The layer everything else rides on.
Copper, fiber, cross-connect and the edge enclosures that hold them — specified for twenty years of moves, adds and changes.
Categories
4 categories in this family.
Before you spec
Cable outlives everything plugged into it.
Equipment turns over in years, cabling in decades. Specifying to today’s bandwidth is how a building ends up pulling cable twice — and how PoE loads end up heating a bundle nobody sized for it.
Before you spec
Questions we actually get.
It depends on the building, the horizon and what the cable has to power. We work the actual numbers rather than defaulting to whichever is fashionable.
Plan in decades. Equipment turns over in years, cabling does not, and specifying to today's bandwidth is how a building ends up pulling cable twice.
Yes. Powering devices over structured cable adds heat in the bundle, which affects pathway fill and sometimes the category itself.
Yes. Installer familiarity is often the real barrier to a specification holding through buyout.
Spec it with the source on the call.
(800) 313-4175 · Mahwah, NJ