Open Office Cabling Architecture SYSTIMAX. Structured Cabling System Opens Office Cabling to New Possibilities

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1 Open Office Cabling Architecture SYSTIMAX Structured Cabling System Opens Office Cabling to New Possibilities

2 An Architectural Design That Can Slash Costs for Years to Come Today, the most commonly hidden architectural detail often determines the cost of moving or changing office space. No, it s not glass or steel or concrete. It s cabling. And the cabling decision you make today could be one of the most critical factors controlling operating expenses. With high office churn, recabling cost becomes a major factor in the maintenance of your facility. If you find this surprising, read on. We ll show you how a SYSTIMAX Structured Cabling System especially in an Open Office Architecture can cut initial and ongoing installation and labor costs and keep your building at the leading edge of technology well into the coming century.

3 The Open Office Advantage In today s turbulent economic climate, there s only one effective way for companies to cope: quickly. Moving people and rearranging offices was difficult enough even in a simpler era, when it involved only a desk and a phone. Today s demands for telephone, fax, data, video and other systems can make cabling administration the most expensive and time consuming aspect of office management. Little wonder, then, that traditional cabling is quickly being replaced by SYSTIMAX Structured Cabling Systems (SCS). SYSTIMAX SCS offers nearly limitless versatility to cope with fast changing office environments at lower cost, with guaranteed performance, and better reliability than traditional 4 pair cabling. In its simplest configuration, open office architecture can be horizontal cabling branching from a central telecommunications closet to multiuser outlets (or consolidation points) evenly dispersed throughout the floor, ceiling, walls or user area. The benefits are: Cubicles and work stations can be rearranged quickly and inexpensively, as often as needed, with virtually no rewiring. This dramatically reduces both labor costs and down time. Open office cabling is easier and can be less expensive to install, since spare capacity for growth is built in. Cabling moves can be made in one area without causing lost production or office disruption in other areas. Open office cabling is flexible enough to anticipate future needs. TC TC 4-Pair or 25-Pair UTP...or High-Count Horizontal Fiber Consolidation Point 4-Pair UTP 4-Pair or 25-Pair UTP...or High-Count Horizontal Fiber...or Fiber Outlets Traditional cabling plans of the past required a separate cable run from each device to the central closet. This is fine until you need a PC, fax and printer where the coffee maker now stands. With traditional cabling a job like this might take days of tearing up the floors for a new cable path. Open office cabling allows such changes to be made in minutes, since a network of modular data connections is already in place, easily accessible from any point. Patch Cords Multi-User Outlet Patch Cords New cabling options make Open Office Architecture more versatile The Consolidation Point option makes renovation projects easier by simplifying the transition from permanent horizontal cabling to a flexible Open Office system. The Multi-User option provides equivalent flexibility at reduced cost by bringing high-count horizontal cabling close to the desk, sharing outlets, and using patch cords to eliminate cable extensions. Both architectures are fully standards-compliant with either Category 5 unshielded twisted pair (UTP) or high-count fiber-optic cabling and can minimize the cost of fiber-to-the-desk by eliminating redundant equipment and dramatically reducing the cost of installation, testing, maintenance and administration.

4 Are You Ready For the Future? Your SYSTIMAX Cabling System Is. Emerging technologies are forcing a choice: future-proof now, or retrofit later. And as performance demands steadily rise, open office cabling looks more appealing with each passing minute. When bandwidth-hungry, interactive HDTV arrives, how much will it cost to lay in new coaxial cabling for it? Relax. You won t need coax. SYSTIMAX Category 5 cabling can handle video today full 550-MHz broadband video, over the same unshielded, twisted-pair wire that speeds your voice and data traffic along at Category 5 performance levels of 155 Mbps and beyond. When supercomputers live on every desktop, how will you prevent massive data gridlock? Easily. SYSTIMAX fiber-optic cabling can move mountains of information high bandwidth data with low attenuation at speeds in excess of a staggering one gigabit per second. When fast-changing markets explode with new business opportunities, will you be able to respond more quickly than your competitors? Fast network reconfiguration is integral to SYSTIMAX open office cabling. Virtually every major system in your building can be expanded, moved or re-routed on the fly in hours, or even minutes, rather than days, or weeks. The SYSTIMAX Advantage: Assured compatibility, guaranteed performance Theirs: Compatible? Only with performance-robbing adapters Pairs Ours: FCC standard, Cat 3/4/5 compatible, right out of the box as you'd expect Without SYSTIMAX 25-pair 525 Connectors, you may be in for a tiresome amount of reconfiguring. Some 25-pair connectors manage to meet minimum Cat 5 specs by switching the pin-out positions. This radical change means these connectors no longer comply with FCC standards which makes them incompatible with most standard equipment. You can t even plug one of these connectors into a typical 10BASE-T LAN hub without rewiring, or adding adapters to each connection point a needless expense that can severely degrade performance. The engineers of Bell Laboratories researched this problem for two years. The result: Connectors that surpass Cat 5 specifications by more than 50% while maintaining full compatibility with existing equipment. They re the only connectors you can buy today that do.

