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NCDIT »   Services »   Structured Cabling

Structured Cabling

Service Description

Structured Cabling Services (SCS) offers customers convenient access to structured cabling installation, design, and project management. Cabling infrastructures provided with this service enable the transport of data, voice, and video over various copper and fiber optic media for government organizations, ranging from typical office/cubicle environments to data centers to interconnection of buildings in campus environments.

SCS provides a comprehensive approach to ensure a high quality, standards-based cabling infrastructure in adherence with the State of North Carolina's STS1000 Telecommunications Wiring Guidelines and TIA/EIA (Telecommunications Industry Association/Electronics Industry Alliance) Telecommunications Building Wiring Standards. Structured Cabling Services consists of a team of BICSI RCDD (Building Industry Consulting Service International, Registered Communications Distribution Designer) professionals dedicated to providing the best solutions and services to fit each customer's unique needs.

Benefits

By choosing our Structured Cabling Services, a customer can expect to benefit from the following:

  • Easy access to professional structured cabling installations
  • Structured Cabling Services team of BICSI RCDD design expertise
  • Cabling installations that meet North Carolina's currently adopted National Electrical Code, BICSI best practices and TIA/EIA Telecommunications Building Wiring Standards specifications
  • Certified cable plant with test results documentation
  • Installations performed in adherence to manufacturers' and standards-based best practices
  • One-year warranty on materials and installation labor

Installations are performed by trained service technicians using the latest techniques in design, materials, and installation to ensure the flexibility of the customer's infrastructure to meet changing resources and future technology needs.

Customers

We have the expertise to design and install a variety of products and services for our customers. Structured Cabling Services staff has placed out for competitive bid and managed innumerous large customer projects.

Current customers include:

  • State executive branch agencies
  • County, city and local governments
  • Community colleges
  • Universities
  • K-12 public schools
Depending on the size and scope of your cabling needs, projects can fall into the following categories:

CISP - Convenience Inside Plant Projects

  • Utilize fixed unit prices based on the type of cables, termination methods, cable media and other factors. This projects are typically small and depend on customers' needs.

COSP - Convenience Outside Plant Projects

  • Utilize fixed unit prices based on in ground or aerial components, such as trenching, vibratory plowing, directional drilling and the types of cables, termination methods and cable media. This projects typically are small and depend on customer needs.

BISP - Bid Inside Plant Projects

  • Consist of larger inside plant projects with complex cabling solutions for inside plant installations or data centers. After detailed consultations with the customer, these types of projects are individually bid using SCS pre-qualified vendors. Once requirements are documented, securing a custom bid may take as little as three weeks, including a detailed walkthrough with pre-qualified vendors.

BOSP - Bid Outside Plant Projects

  • Consist of larger outside plant projects that contain in-ground or aerial components such as trenching, vibratory plowing, directional drilling and the types of cables, termination methods and cable media. This projects typically are complex. After detailed consultations with the customer, these types of projects are individually bid using SCS pre-qualified vendors. Once requirements are documented, securing a custom bid may take as little as three weeks, including a detailed walkthrough with pre-qualified vendors.

Design/Consulting Services

  • Consist of a billable rate per hour, available for RFP and scope of work reviews, creating design specifications, performing project management and inspections and providing expertise in inside plant and outside plant design, wireless and fiber redundancy.

Invoice Options

  • Standard invoicing is performed using line-item billing on customers' phone bills when available.

How Do We Charge?

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Next Steps

Start early! Structured cabling is one of the most important steps to ensure your IT project is completed on time and within budget.

Step 1:

General Questions:
Contact the Service Desk at 1-800-722-3946 or local 919-754-6000.

Step 2:

Cabling requests:

  • Submit a Cabling Service Request form (formerly TO-4 Service Request) to initiate a cabling project.
  • Upload the completed form to NCDIT Service Portal.
  • An SCS or vendor representative will contact you upon receipt of the form to determine your specific needs.

Design/Consulting requests:

  • Submit a Cabling Service Request form (formerly TO-4 Service Request) to initiate a project consultation.
  • Upload the completed form to NCDIT Service Portal.
  • An SCS or vendor representative will contact you upon receipt of the form to determine your specific needs.

Emergency repairs and installations:

  • Initiate a Service Request ticket by contacting our Service Desk, available 24/7, at 919-754-6000 or open a new ticket in the NCDIT Service Portal.
  • A representative will contact you to discuss your specific needs and schedule repairs.

View Technical Details

Files

cabling-service-request-form.docx

Cabling Service Request Form

Microsoft Word • 37.43 KB - August 31, 2021
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cabling-service-request-form.pdf

Cabling Service Request Form

PDF • 208.85 KB - August 31, 2021
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