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Polarity; don’t let it bring you down!
There are countless stories of “nightmare” fiber optic installations. Many of the nightmares were caused from polarity issues! The concept of polarity itself issimple, the transmit needs to go to receive and vice versa. However, things d...
CABLE Talk – Understanding Fiber Core
Check out this quick tutorial by Josh Taylor, Senior Product Manager for CABLExpress® explaining and showing the different core measurements and fiber types. CABLE Talk with CABLExpress Product Manager Josh Taylor is a series of cable and data cente...
Fiber Cable and Ground loops? Not
One of the reasons why fiber optic cable is used to connect between buildings is because of its non-conductivity. When two buildings are connected by a cable with copper conductors, slight differences in the ground potential of each building may ca...
The importance of Fiber Cleaning
We all know that fiber optic cabling is a high performance option for datacenters and network connectifivity. But, did you know that fiber cable endface contamination can quickly crash your link? Check out this quick tutorial by Josh Taylor of CABL...
Cable Talk - Cable Managment
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Cable Labeling: A Simple but Essential Task
Labeling network cables and components is not a difficult job, but it is time-consuming. In an article I recently came across had a great quote that for those of who have been in the business know is true. “Years ago, when I worked for [a wel...
Cable Labeling: A Simple but Essential Task
Mode Conditioning
Ever Wonder… Why Mode Conditioning fiber cables are required when Gigabit 1000 Base-LX Ethernet hardware is installed into existing multimode cable plants. Customers that have existing multimode fiber infrastructures ,and buy new gigabit...
Mode Conditioning
What is Structured Cabling?
Fiber Optic Basics Who Knew?
Ever Wonder… For those of us in the in the cable industry we work with fiber optics on a daily basis. Since its invention in the early 1970s, the demand and use of fiber has grown tremendously. Optical fiber uses today are quite numerous and p...
Loss Budgets… What are they?
Cabling True or False - (Part 2 of 2)
There is a lot of confusion in the market about the differences in UTP cabling. Today I continue New Year series of fun True or False questions to test your knowledge of cabling. Q - You can not run run gigabit Ethernet on Cat 5e Cable. A - False; ...
Cabling True or False - (Part 2 of 2)
Cabling True or False - (Part 1 of 2)
There is a lot of confusion in the market about the differences in UTP cabling. So I thought it would be good to begin the new year with some fun True or False questions to test your knowledge of cabling. Q - Cat 6 cable carries signals further than...
Cabling True or False - (Part 1 of 2)
Thoughs on TIA-568-C Standards
Wireless Terms Made Easy
Data Center’s Consolidating on Ethernet Networks
Solutions for Sound and Security
Hot Aisle / Cold Aisle
Search Data Center defines Hot/cold aisle (or hot aisle/cold aisle) as a method of cooling servers in data centers in which every aisle between rows of racks is bounded with exclusively hot-air outlets or exclusively cool-air intakes. Air is brought ...
Loss Budgets… What are they?
Ever Wonder what is a Loss budgets? The loss budget analysis is the calculation and verification of a fiber optic system’s operating characteristics. This encompasses items such as routing, electronics, wavelengths, fiber type, and circuit l...
What is Structured Cabling?
We talk about it all the time but when a newbie asks us how do you explain it? While presenting to a small group of new employees one of them presented me with this Wikipedia definition. I have now added it to my “general” training ma...