5 Copper or Fiber Media In Any Combination You Prefer Perhaps your company thrives on copper cabling. Perhaps you re considering fiber-optic alternatives. With a SYSTIMAX open office solution, you can have either or a combination of the above in a single system tailored more precisely to your needs than you may have thought possible. We re proud to say that Lucent Technologies has developed standardscompliant solutions for all media, to simplify your migration to a modern, open-office cabling system. We design, manufacture and test a complete line of fiber-optic cabling products. It s the most sophisticated network cabling solution available today, with a range of more than 35 miles (60 kilometres) and certified performance up to gigabit speeds. Our newest cables are the only products of their kind to exceed the most stringent worldwide standards for bandwidth and signal loss. Those who prefer copper cabling may be reassured to know that ours leads the industry. Unlike cabling products that merely meet Category 5 specifications, ours are built to far exceed them the only way to achieve true system-wide Category 5 performance. Recent innovations include the development of the first detailed sheathsharing specs for 25-pair cable, the only FCC-compatible 25-pair connector available, and the first copper cabling system to break the Category 5 barrier with data speeds of up to 622 Mbps. The SYSTIMAX Advantage: High Performance Cable The 25 pair 1061C and 2061A Products are designed for high speed data transfer and extended distance coverage in building distribution sytems. Their unique honeycomb construction provides a smaller, more flexible, and easier to install cable. This design prevents pair migration which, when combined with Lucent Technologies patented twist scheme, minimizes crosstalk or signal corruption. The result is excellent data transmission integrity for the life of the product. User friendly color coding and mini-unit construction assures easy installation. The SYSTIMAX Advantage: Simple solutions for trouble-free cabling Suddenly, the network is down. The phones light up, nerves fray, customers are angry, money is being lost with every passing minute. Protect highcapacity equipment with our keyed jacks that won t accept incompatible cabling Use unkeyed jacks everywhere else How long will it take you to find out that someone plugged a Our notched plug works with Cat 3 cable into that both! gleaming new ATM hub that requires a Cat 5 connection? Hours? Days? That can t happen when you standardize on a SYSTIMAX open office cabling solution. Our connectors are notched to prevent those little accidents that can cause such big headaches. As the big-bandwidth machines are phased in, fit them with keyed Cat 5 jacks that will accept only notched Cat 5 plugs. Where bandwidth is less demanding, use unkeyed jacks. Since it s completely backwards compatible, you can plug our notched connector into everything from Cat 5, 155 Mbps ATM hubs in Engineering down to those shared 10BASE-T hubs in Personnel. But you can t accidentally plug an old Cat 3 cable into a hub that has our keyed Cat 5 jack. It just won t fit.

6 Smart Managers Don t Need Just Cabling. They Need Smart Cabling Solutions. SYSTIMAX SCS is a total systems solution, backed by experienced specialists from Lucent Technologies and from our worldwide network of authorized resellers and distributors all dedicated to understanding your needs and achieving your objectives. First, we ll assess your requirements and design a smart, affordable copper and/or fiber cabling infrastructure that can minimize installation time, slash long-term operating costs, and keep your building at the forefront of technology for years to come. Next, highly trained specialists will work with you every step of the way from design planning to final performance testing of the installed system. Finally, we ll follow up by providing a single source for the products and services you need to keep your building s systems operating at peak performance. We can provide the tools you need, such as a comprehensive applications guideline to insure solutions perform up to your expectations. We offer a full range of services, from full-time maintenance to on-site training of your personnel in customized certification courses. And we ll back all this up with a 15-year Extended Product Warranty that covers parts, labor, even comprehensive Applications Assurance protection. New products make open office cabling easier than ever Cabling installation and administration just became faster, easier and less costly with the introduction of the world s first factory connectorized Cat 5 terminal block. The 100 Cat 5 Connectorized Terminal Block brings plug-in simplicity to cabling installation and management an ideal choice for locations where networks must be administered by non-technical personnel. The easy-to-install 2500 Category 5 Modular Jack Panel speeds maintenance and administration tasks to save time and money. This versatile new jack panel is available with a 24-pin or 48-pin capacity, and wired for either EIA T568A or T568B compliance. In all models, reliable printed wiring board circuitry is used to connect front panel 8-pin modular jacks to rear panel RJ21 50-pin inputs. Designed specifically for open office cabling, the Zone Wiring Box can be quickly installed at consolidation points to make cabling additions and reassignments fast and simple. This compact, space-saving wiring box is available in three models to accept modular jacks, 110 connectors or M-series jacks. For further information on these and other top-quality SYSTIMAX components, please contact your Lucent Technologies representative or authorized distributor.

7 Lucent Technologies means Bell Laboratories innovation. Let us put it to work for you. The innovations mentioned in this brochure have only touched the surface of the options now available in cabling media and architecture. Since Bell Laboratories is a global leader in telecommunications (with more than 25,000 patents so far), we may have a few more ideas that you can put to immediate use.

8 For more information To find out more about the benefits of open office cabling architecture, please contact your Lucent Technologies representative, or any authorized distributor or authorized reseller of SYSTIMAX Structured Cabling Systems. Structured Cabling Systems United States: , ext Americas: Asia/Pacific: Canada: Europe: Internet: For additional information about these and other Lucent Technologies products and services, please contact your Lucent Technologies sales representative, or call , ext Outside the U.S. call Visit our web site at SYSTIMAX is a registered trademark of Lucent Technologies This document is for planning purposes only and is not intended to modify or supplement any specifications or warranties relating to Lucent Technologies products or services,. Copyright 1996 Lucent Technologies. All rights reserved Printed in the USA Lucent Technologies Marketing Communications 5119B Issue 02 ND 12/96