Boise State University October 10, 2016
Division 27: Global Communications Specification Document
Division 27 Master Specification for
Information Transport Systems and Spaces
Table of Contents
1 Section 27 10 01 Structured Cabling General Requirements
1.1 Scope
1.2 Approved Contractor
1.3 Submittals
1.4 Quality Assurance
1.5 Related Documents
1.6 References
1.7 Warranty
1.8 Summary
1.9 Definitions
1.10 System Description
1.11 Design Criteria
1.12 Warranty
1.13 Submittals
1.14 Definitions of Acceptance
1.15 Project Record Documents
1.16 Approvals and Substitutions
1.17 Workmanship
1.18 Service Continuity
1.19 Layout and Tolerances
1.20 Construction Review
2 Section 27 11 00 Communications Equipment Room Fittings
2.1 Summary
2.2 Telecommunications Backboards
2.3 Free Standing Equipment Racks
2.4 Wall Mounted Equipment Cabinet
2.5 Heavy Duty Wall Mount Rack
2.6 Free Standing Equipment Cabinets
2.7 Vertical Managers for Free Standing Equipment Racks
2.8 Horizontal Wire managers
2.9 Telecommunications Grounding Busbar
2.10 Wire Cable Tray (Basket Tray)
2.11 Installation Practices
2.12 Grounding and Bonding
2.13 Firestop
3 Section 27 13 00 Communications Backbone Cabling
3.1 Riser Cable
3.2 Campus Backbone Cable
3.3 Copper Cable Protection Units
3.4 Termination Blocks
3.5 Fiber Optic Termination Hardware
3.6 Fiber Optic Adapter Panels
3.7 Fiber Optic Connectors
3.8 Optical Fiber Termination Hardware
3.9 Backbone Cable Installation
3.10 Copper Termination Hardware
4 Section 27 15 00 Communications Horizontal Cabling
4.1 Summary
4.2 Station Cabling
4.3 Modular Jacks
4.4 Work Area Outlets
4.5 110 Terminations
4.6 Patch Panels
4.7 Execution: Work Area Outlets
4.8 Execution: Horizontal Distribution Cable Installation
4.9 Unshielded Balanced Twisted Pair Cable Installation Practices
4.10 Unshielded Balanced Twisted Pair Termination
4.11 Optical Fiber Cable Installation Practices
4.12 Testing Procedure
4.13 Testing and Acceptance
4.14 System Documentation
4.15 Test Results
4.16 Identification and Labeling
4.17 Final Acceptance and System Configuration
PART 1 SECTION 27 10 01 STRUCTURED CABLING GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
1.1 SCOPE:
This document describes general products and execution requirements relating to furnishing and installing Telecommunications Cabling for Boise State University. Backbone and horizontal cabling comprised of Copper and Fiber Optic, and support systems are covered under this document. All installations are warranted and shall be pre-registered with Ortronics/Superior-Essex before work begins as does Corning Fiber Systems when fiber optics are involved.
The Horizontal (workstation) Cabling System shall consist of a minimum of Category 5e+, 4-pair Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) Copper Cables to each work area outlet unless otherwise noted for specific locations. The cables shall be installed from the Work Area Outlet to the Telecommunications Room (TR) located on the same floor (unless otherwise specified), and routed to the appropriate rack serving that area and terminated as specified in this document.
All cables and related pathways, supports, terminations, and grounding hardware shall be furnished, installed, wired, tested, labeled, and documented by the Telecommunications contractor as detailed in this document.
Product specifications, general design considerations, and installation guidelines are provided in this document. Quantities of telecommunications outlets, communication room details, equipment racks, cable routing and outlet types will be provided as project specific information by bid specification and/or bid drawings. The contractor shall meet or exceed all requirements for any infrastructure system as detailed within this document. This document shall be referenced within a projects specific scope of work.
1.2 APPROVED CONTRACTOR:
SECTION 27 10 01 STRUCTURED CABLING GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
1.1 SCOPE:
This document describes general products and execution requirements relating to furnishing and installing Telecommunications Cabling for Oregon State University. Backbone and Horizontal cabling comprised of Copper and Fiber Cabling, and support systems are covered under this document. RCDD must be employed by the wiring contractor. All installations are warranted and shall be pre-registered with Ortronics before work begins as does Berk- Tek and Corning Fiber Systems when fiber optics are involved.
The Horizontal (workstation) Cabling System shall consist of a minimum of (1) Category 3 and (1) Category 6, 4-pair Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) Copper Cables to each work area outlet unless otherwise noted for specific locations. The cables shall be installed from the Work Area Outlet to the Telecommunications Room (TR) located on the same floor, and routed to the appropriate rack or backboard serving that area and terminated as specified in this document.
