The school will be cabled using an extended star topology. Cabling from MDF to IDF will be multi mode fibre. Fibre cables will have spare fibres to cater for future bandwidth requirements, and maintenance patch outs. Cabling from IDF to workstations will be CAT 5e tested to confirm 100Mb/s throughput. Cabling to be installed to meet EIA/TIA 568/9 standards.

Additional conduit to be provided between Building 400, East & West and between Building 400 West and Building 300. Conduit provision will be the clients responsibility and will have draw ropes installed.

Each classroom will have a lockable cabinet installed in the location shown on the site plans with a (1) and will contain 4 hubs and patch panels. 4 x CAT5e cables to the IDF and 25 x CAT5e to the workstations will be terminated on the patch panels. Cabling between outlets and the cabinet will be installed in decorative trunking. Three cables to the IDF will be for the Curriculum LAN, and the 4^th for the Admin/staff LAN. Patch cords will connect the patch panel ports to the hub ports.

Each IDF will have a lockable cabinet. The cabinet will contain patch panels and an Ethernet switch with VLAN capability. The horizontal CAT 5e cables from the classrooms, and the vertical multi-mode fibres from the MDF will terminate on the patch panels. Patch cords will connect the patch panel ports to the switch ports. The switch will be configured for 2 x VLANs; Admin (A) and Curriculum (C). Any Workgroup servers and their UPS equipment will be installed in the cabinet.

The MDF will be co-located with the Telephone Company POP. The MDF will act as an IDF for the local catchment area. A Router providing connectivity between the VLANs and the WAN will be installed in the IDF/MDF cabinet along with a modem for dial-up connection to the router for diagnostic purposes.

Workgroup servers and associated UPS equipment will be installed in cabinet(s). For details of these servers, please refer to the section on servers.