— Structured Cabling · Office
Corporate office — 50 Cat6A drops, single floor
Problem. A 50-seat single-floor office needs a Cat6A drop per desk plus AP and CCTV terminations, terminating to one rack.
Answer. 50 user drops + 8 APs + 12 CCTV = 70 total drops at an average run of ~30 m lands at roughly 2100 m of cable plus rack hardware. The estimator returns cable length, jacks, patch panels and rack-unit budget.
02 / In depth
How this preset reads — the engineering view.
Single-floor structured cabling is the simplest geometry but still benefits from estimator discipline — the cable order, jack-and-patch-panel count and rack-unit budget are the three numbers that move the BOQ.
This preset assumes 50 user desk drops, 8 wireless access points and 12 CCTV cameras, all terminating to a single rack in the floor's IT closet. Average run length is set to 30 m — short for an office (5–8 m to nearest cluster) but realistic when you include the rack-to-furthest-corner runs.
Cat6A is the recommended cable grade for new installs of this scale — supports 10 GbE to the desk for future-proofing and PoE++ for AP / camera power. Cat6 is acceptable for legacy / cost-sensitive deployments but is increasingly tight on PoE budgets.
Out of scope: rack power and cooling, switch model and port count (use POE Budget tool), fibre uplinks to the building backbone, and the SD-WAN / MPLS termination at the edge router. The estimator is a cable-and-jack tool, not a network design tool.
What this preset deliberately does not solve
- Average run length is a strong sensitivity — measure or estimate per floor plan.
- Cat6A vs Cat6 is a future-proofing call, not a today-spec call.
- Patch panel + jack + faceplate accessories are estimated; a real BOQ uses the brand-specific kit.
How this preset differs from its siblings
The hotel-200-drops sibling preset is a multi-floor topology problem — 5 IDFs + 1 MDF, with the cable order sliced across closets and a fibre backbone joining them. This preset is the simpler single-rack geometry: all drops terminate to one closet, no fibre backbone in scope, no per-floor UPS sizing. The decision space is dominated by cable grade (Cat6A vs Cat6) and the patch-panel + jack count; topology is trivial.
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Presets are a typology starting point. The brief wizard captures the room geometry, programme and constraints we need to translate this configuration into a real design.