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Reed Smith
Summary Installation of Data & Voice Cabling over 13 Floors
Contact Nick Bennett
Coleman Bennett International
19th Floor
30 St Mary Axe
London
EC3A 8AD
Location Broadgate Tower, London
Contract £400k
Systems Systimax GigaSPEED XL Cat 6
Installed Sept 2008 - Feb 2009
Consultant Coleman Bennett International
Contractor ISG
Project Reed Smith, one of the 15 largest law firms in the world with more than
Description 1,500 lawyers, have consolidated its London operations by relocating
from two legacy sites to a single new London Headquarters at Broadgate
Tower, London.
As part of the fit out Able Data were contracted to install 6,000 data
outlets distributed over thirteen floors. The installation time spent on site
was greatly reduced thanks to the use of pre-terminated cable looms,
which were manufactured and tested off site.
One of the key challenges to solve was the running of a fibre and copper
cable backbone over thirty floors from the IT computer room at the foot
of the building to the office floors.
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Autumn 2009 Page 1


Ashmolean Museum
Summary Cabling of Major New Building Extension
Contact Dr Jonathan Moffett
Ashmolean Museum,
Beaumont Street, Oxford
OX1 2PH
Contract £200K
Systems Molex Cat6
Installed Dec 2008 - Oct 2009
Builder BAM
Project The Ashmolean Museum, dating from the 17th century, is the oldest public
museum in the UK. Award-winning architect Rick Mather created a new
building that has doubled the Ashmolean’s gallery space and state-of-the-art
facilities. In November 2009, the £61M redevelopment opened to the public.
Able Data installed a structured cabling system, consisting of nearly a thousand
outlets, spread over 6 floors of the new building extension.
Each of the 13 remote patch cabinet locations had a fibre & copper backbone
linking to the Basement computer room. As well as the provision of the
computer cabinets at each location Able Data supplied & installed an APC UPS
& 3Comm Switch. The biggest challenge was the complexity and range of
cable routes. Whilst some outlets are located in low floor boxes, others for high
gallery points (overhead projectors etc) are at more than eight metres high.
Another challenge was fitting cabling around a complex building program;
many outlets could not be terminated or tested until after the exhibition cabinets
had been installed.
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Misys
Summary Cabling & moves into new headquarters building
Contact Phil Davies, IT Manager.
Misys
One Kingdom Street, Paddington. W2 6BL
Tel: 020 8879 1188
Location Paddington, London
Contract £300K
Systems Brand-Rex Cat6 & OM3, Cooper B-Line Cabinets
Start & Finish Feb – Aug 2008
Consultant April Management
Contractor Mastercraft Design
Project Misys were consolidating four regional offices into one new
Description headquarters building.

The new offices required 3,000 Brand Rex LSOH Cat6 outlets
installed over three floors, each floor being cabled from two patch
rooms. Able Data connected the patch rooms through diversely routed
OM3 fibre and voice backbones. In the main computer room, Able
Data installed Cooper B-Line cabinets, fitted with the Unite Hawki-2
intelligent power monitor and control products.

Able Data also managed the movement of 500 users into the new
building. Scheduled over five weekends, this included providing an
asset register of all of their computer equipment and a full moves
service into the new offices, including connection and test of all of the
desktop equipment.
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Ashburton Court
Summary Hampshire County Council Office HQ & Data Centre
Contact Bob Davis, Senior ICT Consultant
Mace
Atelier House, 64 Pratt Street
London
NW1 0LF
Tel: 020 7554 8000

