Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) is undergoing vast expansion with seven new facilities for new state-of-the-art campuses: the Larry H. Miller Entrepreneurship Training Center and the High Technology Learning Center. Cabling infrastructures of the first two buildings of the Learning Center are serving as the proof of concept for all future SLCC cabling infrastructures. The combined cabling infrastructure for the Training Center and High Technology Learning Center supports over 1,200 drops distributed among ten labs, 300 offices and a large convention area.
AMP NETCONNECT fiber and copper cabling and the MT-RJ connector system were selected. Bob Prado, telecommunications supervisor at SLCC says that since this was a brand new facility, new cabling had to be pulled, which presented the opportunity to evaluate optical fiber and copper cabling alternatives.
The design team decided early in the process that “future-proofing” the Training Center was a key priority. “We were leaning heavily toward a fiber-optic system to accommodate future bandwidth-intensive applications,” says Prado. Ultimately, they opted to pull three cables to every desktop in the Miller Training Center. Two AMP NETCONNECT Enhanced Category 5 unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cables were deployed, for voice and data, respectively; 62.5/125 micron multimode optical fiber cabling has also been terminated at the desktop.
“With so much fiber going in, patch panel management became a crucial consideration,” says Prado. That led the design team to investigate small form factor connectors-including the MT-RJ connector.” Prado continues, “The MT-RJ connector met every single criterion we were looking for.” Equally important, the MT-RJ connector features epoxy-less and polish-free fiber termination that lowers installation time and labor overhead dramatically.
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