Creation of Sandia's telecommunication cabling infrastructure

摘要

Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has adopted strategic, standards-based telecommunication technologies to deliver high-speed communication services to its research and development community. The architecture to provide these services specifies a cabling system capable of carrying high-bandwidth signals to each desktop. While the facilities infrastructure of Sandia has been expanding and evolving over the past four decades to meet the needs of this premier research and development community, the communications infrastructure has remained essentially stagnant. The need to improve Sandia's telecommunication cable infrastructure gave rise to the Intra-building Recabling Project (IRP). The IRP directed Sandia's efforts to modernize and standardize the communications infrastructure throughout its New Mexico campus. This report focuses on the development and implementation of the project's design considerations, concepts, and standards, as well as the adopted transmission media and supporting delivery subsystems.