...are reviewed initially with each new Client; then adapted & maintained continuously to ensure the Client and design team always maintain the same technology vision.

• Technology Agnosticism

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  Technology Agnosticism

  The cabling infrastructure is not designed around any particular technology. Technologies will come and go many times over the life of the cabling system. Therefore, no technology in particular should be a design target.

• Pathways & Spaces

  Pathways & Spaces

  All cabling pathways and Telecom Rooms are designed to match the maximum capacity of the spaces they serve and have adequate accessibility. All future cabling and technologies can then be added without construction and with minimum business disruption.

• Ensure Sustainability

  Ensure Sustainability

  No matter how superior a systems capabilities are, it won’t be used if the users don’t trust it and/or the staff cannot operate and administer it effectively. All designs shall provide maximum capabilities that are supportable and sustainable from the viewpoint of the Owner.

• Provide Telco Level Planning

  Provide Telco Level Planning

  User expectations of a home telephone service are extremely high. This reliability expection is the result of pre-planning, service, and implementation rigor initially designed in by the Telco design engineers. The Telco service technicians are simply propagating the model and updating the documentation. This preplanning model clearly works and is a model every enterprise network should be based on.

• Certifiable Performance

  Certifiable Performance

  Every cable, copper or optical fiber, is subject to a strict suite of performance criteria that allows for calculable performance and technology support determinism. It is absolutely determinable whether any particular future technology will work or not before you purchase.

• Commonality of Infrastructure

  Commonality of Infrastructure

  A properly designed uniform structured cabling system is easier to understand, test, and maintain by your IT and maintenance staff than several disparate technologies.

• Convergence Is The Future

  Convergence Is The Future

  The design and integration of the network electronics must take place before the turn-up of converged systems requiring network transport. Networks are no longer just an overlay system and relatively insignificant.

• Manufacturer's Warranties

  Manufacturer's Warranties

  When designed and certified strictly per TIA standards, cabling systems typically carry a manufacturer’s warranty of 25 years or greater on both cabling and installation.

• Manufacturer Agnosticism

  Manufacturer Agnosticism

  Proprietary cabling systems are be avoided. Proprietary products are typically pre-standard versions and may never reach the performance criteria of the next ratified standard. Staying standardized means you’ll never be subject to vendor lock-in.

• Industry Standards Adherence

  Industry Standards Adherent Designs

  Maintaining that your buildings use a TIA Standards based infrastructure ensures that the technology manufacturers are always designing their products to work with your installed infrastructure and not the reverse.

• Coverged Infrastructures

  Coverged Infrastructures

  By converging building systems over a common infrastructure from the initial design, funds typically allocated for non-converged conventional systems (intra-building and inter-building parallel conduit, cabling, and termination labor) may be reallocated to build a more robust internetwork from the original construction budget.

• Centralized Head-End Equipment

  Centralized Head-End Equipment

  Similar to the way it’s unnecessary to know where Google is located, converged services may be hosted/sourced from any well contacted location in or beyond your network. This improves IT response and repair times by putting the equipment wherever the IT staff that maintains them reside (even if it’s outsourced).

• Collapsed Core

  Collapsed Core

  A collapsed core allows you to save money by leveraging economies of scale and more completely utilizing the head-end hardware. The savings results from the ability to allow multiple remote sites to share fewer, but more robust, head-end hardware as opposed to distributed less robust, under-utilized, hardware units at each site.

• Transport Supervision

  Transport Supervision

  By using the network as the common transport for all building systems, a single well understood management system could monitor the transport for all systems.

• Rigorous Drawing Detail

  Rigorous Drawing Detail

  Drawings must have sufficient detail to allow you to legally, and confidently, enforce both the quantitative and qualitative design requirements. The detail should allow for “legally binding determinism” regardless of the Contractor chosen.

• Onsite & Offsite Administration

  Onsite & Offsite Administration

  All facets of the design and implementation shall as thorough, standards based, and self-documenting as possible to allow for easy port/device differentiation from both onsite and offsite; with docs or without. Electronics administration should be possible from anywhere with IP connectivity.

• Make an Explicit Technology Baseline

  Make an Explicit Technology Baseline

  The design and final documentation educates your current and future IT staff and provides an explicit and thoughtful technology baseline to continue from with future projects.

• Provide Continuing ROI

  Provide Continuing ROI

  The Design & documentation shall be sufficient for IT administrators to easily and explicitly delegate tasks remotely to junior staff through WYSIWYG drawings. Saving IT staff time while facilitating the maintenance of the as-built documentation which saves future design fees and construction surprises.