Getting Ready for Eugene '08

Network Services installs cable for expansion of service at Hayward Field

MARCH 19, 2008—In 1999, Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco set a world record by running a mile in 3 minutes, 43.13 seconds. In contrast, Information Services has spent several hundred hours installing a mile of cable at Hayward Field as part of the renovations for Eugene ’08. Had El Guerrouj been pulling out a mile-long bundle of cable behind him, he may have never finished!

 

Information Services’ Don Williams and Dennis Vosticka tape telecomm cable, optical fiber cables and two fire alarm wiring packages to a thick TV cable. This bundle, which was as stiff as metal pipe, was then pushed through a conduit from one side of Hayward Field to the other. Halfway through the project they discovered the conduit had a tight turn that the thick bundle could not navigate. The solution was to splice the TV cable.

Don Williams works with an IES Security employee to feed cable into the conduit in the west Hayward Field grandstand as part of the larger wiring upgrade project. Information Services installed many different kinds of cable for a variety of purposes. The new scoreboard alone, required fiber optic, cable TV, phone wire and custom cabling.

— Patrick Chinn