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Winter 2010
Data Cabling Reference Sites
Able Data Installations Plc
Able House, 1 Figree Hill
Hemel Hempstead
Herts HP2 5XL
Tel: 01442 219580
www.abledata.co.uk
RReeeedd SSmmiitthh Summary Installation of Data & Voice Cabling over 13 Floors
Contact Nick Bennett Coleman Bennett International 19th Floor 30 St Mary Axe London EC3A 8AD
Location Broadgate Tower, London
Contract £400k
Systems Systimax GigaSPEED XL Cat 6
Installed Sept 2008 - Feb 2009
Consultant Coleman Bennett International
Contractor ISG
Project Description
Reed Smith, one of the 15 largest law firms in the world with more than 1,500 lawyers, have consolidated its London operations by relocating from two legacy sites to a single new London Headquarters at Broadgate Tower, London. As part of the fit out Able Data were contracted to install 6,000 data outlets distributed over thirteen floors. The installation time spent on site was greatly reduced thanks to the use of pre-terminated cable looms, which were manufactured and tested off site. One of the key challenges to solve was the running of a fibre and copper cable backbone over thirty floors from the IT computer room at the foot of the building to the office floors.
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Autumn 2009 Page 1
AAsshhmmoolleeaann MMuusseeuumm Summary Cabling of Major New Building Extension
Contact Dr Jonathan Moffett Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH
Contract £200K
Systems Molex Cat6
Installed Dec 2008 - Oct 2009
Builder BAM
Project The Ashmolean Museum, dating from the 17th century, is the oldest public museum in the UK. Award-winning architect Rick Mather created a new building that has doubled the Ashmolean’s gallery space and state-of-the-art facilities. In November 2009, the £61M redevelopment opened to the public. Able Data installed a structured cabling system, consisting of nearly a thousand outlets, spread over 6 floors of the new building extension. Each of the 13 remote patch cabinet locations had a fibre & copper backbone linking to the Basement computer room. As well as the provision of the computer cabinets at each location Able Data supplied & installed an APC UPS & 3Comm Switch. The biggest challenge was the complexity and range of cable routes. Whilst some outlets are located in low floor boxes, others for high gallery points (overhead projectors etc) are at more than eight metres high. Another challenge was fitting cabling around a complex building program; many outlets could not be terminated or tested until after the exhibition cabinets had been installed.
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Autumn 2009 Page 2
Misys Summary Cabling & moves into new headquarters building
Contact Phil Davies, IT Manager. Misys One Kingdom Street, Paddington. W2 6BL Tel: 020 8879 1188
Location Paddington, London
Contract £300K
Systems Brand-Rex Cat6 & OM3, Cooper B-Line Cabinets
Start & Finish Feb – Aug 2008
Consultant April Management
Contractor Mastercraft Design
Project Description
Misys were consolidating four regional offices into one new headquarters building. The new offices required 3,000 Brand Rex LSOH Cat6 outlets installed over three floors, each floor being cabled from two patch rooms. Able Data connected the patch rooms through diversely routed OM3 fibre and voice backbones. In the main computer room, Able Data installed Cooper B-Line cabinets, fitted with the Unite Hawki-2 intelligent power monitor and control products. Able Data also managed the movement of 500 users into the new building. Scheduled over five weekends, this included providing an asset register of all of their computer equipment and a full moves service into the new offices, including connection and test of all of the desktop equipment.
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Ashburton Court Summary Hampshire County Council Office HQ & Data Centre
Contact Bob Davis, Senior ICT Consultant Mace Atelier House, 64 Pratt Street London NW1 0LF Tel: 020 7554 8000
Location Winchester City Centre
Contract £850K
Systems Nexans Lanmark-6 10G F/UTP, Nexans LANsense System, Excel Cat6
Installed Sep 2007 – May 2009
Consultant Mace
Contractor BAM
Project Description
In 2009 Hamshire County Council (HCC) completed a major office refurbishment of its HQ building at Ashburton Court. The conversion of this 1960’s council office building to a naturally ventilated, low energy facility included a heat recovery from the internal Data Centre as a source of heat to service the office areas. Able Data were contracted by BAM to install a data cabling system providing 4,000 Cat6 outlets to the new offices and meeting rooms. Able Data also won the contract to build the new Data Centre facility, completed over eight weeks in Spring 2009. With 70 Prism server cabinets, 5,000 copper links and 2,000 fibre links, this new data centre has become HCC’s primary Data Centre. The facility incorporates leading edge Data Centre technologies to maximise space and power usage and to enable remote operation. Functionality installed by Able Data included a Nexans 10G Ca6a copper cabling system, a Nexans Intelligent Infrastructure Management (IIM) system, Nexans remotely control Intelligent PDU’s and a Data Centre wide Austin Hughes KVM system.
