Varia :: Structured Cabling Systems :: Building Security Integration

• System and needs evaluation
• Referencing of applicable standards
• RFP or RFQ development

• On-site presence
• Material procurement
• Coordination with other trades
• Progress meetings
• Technician management
• Quality control inspections
• National rollouts

• Voice, data and video cabling
• Outside plant cabling
• Backbone installations
• Copper and Fiber optics
• Splicing
• Service extensions
• On-site support labor
• MAC (moves, adds, changes) work

• Card access control
• Closed circuit television (CCTV)
• Alarm monitoring
• Maintenance contracts

• LAN/WAN engineering
• Network electronic installation and configuration
• Wireless access points
• Voice over IP system (VoIP)
• Data center design

• Category 3, 5e, 6, 6a for voice and data
• Fiber optics to the desktop
• Coaxial video distribution
• Zone distribution
• Communications room build-out
• On staff RCDDs
• BICSI certified technicians

• Multi-pair copper
• Multimode and singlemode fiber optics
• SC, ST, LC, MTRJ
• RG-11 trunks
• Voice field layout and cross-connects
• Core hole installation and sleeves

• Conduit and manhole systems
• Direct burial trenching
• Lightning protection
• Aerial cable

• Fluke DTX-1600 Category 6 testers w/multimode and singlemode fiber optic test adapters
• OTDR testing
• AutoCad and Visio
• As-built drawings
• Every project receives a complete documentation binder at the completion of the project which documents cable paths, cable identifiers, as-built drawings and cable test results (hard copy or on disk)

Many new tenants of office buildings mistakenly think that they have to use the base building security vendor for their individual tenant security needs. This is typically untrue. Base building controls are the doors, elevators and gates that are controlled and managed by the building management company and are in common areas accessed by multiple tenants. When a tenant signs a lease within a building, the building management typical issues a card for each employee to access the base building controlled areas. The main concern for a tenant is to maintain the use of a single card to access base building controls as well as the tenant controlled spaces. Varia will test the base building card to determine the exact card technology and bit format in order to provide a seamless transition to the tenant space. Varia will install a new independent, access control system that uses the same access cards issued by building management, but is controlled by the tenant within their space. This allows the tenant to add/delete users, run activity reports, and manage time zones and access levels. The same concept applies to access cards that the tenant wishes to use between multiple offices. Varia has successfully completed this base building/tenant integration throughout multiple locations in MD, DC and VA.