COE Installation Quality Bulletin
Installation Quality Bulletin Number: 07-04
To: QTI / Central Office Operations Representatives / Design
Engineering Representatives / Quality Managers / Field
Engineering Representatives / AMC Representatives
Date: Monday, December 21, 2007
From: QWEST Installation Quality Assurance
Subject:
QTI CYBER CENTER INSTALLATIONS
Action Required:
NO:
YES:
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Description of Bulletin:
Installations of QC equipment, within a QCC Site (Cyber Center)
environment should follow per QCC Document Number 00425 Chapters
8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. When installation requirements are not
addressed in QCC Document Number 00425, QC Technical Publication
77350 will be adhered to.
Points of emphasis;
1. Slack fiber shall not be stored in fiber duct system.
Sufficient fiber slack trays should be added to store excess
fiber length.
2. Sufficient towel bars should be added between shelves front
and rear to correctly manage cables in and out of the shelves.
3. Shelf numbering is from the bottom of bay to top, in numerical
order. Equipment shelves shall start with SH-01. Fuse Panels
mounted at the top of the bay shall be numbered per 77350 Par.
8.3.4.
4. Two-hole compression lugs cannot be cut to make a one-hole
lug.
5. Heat shrinkable tubing should be added around ground cable
lugs.
6. Plastic tie wraps are not allowed.
7. Cables within the bay upright shall be properly laid down next
to each other and arranged in an orderly manner and sewn to
the cable management bracket. Refer to 77350, Chapter 5,
Figure 5.8.
8. CAT5 cables should be cut to proper length between equipment.
Excess cable slack shall not be stored in the bay upright or
cable rack system.
9. It is not acceptable to run Quad or higher sheathed fibers in
a fiber duct system. QCC will only accept single and dual
fiber Jumpers within the Fiber Duct System.
10. Appropriate bay and shelf designation labels, per 77350 8.22,
shall be applied to properly identify far end locations.
When Installation requirements within QCC Document Number 00425,
Technical Publication 77350, and the specific items above are not
met within the Design Work Package (DWP) the installer shall
identify and resolve the issue with the Design Engineer.
QCC Document Number 00425, can be located at the following Web
location:
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http://ncs/homepages/engineering/ftp/TOOL_BOX/QCC_EIC_TP0042
5.pdf
Any questions can be addressed to Engineering / Installation
Quality Manager, Don Noffsinger, at 303-707-7590.
Qwest Installation Quality Assurance
Jeff Bostow
612-798-2460
mailto: [email protected]