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Veolia Three Valleys Water Summary Cabling of building
Contact Bob Davis, Senior ICT Consultant Mace Atelier House, 64 Pratt Street London NW1 0LF Tel: 020 7554 8000
Location Hatfield Business Park, Hatfield
Contract £200K
Systems Molex PowerCat 6 UTP Cat6
Start & Finish Nov 2008 – Jan 2009
Consultant Mace
Contractor Como
Project Description
Veolia Water (formally Three Valleys Water) consolidated their offices into the new HUB building in Hatfield, a building to house 750 office staff. Able Data were contracted by Como to install a 3,000 outlet Cat6 data cabling system. Run over four floors, outlets were terminated in a grid of 8-way consolidation points installed under the false floor. Desk outlets were connected to the consolidation points through solid patch lead connections. The project was completed over a period of two months.
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Johnson & Johnson Summary Johnson & Johnson Pinewood Building, Wokingham
Contact Paul Leinster Johnson & Johnson The Braccons London Road Bracknell Berkshire RG12 2AT
Location Nine Mile Ride, Wokingham, Berkshire.
Contract £300K
Systems Siemon 10G 6A F/UTP System
Installed Aug 2008 – Jan 2009
Consultant J&J Information Technology Services
Contractor Como
Project Description
Johnson & Johnson, the global American pharmaceutical giant, built a brand new three storey Building at Nine Mile Ride, Wokingham. Able Data quoted and won the contract with Como to install 3,000 Data outlets covering three floors, including the cabling of a state of art Auditorium. Able Data installed a high performance Siemon shielded Cat6a system, tested to provide the full 10G performance over the full 90m required by the installation. Most of the outlets were installed under the raised floor in a grid pattern of 3-way outlets boxes, providing full flexibility for moves and changes. Able Data installed a single mode fibre backbone and fitted out a small data centre with Minkel equipment cabinets.
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FFiiddeelliittyy OOaakkhhiillll DDaattaa CCeennttrree Summary New Data Centre at the Fidelity HQ
Contact John Brogan, Project Manager Fidelity International Oakhill House, 130 Tonbridge Rd Hildenborough, Kent, TN11 9DZ Tel: 01732 361 144
Location Tonbridge, Kent
Contract £2.5M
Systems Systimax Cat 6, LazrSPEED 300 OM3, iPatch, CPI Patch Frames
Installed Jul – Oct 2009
Project Description
Fidelity International is a world-wide leading investment provider. As part of their UK data centre consolidation strategy, Fidelity required a new Data Centre facility at its HQ facility at Tonbridge. Spread over two underground data halls and two office floors, the project required the installation of 30,000 Cat6 copper links and 11,000 OM3 duplex fibre links to 300 Rittal cabinets and used more than 700km of cable. All links connect to a patch field of 80 x CPI patch frames, each monitored with the iPatch Intelligent patch system. The Data Centre was cabled overhead on three levels of CPI ladder racking. One of the biggest challenges faced by Able Data was to deliver the required high quality of cabling. To work out the optimum cable routing schemes, Able Data built an offsite mock up of a row of patch frames and the associated cables. To speed up installation whilst minimising unsightly cable slack, Able Data single end pre-terminated all copper and fibre links. The entire installation was completed over a 14 week period. As well as building and configuring a 40,000 port iPatch system to manage patching and monitor network devices, Able Data implemented additional bespoke functionality tailored to Fidelity’s requirements, including auto server provisioning.