Location Winchester City Centre
Contract £850K
Systems Nexans Lanmark-6 10G F/UTP, Nexans LANsense System, Excel Cat6
Installed Sep 2007 – May 2009
Consultant Mace
Contractor BAM
Project In 2009 Hamshire County Council (HCC) completed a major office
Description refurbishment of its HQ building at Ashburton Court. The conversion of
this 1960’s council office building to a naturally ventilated, low energy
facility included a heat recovery from the internal Data Centre as a source
of heat to service the office areas.
Able Data were contracted by BAM to install a data cabling system
providing 4,000 Cat6 outlets to the new offices and meeting rooms. Able
Data also won the contract to build the new Data Centre facility, completed
over eight weeks in Spring 2009. With 70 Prism server cabinets, 5,000
copper links and 2,000 fibre links, this new data centre has become HCC’s
primary Data Centre. The facility incorporates leading edge Data Centre
technologies to maximise space and power usage and to enable remote
operation. Functionality installed by Able Data included a Nexans 10G
Ca6a copper cabling system, a Nexans Intelligent Infrastructure
Management (IIM) system, Nexans remotely control Intelligent PDU’s and
a Data Centre wide Austin Hughes KVM system.
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Veolia Three Valleys Water
Summary Cabling of building
Contact Bob Davis, Senior ICT Consultant
Mace
Atelier House, 64 Pratt Street
London
NW1 0LF
Tel: 020 7554 8000
Location Hatfield Business Park, Hatfield
Contract £200K
Systems Molex PowerCat 6 UTP Cat6
Start & Finish Nov 2008 – Jan 2009
Consultant Mace
Contractor Como
Project Veolia Water (formally Three Valleys Water) consolidated their
Description offices into the new HUB building in Hatfield, a building to house 750
office staff.
Able Data were contracted by Como to install a 3,000 outlet Cat6 data
cabling system. Run over four floors, outlets were terminated in a grid
of 8-way consolidation points installed under the false floor. Desk
outlets were connected to the consolidation points through solid patch
lead connections.
The project was completed over a period of two months.
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Johnson & Johnson
Summary Johnson & Johnson Pinewood Building, Wokingham
Contact Paul Leinster
Johnson & Johnson
The Braccons
London Road
Bracknell
Berkshire
RG12 2AT
Location Nine Mile Ride, Wokingham, Berkshire.
Contract £300K
Systems Siemon 10G 6A F/UTP System
Installed Aug 2008 – Jan 2009
Consultant J&J Information Technology Services
Contractor Como
Project Johnson & Johnson, the global American pharmaceutical giant, built a
Description brand new three storey Building at Nine Mile Ride, Wokingham.
Able Data quoted and won the contract with Como to install 3,000 Data
outlets covering three floors, including the cabling of a state of art
Auditorium.
Able Data installed a high performance Siemon shielded Cat6a system,
tested to provide the full 10G performance over the full 90m required by
the installation. Most of the outlets were installed under the raised floor in
a grid pattern of 3-way outlets boxes, providing full flexibility for moves
and changes.
Able Data installed a single mode fibre backbone and fitted out a small
data centre with Minkel equipment cabinets.
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Fidelity Oakhill Data Centre
Summary New Data Centre at the Fidelity HQ
Contact John Brogan, Project Manager
Fidelity International
Oakhill House, 130 Tonbridge Rd
Hildenborough, Kent, TN11 9DZ
Tel: 01732 361 144
Location Tonbridge, Kent
Contract £2.5M
Systems Systimax Cat 6, LazrSPEED 300 OM3, iPatch, CPI Patch Frames
Installed Jul – Oct 2009
Project Fidelity International is a world-wide leading investment provider. As
Description part of their UK data centre consolidation strategy, Fidelity required a
new Data Centre facility at its HQ facility at Tonbridge.
Spread over two underground data halls and two office floors, the
project required the installation of 30,000 Cat6 copper links and 11,000
OM3 duplex fibre links to 300 Rittal cabinets and used more than
700km of cable. All links connect to a patch field of 80 x CPI patch
frames, each monitored with the iPatch Intelligent patch system.
The Data Centre was cabled overhead on three levels of CPI ladder
racking. One of the biggest challenges faced by Able Data was to
deliver the required high quality of cabling. To work out the optimum
