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The Cable Abatement Experts

 

TCSS can survey your facilities, inventory and document those cables that are in use, and remove abandoned cables with minimal disruption to ongoing business functions. Please contact TCSS for more details about this issue and our cable abatement services.

Low Voltage cabling is the backbone of your IT infrastructure. Cables are the veins pumping life into your entire wired network (Phone, Voice, Data, Video). The cables work best when they are organized and under control; not tangled up and twisted. Your LAN needs structured network cabling to function optimally.

  • - Do you need to move or add some computer network and/or phone wall plates?

  • - Has your office network cabling changed so many times that you now have cables draped all over?

  • - Have you been installing and troubleshooting phone, data, video cabling on an ad-hoc basis?

  • - Are you remodeling or expanding your existing office?

  • - Are you moving your business to a new office?

    If so, you need a company that has been providing quality cable installations and will stand behind their work – now and in the future

  • - Voice, Data, Video Low Voltage Cabling

  • - Structured Cabling

  • - Fiber Optic Cable

  • - Coax (Satellite, Cable TV)

  • - Cat6a, Cat6, Cat5e, Cat5, Cat3

  • - LAN, WAN, WLAN

    TCSS provides structured low voltage network cabling (Cat6a, Cat6, Cat5e, Cat3, Fiber Optic, Coax) for office and LAN networks for small, medium, and large businesses.

Uncovering the Hazards of Old Cables

Outdated or abandoned cables can contain highly flammable and toxic material.

 

Hazards from the Technology Revolution

Each year, businesses across the nation spend millions in technology improvements that supercharge their productivity. Copper gives way to optical; USB to FireWire, POTS to ISDN. And with each new installation, more cables are encased in ceilings, floors and closets. Now, all of that unused cabling is the subject of increased scrutiny by fire protection professionals, property owners and local government and building authorities across the country.

Why? Because outdated or abandoned cables can contain highly flammable and toxic material. Often they have been installed with jacketed materials that further increase the risk of harm to people and property in the event of fire.

 

 

New Rules and Liabilities

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has revised the National Electrical Code to address this issue. Now, unused cables that are not identified for future use must be removed. Since many facilities have several generations of cables snaking through floors and ceilings, the task of distinguishing between functioning and abandoned cable can be monumentally difficult.

Voice, data, audio, coaxial and fiber optic cabling are all subject to the change in code, and local authorities have stepped up their enforcement efforts. Insurers are becoming equally vigilant in their fire coverage.

 

 

Taking Initiative

In localities where the code has already been adopted, violations can subject owners to government sanctions. Importantly however, they can affect the owner’s loan covenants, access to insurance, obligations to tenants – and liabilities to victims in the event of fire. Property owners are recognizing the enormous implications of the code change for their businesses. But many wonder how to even get a handle on the extent of the problem in their buildings.

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