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NNoorrtthh KKeenntt PPoolliiccee Summary North Kent Police HQ
Contact Justice Support Service (North Kent) Ltd
Location Gravesend
Contract £200K
System Siemon System 6 UTP
Start & Finish
Dec 2007 – April 2008
Contractor Imtech Meica
Project Description
North Kent Police new Head Quarters is a new build state of the art 11,500 Metre2 four-storey building, which houses police officers, civilian staff, evidential stores and includes a 40-cell custody suite. Able Data installed 2,000 outlet Siemon Cat 6 LSZH data outlets across the four floors and custody suite. The computer rooms, fitted with Dell equipment cabinets, were interconnected through a Siemon OM3 fibre and Cat6 copper backbone. Able Data also installed a TV distribution system. The biggest challenge of the installation was to install and protect the cabling amidst the confusion of a large building site.
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BBuucckkss NNeeww UUnniivveerrssiittyy ((BBNNUU)) Summary Installation of Data & Voice Cabling over 13 Floors
Contact Andy MacFarlane BAM Construction Centrium, Griffiths Way St Albans, Herts. AL1 2RD
Location High Wycombe
Contract £150K
Systems Excel Cat6
Installed Apr 2009 – Dec 2009
Contractor BAM
Project Description
Buckinghamshire New University’s camp has undergone an extensive £60m programme of rebuilding in 2009. A new, high-tech learning resources centre, known as the Gateway, forms the focal point of the University’s technology-led learning experience. Able Data were contracted by BAM to install an 1,800 Excel Cat6 UTP cabling system, spread over the six patch rooms on the six floors of the new Gateway building extension. Able Data also installed an Blown Fibre (OM3) & a voice link backbone cabling infrastructure between each patch room and the main computer room on the 4th floor.
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Autumn 2009 Page 9
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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Northumberland Hotel Summary Mayflex, Excel Cat 5e - Northumberland Hotel
Contact Northumberland Hotel The Club Quarters Trafalgar Square London
Location Northumberland Avenue
Contract Data, Telephone and RF Cabling
Systems Mayflex Excel Cat 5e
Start & Finish
November 2006 May 2007
Consultant
Contractor Meica
Project Description
The Installation of Telephone, Data and RF cabling to over 1000 Hotel rooms. The Club Quarters Trafalgar Square is located in a beautifully restored building dating back to the 1880's, situated just off London's historic Trafalgar Square which houses Nelson’s Column, the church of St. Martin’s in the Fields and the National Gallery.
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Penguin Summary Penguin – London – Ortronics Cat6 – Outlets 2000
Contact Dean Moore Coleman Bennett International 19th Floor 30 St Mary Axe EC3A 8AD Tel: 020 7638 2000
Location The Strand, London
Contract £400K
Systems Ortronics Cat6 & OM3
Period March 2007 - December 2007
Consultant CBI
Contractor Faithdean
Project Description
This project was part of the Penguin Publishing refurbishment at their headquarters in the Strand. The project was spread over three floors and involved the upgrade and installation of a new Ortronics UTP Clarity Category 6 structured cabling system. Where possible, existing equipment and cables was re-used. A feature of the installation was the use of the Ortronics Clarity Jak-Pak 6-way outlet boxes to offer a very neat desk end solution. The project also included installation of the highly popular Mighty Mo 6 open patch frames.
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Autumn 2009 Page 12
London Transport Museum Summary Structure Cabling & AV Cabling
Location Covent Garden
Contract £100K
Systems Excel Cat 5e UTP
Start & Finish February 07 - November 07
Contractor Imtech Meica
Project Description
The new museum in Covent Garden opened in November 2007 after a two year £22M redesign project. The Museum tells the story of the development of London, its transport system and the people who travelled and worked on them over the last 200 years. Able Data installed a structured flood wired system throughout the Museum and Gift shop. This involved installing cables at large heights in order to reach all parts of the museum. Different sections were also interconnected with a fibre backbone. Able Data also installed a network of specials AV links to support the equipment to enable visitors to enjoy a full vision and Audio commentary as they walk around the museum.
