Structured Cabling

(a) Design Requirements

(1) The cabling infrastructure is to be designed by a Registered Certified Data Designer (RCDD) or professional engineer.

(b) Quality Requirements

(1) The conduits, pathways, room layout, and design are to comply with the TIA / EIA – 569 Commercial building Standard for Telecommunications Pathway and Spaces.

(2) The cabling design and installation will comply with the TIA / EIA – 568b.1, B.2 and B.3 Commercial Building Cabling Standards and Optical Fibre Cabling Standards.

(3) Testing of the fibre optic cable will meet the TIA / EIA 526-7, 14 standards for Optical Power Loss measurement of single mode and multimode fibre cable plant.

(4) The management and administration of the cabling plant will be done in

accordance with the TIA / EIA 606 standard – the Administration Standard for the Telecommunications infrastructure of Commercial Buildings.

(5) The grounding of the conduit pathways and components is to meet the TIA / EIA 607 Standard – Commercial Building Grounding and Bonding Requirements for Telecommunication.

(6) The structured cabling component will be of the same manufacturer. The system will be installed by a data contractor who is certified by one of the industry leaders consistent with the manufacturer’s best warranty. A BIX cross-connect patch field system matching existing in the Authorities adjoining the Diagnostic and Treatment Building (D&T) is preferred.

(c) Performance Requirements

(1) Project Co is to provide and install a complete category 6a structured cabling solution throughout the Facility. If a category better than category 6a is the latest standard at the time of ordering, it will be priced and presented to the Authority to determine if they want to utilize the latest standard.

(2) The cabling infrastructure does not differentiate on the type of end-use device that connects to it. The cabling infrastructure is to be universal and allow all forms of end-use devices access to the different system types.

(3) All cables are to terminate in communication rooms sized in accordance with the TIA / EIA standard. Maximum cable distance from room outlet to communication room will be 70 meters.

(4) Communication rooms are to serve the floor they are on and are to be placed to maximize the area they serve.

(5) Cable types to be unshielded twisted pair and fibre optic multimode and single mode. The bandwidth requirements and distance limitations will determine the type of cable installed.

(6) A star wired cabling approach will be utilized to wire all outlet locations back to communication rooms on each floor. Wire all communication rooms to a main communication room within the Facility and wire the main communication room back to Room DT-0111or the main telephone room at DT-0117, as appropriate.

(7) All fibre and copper cables, terminations, and outlets will be labelled as per the VIHA-South Island Electrical guidelines for Acute Care and the VIHA Network labelling standard, as applicable.

(8) All rooms that have or are anticipated to have data, phone, video, or other end- use devices will have cable system drops run back to the communication rooms. It is anticipated that only storage, clean/dirty supply rooms, and some corridors will not have cable system drops.

(9) Each workstation locations to have a minimum of (3) network cables per. All blue cables with white jacks. Generic configuration.

(10) All rooms that have cable system drops will have at minimum 10% additional drops, all conduit pathways will have minimum 100% spare capacity, all cable trays will have at minimum 100% space capacity and all communication rooms will have 200% spare capacity (indicating that each communication room must have enough room for 100% more cable drops including supporting networking devices and equipment). All cabling will be run in conduit and cable tray. (11) All ceiling spaces will have cable system drops for wireless network access

devices, information display systems, patient entertainment, equipment and patient tracking, patient monitoring and other ceiling mounted digital devices or systems.

(12) Fibre optic cabling will be utilized to connect each communication room to the main communications room and from the main communications room to the computer room at DT-0111. Both multimode and single mode fibre will be provided. Provide a minimum 48-multimode fibre, and 24 single-mode fibre to each communication/data room. Provide at minimum 200% spare fibre strand capacity in the demarcation/termination panel in each communication room. Fibre optic and Cat 6a cabling will also be provided for rooms requiring video streaming, such as teaching/training, and video conferencing rooms.

(13) All cable drops will be terminated at both ends. The proper flame spread rating will be provided for the cabling system.

(14) Supply and install Multi-conductor twisted pair telephone style riser cables as required for Public Telephones, medical equipment, and other such analogue equipment requirements. Cables will be run from the main telephone room (DT- 0117) to each communication/data room. Provide a minimum 100-pair cable terminated on a demarcation panel that has a minimum100% spare capacity in each communication room.

(15) Patch cables for all end-use devices will be provided in sufficient quantity to make each device operational plus 10% spare. Patch cable will allow complete connection from end to end.

(16) A cable management labelling software and electronic drawing system will be implemented by Project Co to track and manage the cable plant.

(17) Self-registration systems, electronic directional systems and patient education kiosks will be required in reception areas. Provide floor data outlets and floor power to connect these floor mounted systems as requested.

(18) Specialized systems requiring multiple drops will have sufficient drops at each location to ensure system operation.

(19) Project Co will design, survey, specify, procure, install, and maintain the physical infrastructure for the Structured Cabling System including cabling, wire

management, demarcation, equipment, and built-environment fit for use including environmental considerations, power, and backup (UPS) capacity.

(20) Provide cable for all public phones, minimum 1 per lobby area throughout the Facility and at least 6 for the retail space at grade.

14.10 Video Conferencing (see post-disaster specifications)