CASE STUDYNucor Corporation Expands North American Situation Nucor Corporation, the nation’s largest recycler and manufacturer of steel products, recently expanded its North American He
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Nucor Corporation Expands North American
Situation
Nucor Corporation, the nation’s largest recycler and manufacturer of steel products, recently expanded its North American Headquarters by retrofitting an existing 5-story building With an aggressive short-term construction schedule, Nucor selects ADC Value Added Reseller (VAR), Network Cabling Systems for all installation activities and ADC TrueNet®
copper and fiber products
Solution
A complete turn-key installation of ADC’s TrueNet copper and fiber products to each floors Intermediate Distribution Facility (IDF) in Nucor’s expanded North American headquarters Also, ADC’S indoor/outdoor rated fiber products were used to support a remote building and 10 gigabit CopperTen® cabling and patch panels within Nucor’s data center
to support active network equipment and servers
ReSultS
No one understands quality and workmanship of products better than Nucor Steel As a leading manufacturer of carbon and alloy steel products, Nucor wanted a quality and robust technology to serve their current and future voice and data requirements “We sought a vendor that we could work with to do a good and professional installation job,” explained Dave Dunlap, IT Project lead “We selected Network Cabling Systems (NCS) for this project as we already had good past project experiences with them including our MAC’s (moves, add, changes) work We knew their workmanship was quality and their commitment
to Nucor’s standards was on-target with our expectations.” By NCS introducing us to ADC, we knew we would be getting quality products and a solid installation “
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Situation
As a Fortune 500 company, Nucor operates in
nineteen states with its’ corporate headquarters
located in Charlotte, NC Products produced
are carbon and alloy steel for commercial and
residential use
Nucor’s success can be attributed to the hard
work and dedication of its employees Dating
back to 1905, Nucor has always been an
innovator, producing the first commercial cars
with electric lights and electric starters Known
then as an auto manufacturer, Ransom E
Olds, founded Oldsmobile and then in 1905,
REO Motor Car Company Through a series of
acquisitions, the company evolved into the nuclear
instruments and electronics business and later
purchased a company that made steel joists and
joist girders The company‘s remarkable evolution
led to major innovations in steel manufacturing
Not long thereafter, in 1972, the company
officially adopted the Nucor Corporation name
Nucor has expanded its’ operations over the
years and in the summer of 2006, retrofitted
a 5-story building for expansion of its North
American headquarters in Charlotte, NC It was
an aggressive 6-month construction effort to
completely renovate the existing building During
this time, Nucor’s IT department led a project to
select a vendor that could deliver professional
results with the installation of the building’s
horizontal and riser cabling infrastructure
Through a very detailed evaluation, including
presentations from Network Cabling Systems,
all parties agreed that ADC was the solution
that would best fill the requirements Nucor had
determined were essential
Solution
ADC’s TrueNet Category 6 AirES® cable and
modular Category 6 jacks were installed to
each floors’ workstation outlets Two Category
6 plenum cables were installed to each work
location with each floors’ IDF rooms being
equipped with ADC’s TrueNet patch panels
For connectivity between each floor’s IDF, ADC
provided a “bundled” Category 6 solution The
two 6-cable bundled solution contained
speed-wrap and Kevlar for additional strength and
durability and was terminated in each closet on
ADC’s TrueNet patch panels In each IDF, two equipment racks were each equipped with ADC vertical managers, three 8-inch managers for each rack Each 8-inch vertical manager was equipped with removable metal doors This provided not only the right aesthetics but also ensured proper cable management within each IDF
For vertical riser connectivity between the floors’ IDFs, a 50 micron multi-mode laser optimized 12-fiber ADC cable was installed The cable with inter-locking armored sheathing was terminated
on ADC’s TrueNet 2-RU RMG series rack mount enclosures in each of the floors’ IDFs “We used ADC’s RMG’s fiber panels not only in the IDFs but also in our Data Center and two other additional locations,” explained Dave Dunlap, Nucor IT project lead, “as it is a low-profile design that is modular and flexible for our needs We chose to direct terminate in each panel using SC couplers.”
In addition to providing horizontal and vertical cabling in the new retrofitted building, Nucor also expanded their network to a remote Generator building as well as a carrier/rquipment room using ADC fiber cable Two 12-fiber multi-mode (MM) indoor/outdoor plenum rated fibers were installed
in conduit between the Nucor data center and the generator building and another two 12-stranded MM fiber cable was installed in the carrier/equipment room “We needed to provide connectivity to the generator room for some time now and additional fiber was needed to expand carrier services into our data center equipment distribution area,” explained Dunlap In both the
ADC's Copper and Fiber cabling running from the Main Distribution Facility to the Intermediate
Distribution Facilities.
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carrier room and generator building, a 2-RU ADC
RMG fiber panel was installed originating from
the data center on a 4-RU RMG fiber panel The
fiber panels contain sliding and removable front
and rear panels which provide convenient access
inside the panel Up to 72 terminations can be
made in one RU enclosure
Inside the data center, ADC’s TrueNet 10-gigabit
cabling and 24-port CopperTen 1-RU patch panels
were installed to server cabinets Each server
cabinet, approximately 15 cabinets total, were
equipped with ADC’s CopperTen 24-port patch
panels From each server cabinet, ADC CopperTen
cables were extended to a centralized cabinet
The centralized cabinet, also equipped with
ADC’s CopperTen panels, allows a single point for
moves, add, changes without ever making any
patch changes in the individual server cabinets
“We wanted an inter-connection between our
switches and servers that would provide us a
single access point for any network changes
required Now, if we need to make a network
change to any of our servers, we only do it in the
centralized cabinet,” said Dunlap ADC’s TrueNet
high-performance patch cords were used in the
cabinets as well as the industries only laser-tuned
modular jacks in the patch panels This ensures
that each jack manufactured is individually
optimized for 10-gigabit performance
The project also included voice and data
expansion to another floor of the newly
renovated building Nucor’s affiliate, Castrip,
currently occupies a portion of another floor
Both fiber and Category 6 “bundled” cables were extended to this floors IDF originating from the data center There were six total bundled cables each with six Category 6 cables All cables were terminated on TrueNet patch panels The fiber was a 12-strand MM 50 micron cable with an armored cable design using an all dielectric central strength member (CSM)
ReSultS
Nucor Corporation emphasizes one goal, “Take Care of our Customers.” They are committed to being the best in their industry by providing the highest quality products and having the most productive work-force possible Their key to being such a profitable company today is attributed to working together as a team committed to this one goal
Their recent North American headquarters expansion, allowed ADC and our partner, Network Cabling Systems, to be a part of their exciting growth and to work with many talented Nucor professionals The challenges were many and at times, not everything during the installation went as planned, however, the end result was a very clean installation and a reliable network infrastructure that will provide many years of high-quality and consistent network performance “We knew we could count on NCS
to provide a quality installation,” concluded Scott Messenger, “and we are very happy with all ADC products that are in our network today.”
A front view of one of the IDF’s with ADC TrueNet
patch panels and 8" vertical managers with
removable doors
A rear view of the IDF rack with ADC's CopperTen cabling terminated and ADC cable management
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