cable routing schemes, Able Data built an offsite mock up of a row of
patch frames and the associated cables. To speed up installation whilst
minimising unsightly cable slack, Able Data single end pre-terminated
all copper and fibre links. The entire installation was completed over a
14 week period.
As well as building and configuring a 40,000 port iPatch system to
manage patching and monitor network devices, Able Data implemented
additional bespoke functionality tailored to Fidelity’s requirements,
including auto server provisioning.
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North Kent Police
Summary North Kent Police HQ
Contact Justice Support Service (North Kent) Ltd
Location Gravesend
Contract £200K
System Siemon System 6 UTP
Start & Dec 2007 – April 2008
Finish
Contractor Imtech Meica
Project North Kent Police new Head Quarters is a new build state of the art
Description 11,500 Metre2 four-storey building, which houses police officers, civilian
staff, evidential stores and includes a 40-cell custody suite.
Able Data installed 2,000 outlet Siemon Cat 6 LSZH data outlets across
the four floors and custody suite. The computer rooms, fitted with Dell
equipment cabinets, were interconnected through a Siemon OM3 fibre
and Cat6 copper backbone. Able Data also installed a TV distribution
system.
The biggest challenge of the installation was to install and protect the
cabling amidst the confusion of a large building site.
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Bucks New University (BNU)
Summary Installation of Data & Voice Cabling over 13 Floors
Contact Andy MacFarlane
BAM Construction
Centrium, Griffiths Way
St Albans, Herts. AL1 2RD
Location High Wycombe
Contract £150K
Systems Excel Cat6
Installed Apr 2009 – Dec 2009
Contractor BAM
Project Buckinghamshire New University’s camp has undergone an extensive
Description £60m programme of rebuilding in 2009. A new, high-tech learning
resources centre, known as the Gateway, forms the focal point of the
University’s technology-led learning experience.
Able Data were contracted by BAM to install an 1,800 Excel Cat6
UTP cabling system, spread over the six patch rooms on the six floors
of the new Gateway building extension. Able Data also installed an
Blown Fibre (OM3) & a voice link backbone cabling infrastructure
between each patch room and the main computer room on the 4th floor.
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Reynolds Porter Chamberlain
Summary Cabling of RPC’s new London HQ
Contacts Neil Davidson, IT Manager Carl Stowe-Smith, Project Manager
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain Overbury
Tower Bridge House 77 Newman Street
St Katharines Way London
London, E1W 1AA W1T 3EW
Tel: 020 3060 6000 Tel: 020 7307 9083
Location Tower Bridge House, London
Contract £400K
Systems Beldon CDT Cat6
Period February 2006 – June 2006
Contractor Overbury
Project RPC, a leading UK law firm, consolidated their London operations
Description into the prestigious Tower Bridge House.
As part of the fit out of the new building, Able Data supplied and
installed 6,000 Cat6 outlets over four floors. These were installed in a
flood-filled under floor grid of 4-way outlet boxes, so that outlets can
be pulled through the floor and mounted on desk positions as required.
Able Data also installed an OM3 fibre backbone, using redundant
routes and supporting backup focal points to the building of a fault
tolerant network.
Able Data also installed an iTRACS cable management system,
providing facilities for RPC to manage their cabling infrastructure and
to support moves and changes. This included the iDiscovery module,
which allows RPC to dynamically discover and monitor ip network
devices on the network & to map these onto the cabling infrastructure.
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Northumberland Hotel
Summary Mayflex, Excel Cat 5e - Northumberland Hotel
Contact Northumberland Hotel
The Club Quarters
Trafalgar Square
London
Location Northumberland Avenue
Contract Data, Telephone and RF Cabling
Systems Mayflex Excel Cat 5e
Start & November 2006
Finish May 2007
Consultant
Contractor Meica
Project
Description The Installation of Telephone, Data and RF cabling to over 1000
Hotel rooms.
The Club Quarters Trafalgar Square is located in a beautifully
restored building dating back to the 1880's, situated just off
London's historic Trafalgar Square which houses Nelson’s
Column, the church of St. Martin’s in the Fields and the National
Gallery.

