Cat6A copper
Twisted pairs, up to 100 m per link and 10 Gbit/s. The category BBRS deploys to outlets and Wi-Fi 6/6E access points, with their PoE power.
Practice 01 · Design & Deployment
Network cabling and optical fibre: every link certified.
The fastest Wi-Fi stops at the first badly pulled cable. BBRS designs, pulls, labels and certifies a building's copper cabling and optical fibre, with the electrical infrastructure that powers it, and measures every link before an access point goes up.
- 01 Cat6A copper
- 02 Optical fibre
- 03 Electrical infrastructure
Definition
What is network cabling?
Network cabling, or structured cabling, is the set of physical links in a building, copper and optical fibre, that connect the outlets, patch panels, switches and Wi-Fi access points. It is designed to the standards, labelled, and certified by measuring every link. It is the foundation that sets the throughput of the whole network, wired and wireless alike.
- Copper, to desks and access points
- Cat6A twisted pairs between the technical room and every outlet or access point. The same cable carries data and PoE power for Wi-Fi access points, cameras and phones.
- Fibre, between technical rooms
- Multimode or single-mode for runs between floors, between buildings and to the network core, wherever distance or throughput exceed what copper allows.
- Racks and patching
- Patch panels, racks, cable trays and patch cords: the organisation that keeps the network readable, and changeable without undoing everything.
- Labelling
- Every link carries an identifier, recorded on the plan and in the certification report. An outlet is found without searching, years later.
- Electricity
- UPS units, distribution, earthing, redundancy: power for the network equipment is part of the package, not a separate job.
Copper or fibre
What are the different types of network cable?
Two families, chosen by distance, throughput and environment. The right answer is almost always both, each in its place.
Multimode fibre
For short, very-high-throughput runs: between floors, between racks in the same building. A few hundred metres at most.
Single-mode fibre
For long distances: between the buildings of a campus, to a remote site or to the carrier. Several kilometres without a repeater.
Certification
An installed cable is not a certified link.
Pulling a cable is one trade; proving it meets the standard is another. Every link is measured with the reference instruments, and the result is handed over, link by link.
- 01 Copper certification
- Fluke DSX-8000: every Cat6A link tested to the standard (length, attenuation, crosstalk, delay), with a verdict and the matching report.
- 02 Fibre certification
- CertiFiber Pro for end-to-end loss; a JDSU OTDR to locate on the fibre every splice, connector or bend that degrades the link.
- 03 Tracing and checking
- Fluke IntelliTone Pro to identify live ports and trace cables; NOYES SMLP for optical power and attenuation.
- 04 Labelling and documentation
- Identifiers on every outlet, cord and panel, recorded in the technical documentation handed over at acceptance.
- 05 What the Wi-Fi gets out of it
- The report gives the available PoE budget and the uplink throughput per technical room: the two figures that cap what an access point can deliver. On a building that is already cabled, this is the wired part of the Wi-Fi audit and site survey.
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Projects delivered since 2004 across Morocco and Europe
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Copper category deployed, outlets and access points
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Certification instruments: DSX-8000, CertiFiber Pro, OTDR
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Disciplines under one project owner
In a complete project
Cabling is sized with the Wi-Fi, not after it.
An access point is never faster than the link that feeds it. In a BBRS project the cabling, the electrical infrastructure and the wireless network are designed together, under one point of accountability: that is business Wi-Fi. On a building that is already cabled, the Wi-Fi audit and site survey starts by certifying what is there.
Frequently asked
Four questions before the first cable is pulled.
The ones that come up when a company plans its network cabling in Morocco.
- What is network cabling?
- The physical links, copper and optical fibre, that connect a building's outlets, patch panels, switches and Wi-Fi access points. Designed to the standards, labelled and certified link by link, it sets the maximum throughput of the whole network, wired and wireless alike.
- What are the different types of network cable?
- Two families. Twisted-pair copper (Cat6A today) connects outlets and access points up to 100 m and also carries PoE power. Optical fibre connects the technical rooms: multimode for short, high-throughput runs inside a building, single-mode for long distances between buildings or to a remote site.
- Copper or optical fibre: how do you choose?
- By distance and throughput. Up to 100 m to a desk or an access point: Cat6A copper, which also powers the device. Between floors, between buildings or to the network core: fibre. Most buildings combine the two, and the choice is made on the plan, before the quote.
- Who installs network cabling for a company in Morocco?
- An integrator that designs, pulls, labels and certifies every link with reference instruments, and hands over the report. BBRS Consulting, based in Tangier and an Aruba (HPE) partner, delivers the copper and fibre cabling, the electrical infrastructure and the Wi-Fi of one project under a single point of accountability.