Requirement on Campus Fiber and cabling Maintenance
1.
Fiber Maintenance
The fiber maintenance should cover both preventive and corrective activities.
Preventive maintenance should include optical fiber test, regular cleaning with
optical fiber cleaning tools on the optical transceivers and optical connectors. The
objective of preventative maintenance is to keep the network operating in a stable and
normal status, preventing the emergence of pressure points and abnormal losses. The
objective of corrective maintenance is to resume the connectivity of network after the
fiber cable is damaged or broken. The on-site repair should include splicing, termination
of fiber cable or laying a new fiber cable.
1.1 Scope of Fiber Maintenance
The scope of maintenance covers indoor fiber and outdoor fiber.
1.1.1
Indoor Fiber Maintenance:
Indoor fibers include:
 Central Teaching Building : 17 pieces of 12-core Single mode Indoor
Fiber.
 Administration Building : 18 pieces of 12-core Single mode Indoor Fiber,
1 piece of 6-core Single mode Indoor Fiber.
 Library : 21 pieces of 12-core Single mode Indoor Fiber, 2 pieces of 6 core
Single mode Indoor Fiber.
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 Research Building N24 : 16 pieces of 12-core Single mode Indoor Fiber,
1 piece of 6 core Single mode Indoor Fiber.
 Research Building N22: 14 pieces of 12-core Single mode Indoor Fiber,
1 piece of 6 core Single mode Indoor Fiber.
 Research Building N21: 36 pieces of 12-core Single mode Indoor Fiber,
30 piece of 6 core Single mode Indoor Fiber.
 UM Guest House: 18 pieces of 12-core Single mode Indoor Fiber,
2 pieces of 6 core Single mode Indoor Fiber.
 UM Sports Complex: 7 pieces of 12-core Single mode Indoor Fiber,
1 piece of 6 core Single mode Indoor Fiber.
 Faculty of Science and Technology : 17 pieces of 12-core Single mode
Indoor Fiber.
 Faculty of Health Science : 18 pieces of 12-core Single mode Indoor Fiber.
 Postgraduate House : 47 pieces of 12-core Single mode Indoor Fiber.
 College 1 : 60 pieces of 12-core Single mode Indoor Fiber.
 College 2 : 46 pieces of 12-core Single mode Indoor Fiber.
 College 4 : 16 pieces of 12-core Single mode Indoor Fiber.
 Staff Quarters :
16 pieces of 12-core Single mode Indoor Fiber.
 Faculty of Law, Education and Design : 24 pieces of 12-core Single mode
Indoor Fiber,6 pieces of 6 core Single mode Indoor Fiber.
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 Faculty of Business and Administration : 35 pieces of 12-core Single mode
Indoor Fiber, 1 piece of 6 core Single mode Indoor Fiber .
 University Mall : 3 pieces of 12-core Single mode Indoor Fiber.
1.1.2
Outdoor Fiber maintenance:
Outdoor fibers include:
 Central Teaching Building : 18 pieces of 24-core Single mode outdoor
Fiber.
 Administration Building : 18 pieces of 24-core Single mode outdoor Fiber.
1.2
Detailed Requirement on Fiber Maintenance
1.2.1 Routine Maintenance
The contractor shall carry out at least one time checking of all indoor and outdoor
fibers during maintenance period. The maintenance works shall include fiber
inspection and cleaning of connectors. Repair work is required for broken fibers.
The contractor should lay a new fiber if the fiber is broken. If any damaged or
fault fiber cable is found, the contractor shall carry out the necessary repair
works such as splicing fiber cables and provide all the necessary materials. Fiber
shall be tested after repair work. The Fiber testing report shall be submitted in
PDF format to ICTO.
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1.2.2
Emergency Restoration
As the outdoor backbone fiber is critical for network connection between
buildings, the contractor shall have crews available to provide on-site support
within one hour in office hour and 4 hours in non-office hour upon receiving a
call. Outdoor fiber connection shall be restored within 6 hours at most and indoor
fiber connection shall be restored within 4 hours. If outdoor fiber is broken, as a
temporary solution, the contractor shall use a fiber box for outdoor fiber
connection, splicing and fiber termination are included. As a permanent solution,
the contractor shall lay a new single mode 24 core fiber from data center to
manhole nearest to the broken point of fiber cable and use fiber optic splice
closures for fiber connection, fiber splicing and termination are included. Fiber
shall be tested after repair work is completed.
1.3
Test, Troubleshoot and Remedy
The contractor shall be capable of testing fiber, determining the problem and
location and repairing/remedying the problem in a timely manner. ICTO may
require the contractor to physically inspect fiber enclosures and fiber qualify
whenever needed. Documentation of all findings and test results is required.
