CASE STUDY
By Excel Networking
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with a high quality and reliable
network in the Aerospace Valley
TMA Toulouse is the future international district south-east
of Toulouse, related to aeronautics, airspace and embedded
systems. Not far from the site’s location is the Espace Cl.ment
Ader, which was delivered in 2014. This was the first building
of what now constitutes the Montaudran Aerospace campus,
and featured Excel products in its systems installation.
This flagship project of TMA Sud whose construction began
in early 2016 and ended earlier this year in April 2018, was
estimated at a value of € 9.5 million excluding tax.
To redevelop the former site of A.ropostale Toulouse, with
optimum performance to exceed expectations of the staff
and visitors to the site. The main goal was to install top
quality products to create a complete end-to-end networking
solution to meet the needs of those who rely on the
infrastructure.
The right product
The nature of the business operations in this project meant
that it was essential for the chosen solution to boast end-
to-end capability, high quality, reliability and simplicity to
install. The Excel solution was chosen for these reasons. With
accolades across a diverse spectrum of vertical markets across
France and the wider world, the installer and end-user could
rest assured that the Excel range was suitable for the purpose.
The selected products needed to be flexible and scalable
to meet the changing requirements of such a vast project,
which Excel was. What’s more, the availability of stock was a
crucial part of this installation. Having a local stock holding
of required products meant that delivery timescales were
adhered to and the project wasn’t fazed by delays, further
helping to achieve a finished solution before the deadline.
Design and installation
Coris Networks, an Excel Distribution Partner and specifier
for this project, designed the complete infrastructure solution
to meet the requirements of TMA Toulouse. It was crucial
that the redevelopment of the site and the delivery of a top
performance cabling infrastructure solution was within the
defined timescales, ready for a smooth transition for all staff
and visitors to the site.
Over 100 kilometres of Excel Category 6A screened S/FTP
cabling was chosen as it takes the performance capabilities of
copper infrastructure to new levels, which was a requirement
for this project. The cable is designed to exceed the ISO/IEC,
TIA and CENELEC for Category 6A component requirements,
delivering high performance over distances of up to 90
metres, which is essential for a site such as this, which spreads
across almost 350,000 m2.
The new system supports several applications including
10GBASE-T, adding to the future-proofing nature of the
installation. This product also lends itself to any high
definition bandwidth-hungry video footage requirement,
making it perfect for this project, which has 500m of the
1.8km track as a classified zone, where there are multiple
CCTV cameras feeding from the cabling infrastructure. Each
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