All cables and related pathways, supports, terminations, and grounding hardware shall be furnished, installed, wired, tested, labeled, and documented by the Telecommunications contractor as detailed in this document.
Product specifications, general design considerations, and installation guidelines are provided in this document. Quantities of telecommunications outlets, typical installation details, cable routing and outlet types will be provided as project specific information by bid specification and/or bid drawings. The contractor shall meet or exceed all requirements for any infrastructure system as detailed within this document. This document shall be referenced within a projects specific scope of work.
1.2 APPROVED CONTRACTOR:
The Telecommunications contractor submitting a response regarding a Boise State University Voice/Data Infrastructure RFP/RFQ must be an approved Ortronics Certified Installer Plus (CIP) for copper installations and Corning Network of Preferred Installers (NPI) for optical fiber installations. RFP/RFQ submissions from a single contractor not certified by Ortronics (CIP) and Corning (NPI) will not be accepted. A certificate from Ortronics and Corning must be submitted with RFP/RFQ responses in order for such submissions to be accepted. The Telecommunications contractor is responsible for workmanship and installation practices in accordance with the Ortronics CIP Program and Corning NPI.
It is the intent of Boise State University's Campus Infrastructure Standard to ensure that a contractor is an Ortronics CIP installer. Contractors must possess an Ortronics CIP and Corning NPI certification within the state of Idaho to qualify for RFP/RFQ responses.
1.3 SUBMITTALS:
Submit appropriate cut sheets and samples for all products, hardware and cabling as detailed in project specifications and drawings.
Work shall not proceed without Boise State University Telecommunication Services approval of the submitted items.
"OR EQUAL"
The products listed in this document represent the quality of product expected by Boise State, to include required certification of installers, testing results and warranty by the manufacturer. The contractor may request a substitution of an "or equal" materials, product or service specified within this telecommunications' master specification document. If the substitution request is provided 10 days prior to the Award Date, the request will be reviewed by the Operations Services group of OIT, Boise State to determine if the material, products or services are acceptable or not acceptable within 5 days. If the contractor submits less than 10 days prior, or anytime within 35 days after the award of contract,Operations Services group of OIT, Boise State will review the substitution request within 10 days of submittal. No substitution requests will be considered after more than 36 days after award of contract.
The request for substitution of an "or equal" item, must include; manufacturer, product identification number or name, manufacturer specification sheet(s), manufacturer installer education expectations (certification programs), and manufacturer warranties and/or enhanced warranties.
The proponent of a proposed equal item submitted under these procedures detailed above bears the burden of proof that the proposed item is equal to what is required in the bid specifications.
1.4 QUALITY ASSURANCE:
Telecommunications contractor shall be a company specializing in communication cabling installation. The contractor shall be manufacturer authorized to install and provide extended manufacturer warranties for Ortronics, nCompass, and Corning Optical Communications Systems infrastructures.
1.5 RELATED DOCUMENTS
A. This Section shall be used in conjunction with the following other specifications and related Contract Documents to establish the total general requirements for the project communications systems and equipment:
1. Contract Documents
2. Division 00 –Procurement & Contracting Requirements Group
3. Division1 – General Requirements
4. Section 012500 – Substitution Procedures
5. Section 270526 – Grounding and Bonding for Communications Systems
6. Section 270528 – Pathways for Communications Systems
7. Section 271100 – Communications Equipment Room Fittings
8. Section 271300 – Communications Backbone Cabling
9. Section 271500 – Communications Horizontal Cabling
10. Section 271600 – Communications Connecting Cords, Devices and Adapters
11. Division 26 00 00 –Electrical: Electrical Systems and Components
1.6 REFERENCES
A. All work shall be performed in accordance with the following Codes and industry Standards, unless noted otherwise:
- NEC® 2011: National Electric Code®, 2011.
- ANSI/TIA-568-C.0 - Generic Communications Cabling for Customer Premises.
- ANSI/TIA -568-C.1. Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard. Part 1: General Requirements
- ANSI/TIA-568-C.2: Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard
- ANSI/TIA-568-C.3: Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard, Part 3: Optical Fiber Cabling Components Standards
- ANSI/TIA-569-C: Commercial Building Standard for Telecommunications Pathways and Spaces
- ANSI/TIA-606-B. The Administration Standard for the Telecommunications infrastructure of Commercial Building
- ANSI/TIA-STD-607-B. Commercial Building Bonding and Grounding (Earthing) Requirements for Telecommunications
- TIA-758-B – Customer Owned Outside Plant Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard
- TIA-527 – Optical Power Loss Measurements of Installed Single Mode Fiber Cable Plant – OFSTP-7
- TIA-526-14-A - Optical Power Loss Measurements of Installed Multimode Fiber Cable Plant-OFSTP-14A.
