Volume 11, Issue 6

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Connectivity

Communications cabling: A new market

June 1, 2003
We are not in the cabling business. We are in the communications business.
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Copper

Is some Cat 5e cable good enough to be called Category 6?

June 1, 2003
I had a question at a seminar that a prominent distributor and a prominent cabling-system vendor would not (could not) answer. I have a customer with an embedded base of Category...
Copper

But you can't buy a Cat 5e tester

June 1, 2003
I read with interest your recent editorial, "Getting testy about testing" (April 2003, page 7). You have fallen into an assumption that many do...
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IP Security & AV

Redundant cabling among recommendations for disaster recovery strategies

June 1, 2003
Despite lessons of Sept. 11, many data back-up plans have fallen by the wayside due to budget cuts.
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Fiber Optic

New Products

June 1, 2003
Tight-space cable puller; Fire-retardant video/security cable ; Handheld visible fault-finder; MORE...

More content from Volume 11, Issue 6

Home

On plenum, polymers, and knockoffs

June 1, 2003
Three interesting pieces of information related primarily to unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cable recently came across my radar screen, and I'd like to share them with you.
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Network Protocols

Multi-pair copper: Bridging the bandwidth gap

June 1, 2003
New technology involves aggregating the bandwidth of several copper pairs in the local loop.
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IP Security & AV

A shift of security to IT brings new challenges, ideas

June 1, 2003
New digital video equipment allows for increased flexibility and manipulation of information, requiring security systems to run over LANs and WANs.
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Copper

Up-close and personal: Cat 6 return-on-investment

June 1, 2003
To make profitable, long-term business decisions, you'll need to consider three things: Where have we been? Where are we going? How will we get there?
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Connectivity

Boiling down the 606-A labeling standard

June 1, 2003
The ultimate labeling solution includes several essential elements.