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FIRE PROTECTION IN BROADBAND CABLE COMMUNICATIONS
Fire Detection and Suppression to the Last Mile

CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS BUILT TO CODE

The mission of a broadband cable communications company—whether it is a traditional regional operating company, a long-distance provider, a wireless service, or a broadband company offering bundled TV, internet, and phone—is to provide customers with round-the-clock, uninterrupted service. A fire in any critical telecom facility—whether a central office, a satellite transmission station, or a cable head-end—can knock out vital communication links for thousands of customers at once.

Like data centers, broadband facilities rely on sensitive computing equipment, they are often tightly packed, cooling is a concern, cables and network equipment are always live with electricity, and a fire would be catastrophic. Risk is accentuated when buildings are unmanned. Many are located in remote areas. In some cases, the buildings sole purpose is to house telco network equipment and fire suppression equipment is not required by the AHJ.

BROADBAND RESOURCES

Broadband Brochure

Read more about how ORR can protect your broadband assets from fire and share this PDF with your team.

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Code Requirement Reference Guide

Use this quick reference guide to help you create a gameplan for protecting your data center.

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Monitoring Brochure

Learn how ORR can keep watch over your Data Center systems while you remain in control with our mobile app.

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The data center experience

BROADBAND CABLE SOLUTIONS:

ORR's superior solutions utilizing a combination of technologies specific to your broadband needs and requirements. We offer a range of solutions for alarm, detection, suppression and services.  

Li-ion Tamer - Improved monitoring for lithium-ion battery health and safety. This technology offers a safety product that specializes in detecting any off-gas event from lithium-ion batteries. It’s a unique protection technology that offers the earliest warning to avoid catastrophic events.

How it works: Li-ion tamer is an off-gas monitor. It detects off-gas prior to thermal runaway. Upon off-gas detection, the detector sends a signal to a controller. The controller sends a signal to a battery management system. The battery management system shuts down the battery pack and sends an alert signal to the monitoring.

Vesda - Air sampling smoke detection is uniquely designed to detect particles of combustion at four field programmable levels, beginning with the earliest, incipient stage; where smoke is invisible to the human eye.

How it works: A fan continuously draws air from the protected area into the detection chamber. Inside, particles in the air pass through a laser beam, where a photodetector measures the light scattered by each particle. The system counts these individual particles to assess smoke concentration levels. A built-in particle size discriminator filters out larger particles—such as dust—to prevent them from skewing the results. Unlike conventional high-sensitivity smoke detectors, this system relies on precise particle concentration. By analyzing both the size and number of particles, it can distinguish actual combustion particles from dust and other airborne contaminants that often cause nuisance alarms in traditional spot detectors.

Room Integrity Testing - The successful performance of any clean agent fire suppression system is dependent on the integrity of the enclosure intended to be protected. Each protected zone must be properly constructed and sealed to sustain the fire suppression agent for 10 minutes as prescribed by NFPA 2001, Standard on Clean Agent Fire Extinguishing Systems. A room integrity fan test, also known as a door fan test, is the industry standard method to measure leakage potential of MTC, Fiber rooms, Power rooms and Head ends.

How it works: During our routine inspection program, we visually inspect the facility for integrity breach due to unsealed penetrations, failed door hardware and modified ventilation systems. We find most facilities experience some level of change since the original door fan test was conducted. Will your fire suppression system work correctly if called to action today? If you haven’t conducted a room integrity test lately, call us today to schedule a test.

CONNECT WITH OUR BROADBAND TEAM

Dan Jasper

National Business Development Manager

Dan Jasper is the National Business Development Manager for ORR Protection, focused on the Broadband industry. His career in specialized fire suppression spans almost 40 years. With his experience Dan is qualified to provide fire protection solutions for all Mission Critical applications.

Because of Dan’s diverse portfolio of product knowledge he is uniquely qualified to provide solutions using FM-200, NOVEC1230, FE-25, ProInert, Intergen, Argonite, Halon replacement systems and Water mist. As well as advances methods of detection including air sampling, optical, CO and Photelectric.

Dan often meets with clients and companies who need training on their fire systems or looking for consultation on how to add, improve or upgrade their fire protection systems. This will often lead to a design, Installation and routine NFPA complaint inspection and testing.

Lee Kaiser

Vice President, Engineering and Training

Lee  is VP of Engineering and Technical Training for ORR Protection and is Chairperson of the technical committee for NFPA 75, Standard for the Protection of Information Technology Equipment. His career at ORR has been to provide technical and thought leadership in the protection of mission critical facilities.

Lee is a professional engineer in the discipline of fire protection engineering. He participates in industry committees for ORR and gives technical education sessions at conferences and seminars throughout the county. Connect with me on LinkedIn.

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