BICSI NEWS MAGAZINE May/June 2013

The latest edition of BISCI Magazine features a cover story article titled “Cabling Sharing – A Unique, Innovative Category 7A Application” by Bob Carlson, VP of Marketing at Siemon.

Download a PDF of the Cable Sharing article.

The article is about applying standards-based Category 7 and Category 7A in the real world and, as Bob explains, “the benefit of interference-free cable sharing—the practice of running more than one application over different pairs of a twisted-pair copper channel as a means to reduce cost, simplify cable management and converge applications onto a single media type.”

In the article, Bob gives a City of Rock Hill, South Carolina, project as an example of a Category 7A cable sharing application.  The project involved Rock Hill Utilities Department installing 480 category 7A outlets in the administration building, 203 in the shop and 42 in the warehouse.

Category 7A Cable Sharing at the City of Rock Hill

Bob received this feedback from Justin Hobbs, who lead the project, and we are sharing it here with Justin’s permission:

Good Morning Robert!   My name is Justin Hobbs and I have had the pleasure of reading your column in the new edition of Bicsi News Magazine.  As I read the pages, wonderful memories were brought back of the installation mentioned in the article.  I was the PM/Lead Tech for the Cat 7a job for the City of Rock Hill.  I remember seeing the Tera line years ago at a Graybar Shrimparoo and thought “Wow!  Multiple devices on the same cable?  I’ll probably never see this in my lifetime.”  Nothing could have been further from the truth.  I remember when the project was put in my hands, the excitement, the anticipation, and the solid opinion it created between myself and the Siemon Company.  I met with Mrs. Roof and her associates for an initial demonstration and training session by Ron Symolon [Siemon], an old friend who did some training for another project while I was at my former employer.  I was amazed at how this system was designed and was equally confused as to why North America hadn’t adopted such a novel solution sooner.  During the installation process, I was equally privileged to work with Lyle Menard [Siemon] who guided me in the installation of the cabinetry associated with the system.  Needless to say, without further gilding the lily, this project remains as one of the crown jewels in my installation experience.

Justin W. Hobbs
IT Communications
Structured Cabling
CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Administration – Technical Support