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The CapeTown branch of local infrastructure provider BT-SA has been awarded a contract to install
all the Krone Category 6A cabling reticulation for 2 Military Hospital over the next two years.
The project also includes a 10 Gig fibre backbone cabling throughout the hospital and outlying
buildings. Backbone cabling is the inter-building and intra-building cable connections in struc-
tured cabling between entrance facilities, equipment rooms and telecommunications closets.
Cabling reticulation will be installed in the main Military Hospital, the new admin and logis-
tics building as well as the
nurses and officers home.
The installation will also
include all cabinets, data
point, voice points, email
and internet points.
Donovan Snyders, who
joined BT-SA nearly 10 years
ago as general manager and
nowmanages the CapeTown
office in Montague Gardens,
says the project is 100% on
schedule.
“The 2 Mil project commenced in April this year and are we are currently busy in the main
hospital and outside buildings.The roll-out is done in phases, floor by floor,” he says.
BT-SA Infrastructure sales executive Nicole Dittrich joined the Cape Town team in January
this year. She has been in the ICT industry for the past 22 years and oversees full data centre
designs including backup power, air flows, construction, access control, fire detection and sup-
pression and monitoring.
Dittrich currently heads up the fibre backbone roll-out together with the main contractor Su-
perway Construction (Pty) Ltd. She says the standards of this particular project are very high.
"Our client, SA Military, requires that we follow all SITA’s quality and standards which includes
many inspections and controls.” “We have an exceptional team onsite which adjust to crisis
and last minute expectations like professionals. They work long hours to make sure the client's
expectations are achieved in the timeframes, even if they are under challenging circumstance,"
she explains.
Superway Construction’s Mechanical and Electrical Site Agent Andrè Fouchè says no other
contractor besides BT-SA may install fibre backbones at 2 Military Hospital during the duration
of the contract. "Only BT-SAmay install fibre backbones due to their understanding of the quality
and standard requirements onsite and have therefore installed all fibre reticulation requirements
for all contractors that require fibre onsite.”
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Solar system is without a doubt the fastest growing power generation technology in the world.
The advancement in the design of solar industry has increase dramatically. However, cable
protection is often overlooked both during design and installation of solar.
The environments in which cable systems are being installed today are becoming more chal-
lenging. Cables are being exposed to extreme temperatures, chemicals, abrasion, and extensive
flexing. In addition, lack of cable protection affect the performance of the solar, durability and
increase the cost of maintenance. In light of this Mogorosi Communications is organising a ca-
ble protection technologies summit on the 27 and 28 October 2016 in Sunninghill.The summit
will feature speakers from universities, researcher centres and industry experts to discuss solar
cable technologies, financing of solar projects and solar industry in South Africa.The objective
of the summit is to put emphasis on the use of available protection strategies as well as discover
innovative cable protection products which can protect without hindering the carrying capacity
of cables.The delegates will have an opportunity to discuss the effects of cable protection, chal-
lenges faced in the protection of in solar systems, technological solutions as well as the extent
of their implementation.
Enquiries: Portia Mnuna.Tel. +27 (0) 11 325 2485 or email
10 Gig fibre backbone for 2 Military Hospital
Cable protection technologies summit
27, 28 October 2016, Sunninghill, Johannesburg
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