FAIRMONT HOTELS & RESORTS -DESIGN STANDARDS

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts · Design Standards
SERVICES AND SYSTEMS
Certification
a) To qualify for system certification, a manufactures copper and optical fiber cabling
system shall be designed, engineered, installed and tested by a manufacturer
certified vendor.
b) To qualify for system certification, the installed cabling system shall fully comply
with all relevant manufacturer design guidelines, including acceptable deviations as
specified in the latest release of the manufacturers certification guide.
c) To qualify for system certification, only a single manufactures approved products
shall be used to ensure end-to-end system performance. The full manufactures
product warranty and lifetime performance assurance can only be provided to
systems built using products supplied by the chosen manufacturer.
Lifetime Application Assurance
a) The manufacturers certification shall provide the assurance that all present and
future applications engineered for the performance level of the cabling system used
will work for the lifetime of the certified copper and optical fiber cabling system.
b) Should the certified copper and optical fiber cabling system fail to support the
application(s) designed to operate over it—whether at the time of cutover to the
new cabling system, during subsequent use, or after upgrading to a newer
supported application (for example, to a Fast Ethernet or an ATM network from a
lower-speed network environment) the manufacturer and the vendor shall take
prompt corrective action.
Product Warranty
The manufacturers certification shall provide a twenty-five year product warranty for all
passive components used in the installed copper and optical fiber cabling system.
Defective and/or improperly installed products shall be replaced and/or correctly installed at no
cost Fairmont Hotels & Resorts.
6.11. Vendor Submittals
The Vendor shall provide Fairmont Hotels & Resorts with the following:
a) A hard copy of all test results for approval and system acceptance.
b) Manufacturers users manual, at the completion of the project.
c) Manufacturers application guidelines (where available) for network technologies,
which will operate over the manufacturers copper and optical fiber cabling system
at the completion of the project.
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