Fibre and structured cabling

The Veer Narmad South Gujarat University was on Cat 5 cabling. For its new premises it wanted to provide the MCA and Computer Science departments with 100 Mbps cabling which meant that it was time for Cat 6. The university had to connect 26 buildings housing 18 departments. It also meant that 2,000 regular students and 150 affiliated colleges were to be brought onto the information highway. All the buildings of the university including the hostel and the sports complex are now connected to the central computer centre through a 100 Mbps fibre backbone (single mode fibre). The set-up can be upgraded to 10G. Fibre covers an area of eight km across the campus. Departments are hooked up with Cat 6 structured cabling.

Passive components include 8,500 metres of single mode steel tape armoured fibre with Lightguide Interconnection Unit, patchcords and so on. A stackable 10/100 Mbps Layer 2 switch designed specially for departmental connectivity provides 24 10/100 Mbps ports, one Gigabit Interface Converter port for server or fibre backbone connection, and scalable expansion through switch-stacking of up to 13 units in a ring topology.