Client: Schaltbau | Sector: Warehouse | Duration: 2 Months
Schaltbau is an electromechanical components and systems producer for transport and industrial applications. For their new offices and Wifi for their warehouse, they required a full Cat7 cabling installation
The new office and warehouse unit is based in Rooksley, Milton Keynes. The project was designed with a high specification structured cabling system. Furthermore, this employed Cat7a throughout and Om4 fibre cabling links between the server and the main data cabling cabinets
Together with the high data cabling installation and termination requirements of Cat7a cabling, specific care was taken in the design, installation and positioning of the data cabling outlets
Cat7 Data Cabling
Cat7a data cabling would be used for Telephone Systems, IT systems, Wi-Fi, and DECT Phone base stations. In addition, spare cables were installed for future applications
Since the property was part office and part warehouse space, various data cables had to be installed. This was from access towers and electric scissor lifts at working heights of 8 m. In addition, this would be required for running the data cabling to the WIFI and DECT access points
Furthermore, the office space was only aesthetically refurbished, so part of the data cabling design for NM Cabling was how to incorporate the containment for running and terminating the structured cabling
Lastly, a range of dado and maxi trunking was employed for this purpose
The installation of bespoke containment and careful design ensured the cabling maintained its bend radius and enabled correct termination at the user end. To this end, Cat7 has a thicker and more solid cable type, and its containment required is for a larger, more rounded trunking
Cat7 Cabling Challenges
Accordingly, one of the challenges with higher-grade cabling installations is the correct containment. In addition, pre-designed routes were required and allowances made to overcome challenges on this project
Upon completion of the data cabling installation and termination, the testing was undertaken. This was with a specific Cat7 cabling tester. Lastly, the unique element of this project and any Cat7 cabling project
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- High Level Warehouse Data Cabling
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- Cat7 Installation in Office
Schaltbau structured cabling Cat7a and Om4 fibre cabling links -See the full Case Study