Tim wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 10:26 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
In our city, plenum rated cables have to be used in anything that has
any type of air access. If you bring the cables out in any way to a
patch panel, they have to be plenum rated.
In one sense, that does sound a bit silly. I mean, is the equipment the
cables run into also made out of similarly fire retardent, and non-toxic
fume generating, plastic?
But in many cases, don't some rules seem silly?
The issue as I see it, if there is a fire, the cable cannot be a
method of transferring the fire into the walls via the insulation. In
case a cable ends up having to run in a drop ceiling or there is a
construction change down the road. All the cables are the same standard.
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Robin Laing
