Q: Currently there are systems available that automatically telephone homes to alert parents that the school bus is approaching. My company designs and manufactures electronic...
Q: I am installing 500-metric-circular-mil-copper, 15-kilovolt cable with 133% insulation and a copper tape shield. The cable manufacturer gives a minimum bend radius of 12 times...
When you plug the equipment cord into the network equipment and the work-area cord into the network interface card on a computer you either get a link light or you don`t. When...
Anumber of recent magazine articles and misinformation in the cabling industry have spread fear, uncertainty, and giga-confusion regarding the category or level of cabling required...
In his article in the July 1998 issue (see "Years-old cabling carries end-users toward future," page 55), Patrick McLaughlin states, "By purchasing all the cable, connectivity...
The licensing of telecommunications installers in Massachusetts is shelved--for now. House Bill 2288, which proposed the licensing, had not made it out of committee when the legislative...
It was interesting to read your editorial regarding the Y2K bug (see "Will the Y2K bug KO the cabling industry?", August 1998, page 7) and how it may affect the cabling industry...
Some in the cabling industry dismiss the Year 2000 problem as something that information-technology departments need to worry about. While it is true that the physical plant is...
In a high-technology industry like cabling, it is sometimes easy to forget that we are in business. Rapid technological change focuses us on keeping up with electronics and optics...