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Fidelity Investments Summary Cabling of Fidelity’s Date Centres
Contact Dexter Baird Oakhill House, 130 Tonbridge Road Hildenborough, Kent TN11 9DZ Tel: 01732 777627
Location Acton Colt Data Centre, London Global Switch 2 Data Centre, London
Contract £650K (Total)
Systems SYSTIMAX GigaSPEED XL Cat6 SYSTIMAX LazrSPEED OM2, OM3
Start & Finish
Jan 2003 – May 2003 Nov 2005 – Dec 2005 Jul 2006
Project Description
In three separate projects, Able Data have cabled Fidelity’s London based Data centres. In the first project Able Data supplied and installed thirty data cabinets and the required cabling infrastructure. The initial installation of 4,000 copper links was completed within four weeks. All RJ45 patch panels are of the Avaya Fleximax variety, where standard outlet modules are clipped into the panel. The second and third projects were similar, but on a larger scale. The third project at Global Switch involved 10,000 links, installed over a period of one month, made possible by the use of off site pre-termination, As part of the initial project, Able Installed also 1,000 10Gbit OM2 fibre links, terminated onto SC connector outlets. The later projects used LC connectors.
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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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APAX Summary Molex Cat 6 – OM3
Contact Stephen Grabiner 020 7872 6300
Location 33 Jermyn Street London SW1Y 6DN
Contract 130k
Systems Molex
Start & Finish
6 Month Project
Consultant CBI
Contractor ISG
Project Description
Able Data Installations installed a Molex Cat 6 & OM3 Fibre Optic cabling systems over 6 floors of the new London headquarters Building of Apax and Partners in Jermym Street. Apax Partners is a global private equity group that invests in five industry sectors. Founded more than 30 years ago, the firm uses its sector expertise, deep local presence and broad global platform to create value for its stakeholders. The history of Apax is Interwoven with the development of the private equity assest class on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Commerzbank Infrastructure Support Summary Infrastructure support for Commerzbank
Contact Russel Sargent, Data Centre Manager Commerzbank, 30 Gresham Street London. EC2P 2XY Tel: 020 7623 8000
Locations • 30 Gresham Street London • Watford Data Centre • Camberley Data Centre
Contract £500K per annum
Systems Siemon 10G System with MAPIT IIM & iTRACS
Start 1988 - Ongoing
Project Description
Able Data have been supporting Commerzbank’s (formally Dresdner Kleinwort) infrastructure for over twenty years. The focus of the service has always been on fast response and quality of service. With 50,000 managed ports in London and more than 60,000 managed ports at the two Data Centres at Camberley and Watford, the facility is probably amongst the largest IIM installations in Europe. Able Data provides a permanent site based team to manage the infrastructure and to plan & implement moves and changes for both the uses and the computer servers. Duties include: • 7:00 – 17:00 daily cover • Isolating and fixing infrastructure problems as they are reported • General administration of the iTRACS system & maintenance of the
MapIT Intelligent hardware • Management & use of iDiscover to monitor network equipment and track
assets • General maintenance of patch frames throughout the buildings • Patching new services • Planning & installation of infrastructure upgrades • Using iTRACS to plan moves and changes Able Data is a Siemon approved installer and an iTRACS iPSP.
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Autumn 2009 Page 18
Debenhams Summary Data Cabling for new and refurbished Department Stores
Contact Peter Craven, Project Manager. Bedford Road, Park Street, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 4DB Tel: 01823 364 303
Location Various retail sites including Hemel Hempstead, Thanet, Woking, Portsmouth & Slough.
Contract £150K
Systems SYSTIMAX PowerSUM Cat5e & Excel Cabinets
Start & Finish
November 2004 (Thanet) March 2005 (Portsmouth, Woking, Sough) April 2005 (Hemel Hempstead)
Consultant N/A
Contractor Various
Project Description
Debenhams has an ongoing program of opening new stores. In each they install a structured cabling system to serve the shop floor tills and pay points as well as the general offices. It is Debenhams policy to use SYSTIMAX PowerSUM cabling throughout. By the nature of shop premises, most of the cabling work is in the ceiling void, requiring the extensive use of platforms. Each store floor will normally have its own cabling cabinet. These cabinets are joined to the master cabinet via either fibre or copper interlinks, depending on the distances involved. Part of this project involved the fast track conversion of three Alders stores to Debenhams in March 2005. This involved the use of three separate cabling teams working on the different sites.
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