1.4 List of Spare Part and Equipment
The contractor shall keep 1000 M Single mode 9/125µM OS2 SM 24core
corrugated Steel Aromed and at least 4 Fosc 400 Fiber Optic Splice Closures
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for outdoor backbone Fiber emergency restoration.
Stock level of spare part
for indoor optical fiber shall be provided in the quotation. . The spare part shall
be delivered to University of Macau when the maintenance takes in effect. The
contractor shall submit list of machines and equipment items with quantities
suitable to meet the contractual requirement. (Such as Fluke DTX-1800
CableAnalyzer™ Series, Fitel S176 OPTICAL FIBER FUSION SPLICER, Fitel
S177 OPTICAL FIBER FUSION SPLICER).
1.5
Fiber Testing Report
The contractor shall use fiber tester (such as Fluke OFP-100-QI) to test all
the indoor and outdoor fiber during maintenance period. The optic fiber test
shall be in accordance with ANSI / TIA-568C and ISO / IEC11801: 2000 +
standard. The fiber testing report shall show “PASS” or “FAILED” status and
submitted in PDF format to ICTO.
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2.
Cabling Maintenance
The cabling maintenance should cover corrective activities. The corrective
maintenance consists of activities for correcting any faults which occur. Faults may be
detected by cable tester. The objective of corrective maintenance is to resume the
connectivity of network after the network cable is damaged or the modular jack connector
is broken. The on-site repair should include replacement of modular jack, termination
of patch panel or laying a new cable if the cable is damaged or broken.
2.1
Scope of cabling Maintenance
The scope of cabling maintenance covers the whole campus. There are about
70, 000 network sockets located in various buildings of the campus. The
existing cable system is adopted TsingHua TongFang Cat.6 cable, modular jack
and 24 port patch panel. As the campus is under development, the installation
or change the location of network port is still implemented. Therefore, 100
labor quota for installation of new network socket will be included in the
maintenance. The new laying Cat.6 cable, Cat.6 RJ45 Modular Jack, 24 port
patch panel for Cat.6, 7feet Cat.6 patch cord and Dual Hole Angled Face Plate
shall be AMP or equivalent.
2.2
Specifications of new laying Cat.6 cable
2.2.1
Physical Specifications:4 twisted pair – 23 AWG ensure optimum NEXT
performance by adopting a fluted construction and employing a polyethylene
CROSS filler for compartmentalizing the twisted pairs in the cable.
2.2.2
The solid copper conductors shall be 100 ohms nominal impedance ±15%.
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2.2.3
Electrical characteristics: Equal to or better than individual characteristics
established in TIA/EIA TSB-36 for Category 6 cable requirements. Be
characterized to 600MHz and exhibit positive PS ACR from 1 to 300 MHz.
2.2.4
The Category 6 UTP cable shall meet or exceed the transmission performance
specifications for 4-pair 100 ohms Category 6 Cabling referred to TIA/EIA-568B.2-1 standards.
2.2.5
Cable construction: individually insulated conductors under a common sheath.
2.2.6
UL listed CMR rated cable shall be used for all area.
2.27
Category 6 cable requirement performance at least as below:
Cat 6 UTP Cable Performance Requirements
Frequency
Attenuation
NEXT
PSNEXT
ACR
PS ACR
(MHz)
(dB/100m)
(dB)
(dB)
(dB)
(dB)
Maximum
Minimum Typical Minimum Typical Minimum Typical Minimum Typical
0.772
1.8
79
82
77
79
77.2
80.2
75.2
77.2
1
2.0
77
80
75
77
75.0
78.3
73.0
75.3
4
3.8
68
71
66
68
64.2
67.5
62.2
64.5
8
5.3
64
67
62
64
58.7
61.4
56.7
58.4
10
6.0
62
65
60
62
56.0
59.3
54.0
56.3
16
7.6
59
62
57
59
51.4
54.7
49.4
51.7
20
8.5
58
61
56
58
49.5
52.3
47.5
49.3
25
9.5
56
59
54
56
46.5
49.8
44.5
46.8
31.25
10.7
55
58
53
55
44.3
47.2
42.3
44.2
62.5
15.4
50
53
48
50
34.6
37.9
32.6
34.9
100
19.8
47
50
45
47
27.2
30.4
25.2
27.4
155
25.3
44
47
42
44
18.7
22.1
16.7
19.1
200
29.0
43
46
41
43
14.0
16.6
12.0
13.6
250
32.8
41
44
39
41
8.2
11.3
6.2
8.3
300
36.6
40
43
38
40
3.4
6.5
1.4
3.5
350
40.0
39
42
37
39
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2.3
Specifications of Cat.6 Patch Panel
Modular Jack type Panels for all Telecommunication closets shall be Category
6 compliant with modular jack type 8-pin non-keyed outlets and complies with
TIA/EIA-568-B.2-1 and IEC 60603-7-4. Outlet pinned as per TIA/EIA T-568B configuration.
