Copper cabling solution gets rave reviews
When one of the UK’s largest cinema groups looked at going digital, they soon discovered that there was a myriad of options and decisions to make.
Back in 2009, Odeon cinemas embarked on a major digital cinema conversion project across its entire UK and Eire estate and used a 10GPlus shielded copper cabling system from Brand-Rex as the core component of its new network infrastructure.
Brand-Rex’s partner, J Brand, was appointed to carry out the work, as the company’s Sales and Marketing Manager, Paul Jordan, explained. “Our challenge was to provide Odeon with a cabling infrastructure capable of supporting network speeds of 10 Gigabit Ethernet. This would allow it to quickly and reliably transfer film between screens within the cinema network and get the best out of the state-of-the-art digital projection equipment being introduced. We knew that 10GPlus would be able to meet this criteria and had no hesitation in recommending it.”
Ian Wilkie, Marketing and Supply Chain Director at UK cabling manufacturer Brand-Rex, said: “10GPlus is a third party approved cabling system that not only exceeds the performance levels specified in EIA/TIA for Category 6A, but also the requirements in ISO/IEC for Class EA. The 10GPlus system therefore has unparalleled levels of certification and is manufactured in accordance with ISO 14001 and ISO 9001:2008.”
After discussing the relative merits of shielded and unshielded cable with Odeon, it was decided that the former would be most suitable, owing to its ability to provide an added layer of protection against electromagnetic interference.
The project was run to a rigid schedule and so in order to make the best use of its time on-site, J Brand’s engineers used the Brand-Rex tool-free RJ-45 Snap-In-Jack for fast and efficient termination. As a result, all the Odeon conversions have opened on schedule.
J Brand completed its work this month and Jordan concluded: “This was a massive undertaking that involved the installation of over 90km of cable and 3,200 links within 112 cinemas. The project was a great success and Odeon now boasts 884 digital screens in the UK and Eire.”
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