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Penguin
Summary Penguin – London – Ortronics Cat6 – Outlets 2000
Contact Dean Moore
Coleman Bennett International
19th Floor
30 St Mary Axe
EC3A 8AD
Tel: 020 7638 2000
Location The Strand, London
Contract £400K
Systems Ortronics Cat6 & OM3
Period March 2007 - December 2007
Consultant CBI
Contractor Faithdean
Project This project was part of the Penguin Publishing refurbishment at
Description their headquarters in the Strand.
The project was spread over three
floors and involved the upgrade and
installation of a new Ortronics UTP
Clarity Category 6 structured cabling
system. Where possible, existing
equipment and cables was re-used.
A feature of the installation was the
use of the Ortronics Clarity Jak-Pak 6-way outlet boxes to offer a
very neat desk end solution.
The project also included installation of the highly popular Mighty
Mo 6 open patch frames.
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London Transport Museum
Summary Structure Cabling & AV Cabling
Location Covent Garden
Contract £100K
Systems Excel Cat 5e UTP
Start & Finish February 07 - November 07
Contractor Imtech Meica
Project The new museum in Covent Garden opened in November 2007 after a
Description two year £22M redesign project. The Museum tells the story of the
development of London, its transport system and the people who
travelled and worked on them over the last 200 years.
Able Data installed a structured flood wired system throughout the
Museum and Gift shop. This involved installing cables at large heights
in order to reach all parts of the museum. Different sections were also
interconnected with a fibre backbone.
Able Data also installed a network of specials AV links to support the
equipment to enable visitors to enjoy a full vision and Audio
commentary as they walk around the museum.
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Fidelity Investments
Summary Cabling of Fidelity’s Date Centres
Contact Dexter Baird
Oakhill House, 130 Tonbridge Road
Hildenborough, Kent
TN11 9DZ
Tel: 01732 777627
Location Acton Colt Data Centre, London
Global Switch 2 Data Centre, London
Contract £650K (Total)
Systems SYSTIMAX GigaSPEED XL Cat6
SYSTIMAX LazrSPEED OM2, OM3
Start & Jan 2003 – May 2003
Finish Nov 2005 – Dec 2005
Jul 2006
Project In three separate projects, Able Data have cabled Fidelity’s London
Description based Data centres.
In the first project Able Data supplied and installed thirty data
cabinets and the required cabling infrastructure. The initial installation
of 4,000 copper links was completed within four weeks. All RJ45
patch panels are of the Avaya Fleximax variety, where standard outlet
modules are clipped into the panel.
The second and third projects were similar, but on a larger scale. The
third project at Global Switch involved 10,000 links, installed over a
period of one month, made possible by the use of off site pre-
termination,
As part of the initial project, Able Installed also 1,000 10Gbit OM2
fibre links, terminated onto SC connector outlets. The later projects
used LC connectors.
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AllianceBernstein
Summary New structured cabling system for AllianceBernstein
Contacts Martyn Chadaway
CBI
19th Floor
30 St Mary Axe
London
EC3A 8AD
Tel: 020 7638 2000
Location 50 Berkeley Street, London
Contract £400K
Systems Tyco AMP Cat6
Period January 2006 – June 2006
Contractor Wates
Project AllianceBerstein is on of the largest publicly traded global asset
Description management firms in the world.
When AllianceBernstein were refurbishing their offices in Berkeley
Street, Able Data were contracted to build a new structured cabling
system. Spread over four floors, Able Data installed 5,000 new outlets
and over 4,000 computer room links. A tight programme required
completion in less than size weeks, achieved by using pre-termination
to pre-build cable assemblies off site and night working on site.
Each floor was flood wired back to two patch rooms per floor. All of
the patch rooms were connected to the main and backup computer
rooms through diversely routed Cat6 copper and OM3 fibre.
Able Data were subsequently awarded the contract to review the
cabling at Devonshire House, another AllianceBernstein site in
London.
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eBay Berlin
Summary Cabling of building in Berlin.
Contact Kevin Wenman
Protek Systems Ltd
Flexford Road,, North Baddesley, Southampton
SO52 9DF
Tel: 023 8026 7733
Location Europarc-Dreilinden, Berlin
Contract £350K
Systems SYSTIMAX GigaSPEED XL7 Cat6
Start & Finish Aug -Sep 2005
Consultant N/A
Contractor Direct
Project EBay required a new cabling system for its new J9 HQ building in
Description Berlin. This was to be based upon the eBay US model of cabling and
would form the 1st of a number of similar installations around Europe.
Able Data installed 2,000 SYSTIMAX outlets over five floors. As per
the eBay standard, these were implemented in groups of four on US
style faceplates. To fit in with the strong eBay logo branding, the
outlets were implemented using coloured jacks, yellow and green
(Cat6 for data) and blue and red (Cat5e for voice). These were cabled
back to the patch rooms through three cables, the voice outlets sharing
one cable.
As well as a number of local patch rooms, the project also involved
the installation of a data centre. All were built using CPI open frame
racks for patching and servers, including full overhead ladder racking.
The impressive effect was further enhanced in the data centre by the
installation of an overhead Panduit Fibrerunner system for the
containment of the fibre interconnections.
A crucial aspect of the project was the logistics of shipping specialist
materials from UK, US and other parts of Europe in short timescales.
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APAX
Summary Molex Cat 6 – OM3
Contact Stephen Grabiner
020 7872 6300