Bend-limiting strain relief boot on the panel jack shall be used to reduce stress
and over bend on cable at point of termination. All cables should be tied on a
cable management bar which is at the rear of the panel.
Patch panel shall be terminated with the Cat.6 UTP cable on 110-style insulation
displacement connectors.
The size of the panel shall be 24-ports per rack mount unit.
The patch panel shall be UL listed and third party certified compliance to the
procedures and requirements of ANSI/TIA/EIA 568-B.2-1 Transmission
Performance Specification for 4-pair 100Ohm Category 6 cabling system. Third
party test certificate must be submitted and failure submission will not be
considered.
2.4
Specification of Cat.6 Modular connector
The modular jack shall be UL listed and third party certified compliance to the
procedures and requirements of ANSI/TIA/EIA 568-B.2-1 Transmission
Performance Specification for 4-pair 100Ohm Category 6 cabling system.
Third party test certificate must be submitted and failure submission will not
be considered.
The modular jack shall be an unkeyed, 4-pair and universal wiring label to
terminate cable either T568A or T568B.
It shall be plated with minimum of 1.27um (50 micro-inches) thick of gold in
the contact area and a minimum of 3.81um (150 micro-inches) thick of tin-lead
in the solder area over a 1.27um (50 micro-inches) minimum thick nickel
under-plate.
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It should have a durability of 750 mating cycles and durability of 200
termination cycles for the 110 IDC block.
It should comply with FCC part 68, subpart F.
Bend-limiting strain relief boot shall be used to reduce stress and over bend on
cable at point of termination.
Rest cable and modular jack should be installed into a suitable box and conform
TIA-569 standard. Minimum installed bend radius is 4 times cable outside
diameter (4D).
2.5
Specification of Cat.6 Patch cord
The patch cord shall be factory-made and not field terminated.
The patch cord shall be terminated with 8-position RJ-45 modular plug at both
ends. The plug shall be equipped to contain a clear plastic internal wire guide
that offer optimum pair balance to the point of termination.
The patch cord shall be constructed from round cable, and consist of eight
insulated 24AWG, stranded copper conductors, arranged in four color-coded
twisted pairs within a flame-retardant jacket.
The patch cord shall exceed and comply ANSI TIA/EIA 568 B-2.1 and IEC
60603-7-4 Category 6 Component requirements.
The patch cord shall be backward compatible with lower performing categories
components.
2.6
Wall mounted outlet faceplate
The Faceplate shall be made of ABS UL listed frame retardant material
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2.7
Detailed Requirement on Cabling Maintenance
The contractor shall have crews available to provide on-site upon receiving a call. The
contractor shall carry out on-site checking of fault network cable during
maintenance period. Fault network cable shall be repaired within two working
days when the problem is identified . If the cable is damaged or broken, the
contractor shall lay a new cable, including conduit installation, termination and
testing. The necessary repair works includes replacement of modular jack,
termination of patch panel and provide all the necessary materials. Network cable
shall be tested after repair work. The cable testing report shall be submitted in
PDF format to ICTO. For installation of new network socket, the contractor should
come to University of Macau for the installation upon receiving a collection of 5
or more request for installation network port. The installation of network port shall
include laying a new cable with installation of the conduit, ,faceplate installation,
termination of modular jack, patch panel , label for faceplate and patch panel, and
patching with labels from switches to patch panels in different location. If the
labor quota for installation of network socket has not been used up during the
maintenance period, the remaining labor quota could be accumulated to the next
maintenance period.
2.8
List of Spare Part and Equipment
The contractor shall keep 30 boxes of AMP Cat.6 UTP Cable (4-pairs) (1000ft),
300 pieces of AMP Cat.6 RJ45 Modular Jack, 10 pieces of AMP 24 port patch
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panel for Cat.6, 100 pieces of AMP 7feet Cat.6 patch cord and 100 pieces of
AMP Dual Hole Angled Face Plate. Stock level of spare part for cable
maintenance shall be provided in the quotation. The spare part shall be delivered
to University of Macau when the maintenance takes in effect. The contractor
shall submit list of machine and equipment item with quantities suitable to meet
the contractual requirement. (Such as Fluke DTX-1800 CableAnalyzer™ Series
or equivalent model).
2.9
Cable Testing Report
Testing shall be performed using a Fluke Field Tester or equivalent model. The
cable test shall be in accordance with ANSI / EIA / TIA-568B and ISO /
IEC11801: 2000 + standard. The cable testing report shall show “PASS” or
“FAILED” status and submitted in PDF format to ICTO.
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Relevant Experience
The contractor shall be a certified networking design and installer for a minimum of 5
years. Documentary evidence for this should be submitted.
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