- TIA-598-C – Optical Fiber Cable Color Coding (January 2005).
- BICSI-TDMM, Building Industries Consulting Services International, Telecommunications Distribution Methods Manual Revision 12 (use most current revision)
- Occupational Safety and Health Act Standards (OSHA)
- All other applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations.
1.7 WARRANTY
A. COPPER- The telecommunications contractor must be an approved Ortronics Certified Installer at a Plus tier (CIP, CIP-ESP). The Telecommunications contractor is responsible for workmanship and installation practices in accordance with the Ortronics Certified Installer Program. The certified contractor shall have 30% of their technicians trained on copper & fiber installations and testing by Ortronics; they also shall have at least 1 project manager successfully complete an Ortronics 2-Day Management Certification class. Ortronics/Superior Essex will extend an nCompass Limited Lifetime Static, Dynamic and applications warranty to the end user. Note: nCompass warranty requires that the channel be completed with Ortronics factory terminated copper and fiber optic patch cords. Approved product is listed on nCompass data sheets for each nCompass solution.
B. OPTICAL FIBER- The telecommunications contractor must be an approved Corning Network of Preferred Installers (NPI) member. The Telecommunications contractor is responsible for workmanship and installation practices in accordance with the Corning NPI program. Corning Optical Communications will extend a 25 year LANScape warranty to the end user.
1.8 SUMMARY
A. This Section includes general requirements specifically applicable to Division27.
B. Work Specifically Excluded from Project:
1. Incoming common carrier services.
2. Private Branch Exchange Systems.
3. Wide Area Network Systems.
4. Materials provided by the owner as identified in the Contract Documents.
C. The Contractor shall be responsible for:
1. Providing all additional materials, and the necessary labor and services required to ensure all components of the system are completely installed in accordance with the intent of the Contract Documents.
2. Furnishing and installing all incidental items not actually shown or specified, but which are required by good practice to provide complete functional systems.
3. Coordinating the details of facility equipment and construction for all specification divisions that affect the work covered under this Division.
Coordinating all activities with the overall construction schedule.
4. Developing bill of materials, perform material management and efficient use of the materials whether they are issued by the Contractor, the owner or purchased by the Contractor.
5. Ensure materials in excess of those required to complete the project are kept in their original condition and packaging for restocking.
6. Ensure project is properly registered for an nCompass and/or Corning LANScape warranty.
D. Intent of Drawings:
1. Communications plan drawings show only general locations of equipment, devices, raceways, cable trays, boxes, etc. All dimensioned locations and elevations are approximate. The contractor is responsible for the field coordination of communications work with the other trades prior to beginning work.
2. The contractor shall be responsible for the proper placement and routing of equipment, cable, raceways, cable tray, and related components; according to the Contract Documents and subject to prior review by contractor.
3. Refer all conflicts between Contract Documents to contractor for resolution.
1.9 DEFINITIONS
A. Active Equipment: Electronic equipment used to develop various WAN and LAN services.
B. Backbone: Collective term sometimes used to describe the campus and vertical distribution subsystem facilities and media interconnecting service entrances, communications rooms, and communications cabinets.
C. Bonding: Permanent joining of metallic parts to form an electrically conductive path which will assure electrical continuity and the capacity to conduct safely any current likely to be imposed on it.
D. Cabinet: Freestanding, floor-mounted modular enclosure designed to house and protects rack-mounted electronic equipment.
E. Cable Tray: Vertical or horizontal open supports usually made of steel, basket style construction that is fastened to a building ceiling or wall. Cables are laid in and fastened to the trays. A cable tray is not a raceway.
F. Campus: Grounds and buildings of a multibuilding premises environment.
G. Channel: The end-to-end transmission path between two points at which application specific equipment is connected; may include one or more links, cross-connect jumper and/or patch cords, and work area station cords. Does not include connection to active equipment.
H. Communications Equipment Room –See Telecommunications Room (TR)
I. Cross-Connect: Equipment used to terminate and tie together communications circuits.
J. Cross-Connect Jumper: A cluster of twisted-pair conductors without connectors used to establish a circuit by linking two cross-connect termination points.
K. Fiber Optic Distribution Unit (FDU): Cabinet with terminating equipment used to develop fiber optic cross-connect facilities.
L. Grounding: A conducting connection to earth, or to some conducting body that serves in place of earth.
M. Hinged Cover Enclosure: Wall-mounted box with a hinged cover that is used to house and protect electrical devices.
N. Horizontal: Pathway facilities and media connecting Telecommunications Rooms (TR) to Telecommunications Outlets (TO).