building, where the heights and wall spacings called for a non-standard approach.

Tyco Electronics also carried out training of key university personnel, including Alison Curtis, who has attended all the company's courses up to NDI level.

'Follow-up support is a key part of the package we offer to our customers', says Steve Gayton, 'which extends to the provision of a 25-year warranty.'.

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