Cabling Infrastructure Guidelines

Determine if the telephone system type for this project is VoIP or Standard.

The Architect and Engineers shall design the telephone system to meet the specifications/requirements as defined in the District Telecommunication Infrastructure Technical Standards for that type; see section 1.02 for clarification of cabling needs.

VoIP telephones will use the data cabling system and thus will not require separate horizontal telephone cables and outlets. All telephone system jacks should be red and labeled appropriately. All data cables should be blue and labeled appropriately.

*The video contractor must work with District IT Group in establishing connections to the existing campus backbone cable system. A District IT Group representative must be present when the contractor makes the connection to the head-end.

¹Will initially be key-operated until access control head-end connectivity has been completed.
²Will not be operational until head-end is connected.
³Hardware type, location and installation to be coordinated with the campus/security vendor. The contractor MUST work with the campus/security vendor PRIOR to installation to procure input to ensure that the installed system will work as expected.
⁴These items must be coordinated with the Security Contractor by the campus.

It is the expectation of the District IT Group that the Architect will supply background drawings to the various members of the design team. It is very important for the proper design of the Information Technology Infrastructure that the drawings for the Electrical and Telecommunication Consultants contain furniture information. This will be needed by the Electrical and Telecommunication design team members to correctly locate power and telecommunication outlets

The Architect shall ensure that, wherever Design Engineers or Consultants for other disciplines require a separate wiring infrastructure to support their systems, those consultants coordinate their design and infrastructure requirements and efforts with the District IT Group. This includes but is not limited to design parameters such as cable type, cable color, use of supplemental or common pathways and support systems. For any Design Engineers or Consultants that require any communication connection of any sort from the building to any other place on or off the campus, the Architect will ensure that these Engineers/Consultants request and coordinate with the District IT Group for this connectivity. No other system cable(s) that is included in the building will be allowed to use pathway(s) under the District IT Group control without prior approval.

The Architect shall coordinate with the Design Engineers or Consultants for the support of any required video and audio visual (AV) systems. Of particular concern is that installation of the Video and AV systems do not conflict with installation or potential installation of Information Technology Infrastructure. There are to be no local switches that connect to the network. A local switch for a Dante audio or HDMI over IP per room is ok, but the local network may not connect to the campus network.

This document does not include a standard for AV cabling and only references AV installations as they may interfere with or affect the voice/data infrastructure.

As full participants in the design process, comments and requests submitted by the District IT Group must be incorporated into the reviewed documents in full for the next review of documents, or an explanation must be provided to the District IT Group, regarding the status of comments and requests. The District IT Group will postpone further reviews until all comments and requests have been addressed or incorporated into current documents and drawings.

At its option, is the District IT Group may either contract with a Telecommunication Consultant to perform its own communication design or request the Architect to retain the services of a Telecommunication Consultant. Regardless of the approach taken by the District IT Group, the Architect is expected to ensure that communication design input from a qualified Telecommunication Consultant is part of each phase of the design process. The Architect shall incorporate all comments from the Telecommunication Consultant into the various design document packages.