When it comes to any IT project, sometimes it takes a little luck to bring a project in on-time and on-budget. For the cabling infrastructure of the Century Bank project, it was lucky that ADC cable was specified—lucky because the choice of cable averted a two week project delay and thousands of dollars of unplanned expense. | O CHALLENGE When it comes to any IT project sometimes it takes a little luck to bring a project in on-time and on-budget. For the cabling infrastructure of the Century Bank project it was lucky that ADC cable was specified lucky because the choice of cable averted a two week project delay and thousands of dollars of unplanned expense. PROJECT HITS A SNAG LU en Century Bank and Trust is a state-chartered full-service commercial bank operating 22 full-service branches in the greater Boston area. The construction project was a new 50 000 square foot headquarters and new main office branch located in Medford Massachusetts. The project plan called for inch conduit pipe to be installed in the ground floor concrete slab for routing of horizontal cable to workstations. Long after the floor was poured the electrical contractor waived a red flag there was no way to pull the specified eight copper cables through the installed conduit. At that time the project team was resolved to sawing the concrete floor to install larger conduit an expensive and time-consuming operation that would put the project behind schedule. Luckily for Century Bank the solution was already in hand. CASE STUDY AirEs TECHNOLOGY DETERMINES WINNING BID In selecting the cabling solution for the project long before ground was broken analysis of several cabling vendors settled upon the ADC AirEs cabling solution. It was determined that AirEs cable offered superior performance at a fair price. The name AirEs Air Enhanced System defines the competitive advantage of using air as conductor insulation. AirEs technology is used for all ADC Category 5e Category 6 and CopperTen 10 Gbps cable. One of the fundamentals of producing high-quality cable is good Dielectric Constant of cable insulation material. Lower Dielectric Constant of insulation means better resistance to breakdown when an electrical field is applied stronger signal strength. In terms of Dielectric Constant the best cable insulation available is air.
