NON-PICTURE PAST JOBS

ST PAULS SCHOOL, CONCORD NH
Up at Astronomy, which consists of several buildings and 4 Observatories, 12 strand, multimode fiber was installed to each Observatory and the Warming Hut.  Underground conduit and handholes were installed (by NCN) for the containment of the cable.  All fiber is using 3M termination connectors.

MACOM INC, LOWELL MA
All second floor CAT3 data locations were replaced by Cat5 AMP Plenum rated cable.  New data racks and patch panels were installed in the central DATA ROOM.  Besides the replacement of older cable this project is designed to element unneeded data closets located throughout the second floor.  The project consists of approx. 300 locations.

Brooks School Physical Plant Reconfiguration
This project consisted of replacing 4 aerial spans of campus cable infrastructure that fed 8 buildings with new underground service.  In anticipation of the aerial spans to be removed, new cable was placed through some existing manholes and a newly placed manhole system to feed the buildings with underground-only, service.  The project involved the re-routing of a 600, 100, and 50 pair copper cable and fiber cables with strand counts  of 96 and two, 12 strand fiber cables.  There were 4 copper splices and 1 fiber splice that were involved for the final cutover that November.  A future phase (scheduled for the summer of 2000) of the project includes the re-configuration of an additional section of 8 aerial spans to be removed.

Mass Audubon, Lincoln MA
This 2 stage project consisted of the placement of a fiber optic backbone connecting several of Drumlin Farm's buildings to the M.D.F. located in the basement of Gordon Hall, and upgrading the existing inside plant cabling. Prior to beginning the actual installation of fiber, we had to install pull-string throughout the underground condiut system. During this process we discovered a broken condiut & made the necessary repair. Three crushed hand-holes were removed and replaced (including one in a cow pasture). A 24 strand multimode cable was installed from Gordon Hall to (of all buildings) the chicken coop. Three 6 strand cables were then pulled from the chicken coop to the Gift Shop, the Education Center, and to the Farm Life Center, and then fusion spliced to 18 of the 24 strand cable in the chicken coop. The remaining 6 strands were terminated and left at the chicken coop in anticipation of an expansion of the network to include Drumlin Farm's 2 Barns. An additional 6 strand cable was also installed from Gordon Hall to the nature center and then 2 strands extended from there to the maintenance building. All fusion splices and terminations are housed in Corning wall mounted fiber enclosures. All buildings (except the chicken coop) were then outfitted with new cat5e voice/data cables and Ortronics cat5e jacks, patch panels, wire management, and wall mounted, hinged brackets. All 6 new M.D.F.s were built on flameproof backboards custom built for each application.

MASS AUDUBON, STONY BROOK

Mass Audubon's Stony Brook location is preparing for a telephone system upgrade. In addition to the phone upgrade, the facility had never had a computer network in place. The entire project consisted of the addition of 13 single voice/single data locations throughout the office and classroom areas of the facility as well as a dual voice/single data location in the customer service/reception area.

MASS AUDUBON, MOOSE HILL

 Mass Audubon's Moose Hill location is preparing for a telephone system upgrade. In addition to the phone upgrade, the facility had never had a computer network in place. The entire project will consist of the addition of 17 single voice/single data locations throughout the office and classroom areas of the facility as well as two dual voice/single data locations in the customer service/reception area. A single voice/single data location will also be added to the facility's maintenance building, which is separate from the main building. Due to the elevation of the facility, it is very susceptible to lightning strikes. Two outside plant cat5 cables will be installed with grounded lightning protection on both ends of each cable to connect the two buildings.