Business Case: Doral Financials

Client: Doral Financial
Services Provided: Building Telecommunication Installation
Project Start Date: September 2001
Project Completion Date: December 2001

Project Size:

  • 1 Building, 13 floors
  • 4,000 ft. - 12FMM Fiber Backbone
  • 500 ft. - 100 Pairs Voice Backbone
  • 16 ea - Telecommunications room
  • 125ea - 100 Pairs Consolidation Points
  • 6,000ea - 1 Pair Voice Backbone Terminations
  • 2,300ea - 4Pairs Cat 5e Drops
  • 200,000 - 4Pairs Cat5e cabling
  • 5,000 - Cat 5e TIA/EIA 568B tests
Client's Need:

Doral Financial needed a reliable and flexible telecommunication infrastructure for it's 13 story building, which would ensure that the corporation could continue operations seamlessly through organizational changes, when modular furniture needed to be moved around.

How did Lord's team respond to the challenge:

To ensure the much needed flexibility, Lord's team installed a raised floor application with 25 under-floor consolidation points in five of the building's floors. Each consolidation point allowed up to twenty five CAT5e connections (with 100 pairs 110 Cat5e floor mounted block).

Because of Doral Financial's computer system infrastructure, the project included the installation of a Star Topology 24 strands of 62.5/125 multimode fiber optic backbone that runs from the data center room through the main cross-connect and up from there to each floor's telecomunication room.The team installed a copper cable backbone that ran from the service entrance room to the main cross-connect room and up from there to the telecomunications room in each floor.