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Excel is a complete, end-to-end networking solution, offering exceptional value for money, performance and support, manufactured to international quality standards and covered by a comprehensive no-nonsense single warranty programme supported by mayflex, a uk-based company with global revenue in excess of £60m.

With an emphasis on compatibility and standards compliance ‘from cable to cabinet’, reliability and product availability, Excel is the complete trusted system. When installed by an accredited Excel Cabling Partner (ECP), the Excel structured cabling system is supported by a comprehensive 25-year warranty programme covering not just copper twisted pair cabling, but also optical fibre links and voice multipair backbones.

Since its launch in 1997, Excel has enjoyed formidable growth and market acceptance and has been subject to continuous development. Thousands of organizations across a myriad of sectors now rely on Excel to meet, if not exceed, their networks’ performance expectations. With distribution and installation partners in over 15 countries, the market’s broadest set of traditional and pre-terminated copper and optical solutions, and with high performance and reliability as standard, the Excel structured cabling solution has established itself as a major force in the market.

The independent market research organization BSRIA, reported on over 15 brands of structured cabling in its market survey of March 2008. Of these, four companies accounted for over 53% of the total market when measured by value. Excel is proud to have recorded fourth position for the second year running, in what is widely regarded as the authoritative survey of the UK market.

The Excel product portfolio is extensive and the majority of the products have been independently tested by Delta, a leading test organisation.

Our aim in developing a Category 6a copper solution has been to keep it simple. In our opinion, the two key elements of any cabling system are standards compliance and reliability once installed. These core requirements drive all of our research and development and both can be found in this, our latest addition to the Excel product family.

Category 6a – as a standard – defines a set of performance criteria for individual and combined cabling components, which must be adhered to by system manufacturers, designers and integrators.

Once correctly installed and tested, a Category 6a system provides a copper cabling infrastructure capable of transmitting data at speeds of 10 Gigabit, as well as other applications commonly found in the corporate LAN or data centre including all other Ethernet applications and voice, for example.

However, in the same way as a motorway is not the only way to travel from one destination to another, Category 6a is not the only way to support 10 Gigabit Ethernet within your organisation.

Category 6 can support this application, as can optical fibre cable, each of which has its own pro’s and con’s including distance limitations. Such information should be carefully considered when assessing the suitability of legacy cabling or the choice of new cabling where 10 Gigabit applications are required.

Each of the key components within our Category 6 and 5e solutions is approved to relevant ISO or TIA/EIA standards by recognised independent test houses. Installed Excel systems do not just meet defined standards, they exceed them. The Excel Category 6 system provides bandwidths of 250MHz. A range of performance characteristics are tested up to 250MHz including return loss, attenuation and near and far end crosstalk (NEXT and FEXT) for which both worst case and power sum tests are completed.

When tested both in isolation and in circuit, actual performance far exceeds the required standard, resulting in significant headroom for even the most demanding of applications.

Traditionally considered as a backbone or campus media, recent developments in both the cost effectiveness and ease of installation of fibre optic systems have led many users to consider the real possibility of fibre-to-desk as the ultimate ‘bandwidth provider’.

There is no doubt that, whatever its application, the grade and type of fibre you install will have significant implications. The Excel fibre optic range ensures all options are available to you.

The Excel 25-year product and applications warranty can only be issued by an authorized Excel Cabling Partner who will have attended and passed a series of training progammes on a regular basis prior to being accredited. Each warranty application follows the same strict procedure, regardless of installation size, product or integrator involved. A detailed site registration form is completed by the integrator and provided to the Excel technical support team together with test data for each installed copper and, where applicable, optical link. Our engineers audit this information carefully, not only looking at the electrical performance characteristics but also checking for correct tester settings, cable lengths and other potential anomalies.

Only when we are completely satisfied with the information provided will a warranty certificate be issued.

The warranty is issued directly by Excel to the end user on approval of all of the relevant test documentation. From the date of issue of this documentation your installation and the products it comprises of are covered by a 25-year workmanship and applications warranty.

In effect the warranty received by Excel clients provides a bandwidth guarantee, regardless of the specific applications running over the network. Provided an application is designed to work within the bandwidth range of the installed grade of cable, it is covered.

This means that you can rely on the support of Excel and your chosen integrator to resolve any issues or concerns relating to the installation at any time during the warranty period.

The Excel Structured cabling system installed by an accredited Excel Cabling Partner (ECP) provides you with a well designed, correctly installed, standards-compliant structured cabling system, backed by a comprehensive warranty programme, thereby protecting your investment and allowing for your future needs.

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