Volume 5, Issue 11

Point of View: Little vertical in horizontal fiber trends

Nov. 1, 1997

Great enhancements have been made over recent years in the handling and routing of fiber-optic cables and the connectors that tie these cables to destination points. Fiber advocates...

Cabling Installation

Designing telecommunications for small offices and home offices

Nov. 1, 1997

As we prepare to enter the twenty-first century, our residential and light-commercial cabling must be brought up to par with the sophisticated electronic and telecommunications...

Cabling Installation

Cable strippers perform basic but important functions

Nov. 1, 1997

The most basic of the tools in a cabling installer`s kit, the cable stripper, can easily be taken for granted. Installers use so many other more-expensive, highly technical tools...

Cabling Installation

Digital calls on multipair cable for voice and data network

Nov. 1, 1997

The computer hardware manufacturer specified bundled Category 3 and Category 5 cable for its customer-service center.

Connectivity

Adapters bridge the gap between fiber-optic connectors

Nov. 1, 1997

Fiber-optic adapters form a small, but critical, part of the hardware used in an optical-fiber cabling system. While the importance of adapters is often overshadowed by connectors...

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Fiber Optic

Fiber interconnect products

Nov. 1, 1997

Constructed of steel with a black, baked epoxy powder finish, Light Express 2 interconnect products come equipped with cable management reels. Each product is preloaded with industry...

Cabling Standards

Enhanced-performance Category 5--A look at usable bandwidth

Nov. 1, 1997

The enhanced-performance cables now being offered by some manufacturers call for understanding many more electrical properties than has been the case with lower-grade cable.

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Automatic crimping machine

Nov. 1, 1997

The CF 3000-2.5 strips a stranded wire to the exact length, inserts a ferrule on the wire, and crimps it. The 29-pound machine processes up to 1200 conductors per hour. A digital...

Cabling Standards

Standards group prepares for gigabit traffic on Category 5 cables

Nov. 1, 1997

Working Group TR-41.8.1 within the Telecommunications Industry Association (tia--Arlington, VA) is working to categorize the transmission performance of Category 5 cabling for...

Cabling Standards

By the Book....

Nov. 1, 1997

When introduced in 1995, the lan Design Manual, published by bicsi (Tampa, FL), was the culmination of months of work by the organization`s Engineering and Methods Committee. ...

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Cable locator carrying case

Nov. 1, 1997

The TW-770 pipe and cable locator is now available with a soft padded carrying case as well as the original hard-shell case. The soft-sided case is significantly smaller than ...