Able Data installed over 7,000 Cat6a outlets and a 24-core OM3 fibre backbone at the new Paddington Green campus of City of Westminster College in London from March 2010 to January 2011. The installation included 60 equipment cabinets to provide remote monitoring of power and environmental conditions.

1. Able Data – Reference Sites
City of Westminster College
Summary New Data & Voice Cabling system at the new Paddington Green Campus
Contact Dino Michael
McLaren Construction Ltd, Curzon House, 7 Curzon Street, W1J 5HG.
Location City of Westminster College, 25 Paddington Green, London, W2 1LG
Contract £500k
Systems Excel Cat6a
Timescales March 2010 – January 2011
Contractor McLaren Construction Ltd
Consultant PTS
Project Paddington Green is COWC’s new campus facility opened in January
Description 2011. The College’s aim was to use cutting-edge architecture design which
takes full advantage of the key location in the borough. City of
Westminster College offers around 250 full-time and part-time courses to
over 7,000 students each year in the centre of London.
The project presented a very challenging cabling installation due to the fact
that all services, including cabling, had to to be installed under the floor.
Able Data installed more than 7,000 Cat6a outlets over the seven floors of
the new building. The installation also required the installation of a 24-core
OM3 diverse backbone linking 14 computer and patch rooms. The
installation included 60 x Copper B-Line equipment cabinets. Hawki
control units were used to provide centralised remote monitoring of both
the power and environmental conditions within the cabinets.
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Able Data Installations Plc
Tel: 01442 219580
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Bear Stearns International Ltd
Summary Bear Stearns 50th floor Data Centre & Floor Outlet Cabling
Contact Ronald Harman, Data Centres Manager
020 7516 4120
Location Canary Wharf Tower, London
Contract £350K
Systems Ortronics Cat6, Corning OM3 Fibre, Mighty Mo Racks.
Start & December 2006 – January 2007
Finish 2,000 Cat6 Outlets on the 50th Floor
Consultant N/A
Contractor Baker Stickland
Project As part of Bear Stearn’s rapid expansion in London, they had an
Description urgent requirement to fit out a new floor in the Canary Wharf tower.
Located on the 50th floor of the tower, this makes it the highest cabling
installation and Data Centre in Europe.
Able Data installed the floor outlets using the Ortronics 6-way outlet
boxes, offering a very neat packaged solution.
Able Data also built a small Data Centre on the same floor using
overhead inter-cabinet cabling and linked to the Bear Stearns 25th,
44th, 45th & 46th floors through Corning pre-terminated OM3 fibre.
Over the past six years Able Data has installed over 30,000 outlets for
Bear Stearns on other floors in the Tower.
Able Data Installations Plc
Tel: 01442 219580
www.ablecable.co.uk

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Reynolds Porter Chamberlain
Summary Cabling of RPC’s new London HQ
Contacts Neil Davidson, IT Manager Carl Stowe-Smith, Project Manager
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain Overbury
Tower Bridge House 77 Newman Street
St Katharines Way London
London, E1W 1AA W1T 3EW
Tel: 020 3060 6000 Tel: 020 7307 9083
Location Tower Bridge House, London
Contract £400K
Systems Beldon CDT Cat6
Period February 2006 – June 2006
Consultant Coleman Bennett International
Contractor Overbury
Project RPC, a leading UK law firm, consolidated their London operations
Description into the prestigious Tower Bridge House.
As part of the fit out of the new building, Able Data supplied and
installed 6,000 Cat6 outlets over four floors. These were installed in a
flood-filled under floor grid of 4-way outlet boxes, so that outlets can
be pulled through the floor and mounted on desk positions as required.
Able Data also installed an OM3 fibre backbone, using redundant
routes and supporting backup focal points to the building of a fault
tolerant network.
Able Data also installed an iTRACS cable management system,
providing facilities for RPC to manage their cabling infrastructure and
to support moves and changes. This included the iDiscovery module,
which allows RPC to dynamically discover and monitor ip network
devices on the network & to map these onto the cabling infrastructure.
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Able Data Installations Plc
Tel: 01442 219580
www.abledata.co.uk

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AllianceBernstein
Summary New structured cabling system for AllianceBernstein
Contacts Martyn Chadaway
CBI
19th Floor
30 St Mary Axe
London
EC3A 8AD
Tel: 020 7638 2000
Location 50 Berkeley Street, London
Contract £400K
Systems Tyco AMP Cat6
Period January 2006 – June 2006
Consultant Coleman Bennett International
Contractor Wates
Project AllianceBerstein is on of the largest publicly traded global asset
Description management firms in the world.
When AllianceBernstein were refurbishing their offices in Berkeley
Street, Able Data were contracted to build a new structured cabling
system. Spread over four floors, Able Data installed 5,000 new outlets
and over 4,000 computer room links. A tight programme required
completion in less than size weeks, achieved by using pre-termination
to pre-build cable assemblies off site and night working on site.
Each floor was flood wired back to two patch rooms per floor. All of
the patch rooms were connected to the main and backup computer
rooms through diversely routed Cat6 copper and OM3 fibre.
Able Data were subsequently awarded the contract to review the
cabling at Devonshire House, another AllianceBernstein site in
London.
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Able Data Installations Plc
Tel: 01442 219580
www.abledata.co.uk

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eBay Berlin
Summary Cabling of building in Berlin.
Contact Kevin Wenman
Protek Systems Ltd
Flexford Road,, North Baddesley, Southampton
SO52 9DF
Tel: 023 8026 7733
Location Europarc-Dreilinden, Berlin
Contract £350K
Systems SYSTIMAX GigaSPEED XL7 Cat6
Start & Finish Aug -Sep 2005
Consultant N/A
Contractor Direct
Project EBay required a new cabling system for its new J9 HQ building in
Description Berlin. This was to be based upon the eBay US model of cabling and
would form the 1st of a number of similar installations around Europe.
Able Data installed 2,000 SYSTIMAX outlets over five floors. As per
the eBay standard, these were implemented in groups of four on US
style faceplates. To fit in with the strong eBay logo branding, the
outlets were implemented using coloured jacks, yellow and green
(Cat6 for data) and blue and red (Cat5e for voice). These were cabled
back to the patch rooms through three cables, the voice outlets sharing
one cable.
As well as a number of local patch rooms, the project also involved
the installation of a data centre. All were built using CPI open frame
racks for patching and servers, including full overhead ladder racking.
The impressive effect was further enhanced in the data centre by the
installation of an overhead Panduit Fibrerunner system for the
containment of the fibre interconnections.
A crucial aspect of the project was the logistics of shipping specialist
materials from UK, US and other parts of Europe in short timescales.
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Able Data Installations Plc
Tel: 01442 219580
www.abledata.co.uk