Location 33 Jermyn Street
London
SW1Y 6DN

Contract 130k
Systems Molex
Start & 6 Month Project
Finish
Consultant CBI
Contractor ISG
Project
Description Able Data Installations installed a Molex Cat 6 & OM3 Fibre Optic
cabling systems over 6 floors of the new London headquarters
Building of Apax and Partners in Jermym Street.
Apax Partners is a global private equity group that invests in five
industry sectors. Founded more than 30 years ago, the firm uses its
sector expertise, deep local presence and broad global platform to
create value for its stakeholders. The history of Apax is Interwoven
with the development of the private equity assest class on both sides
of the Atlantic.

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Commerzbank Infrastructure Support
Summary Infrastructure support for Commerzbank
Contact Russel Sargent, Data Centre
Manager
Commerzbank, 30 Gresham Street
London. EC2P 2XY
Tel: 020 7623 8000
Locations • 30 Gresham Street London
• Watford Data Centre
• Camberley Data Centre
Contract £500K per annum
Systems Siemon 10G System with MAPIT IIM & iTRACS
Start 1988 - Ongoing
Project Able Data have been supporting Commerzbank’s (formally Dresdner
Description Kleinwort) infrastructure for over twenty years. The focus of the service has
always been on fast response and quality of service.
With 50,000 managed ports in London and more than 60,000 managed ports
at the two Data Centres at Camberley and Watford, the facility is probably
amongst the largest IIM installations in Europe.
Able Data provides a permanent site based team to manage the infrastructure
and to plan & implement moves and changes for both the uses and the
computer servers. Duties include:
• 7:00 – 17:00 daily cover
• Isolating and fixing infrastructure problems as they are reported
• General administration of the iTRACS system & maintenance of the
MapIT Intelligent hardware
• Management & use of iDiscover to monitor network equipment and track
assets
• General maintenance of patch frames throughout the buildings
• Patching new services
• Planning & installation of infrastructure upgrades
• Using iTRACS to plan moves and changes
Able Data is a Siemon approved installer and an iTRACS iPSP.

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Debenhams
Summary Data Cabling for new and refurbished Department Stores
Contact Peter Craven, Project Manager.
Bedford Road, Park Street, Taunton,
Somerset, TA1 4DB
Tel: 01823 364 303
Location Various retail sites including Hemel Hempstead, Thanet, Woking,
Portsmouth & Slough.
Contract £150K
Systems SYSTIMAX PowerSUM Cat5e & Excel Cabinets
Start & November 2004 (Thanet)
Finish March 2005 (Portsmouth, Woking, Sough)
April 2005 (Hemel Hempstead)
Consultant N/A
Contractor Various
Project Debenhams has an ongoing program of opening new stores. In each
Description they install a structured cabling system to serve the shop floor tills and
pay points as well as the general offices. It is Debenhams policy to use
SYSTIMAX PowerSUM cabling throughout.
By the nature of shop premises, most of the cabling work is in the
ceiling void, requiring the extensive use of platforms.
Each store floor will normally have its own cabling cabinet. These
cabinets are joined to the master cabinet via either fibre or copper
interlinks, depending on the distances involved.
Part of this project involved the fast track conversion of three Alders
stores to Debenhams in March 2005. This involved the use of three
separate cabling teams working on the different sites.
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