Volume 6, Issue 5

Use conduit to route cables to an open rack

May 1, 1998

Cables routed through a dropped ceiling to an open rack can be unsightly, with cables often lying on the floor. One solution is a channel that runs alongside the rack (see "Keeping...

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Use scrap from fiber-optic cable to fish walls and short passages

May 1, 1998

If you find that your metal fish tape is too long and too unwieldy for a short pull or a wall that you must fish, use the fiberglass strength member from outdoor-use fiber-optic...

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Use conduit as a ball bearing

May 1, 1998

Rather than risk a back injury by pulling the file cabinet away from the wall, use conduit as a makeshift ball bearing to roll the cabinet forward.

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Retrieving a weighted string from an uninsulated wall

May 1, 1998

When you are fishing a weighted string from the top of an uninsulated wall down to a hole for a communications outlet, pulling the string through the outlet hole will be difficult...

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The incredible shrinking fiber-optic connectors

May 1, 1998

It`s no accident that noticeably bulky fiber-optic connectors are trimming down; it`s by design and by necessity. That`s because fiber connectors are seen as one of the most important...

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Crossconnect vs. interconnect

May 1, 1998

Q: What is the difference between a crossconnect and an interconnect? I understand that with an interconnect, no patch cords are allowed, so how are connections made?

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Copper versus fiber-to-the-desk

May 1, 1998

Q: With the bus speed of desktop computers topping out at 132 megabits per second and Alpha servers at about 267 Mbits/sec, why would some large organizations want to put fiber...

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Conduit-fill limit

May 1, 1998

Q: eia/tia-569, Table 4.4-1, "Conduit Sizing," indicates cable fill, but nowhere in the standard is there an indication of the basis of the table for design. The Telecommunications...

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Fiber-bandwidth article misleading

May 1, 1998

In his Endface article that appeared in the February 1998 issue (see "The impending fiber-bandwidth shortage," page 96), Scott Stevens makes several misleading statements. The...

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Cabling Installer Tips Watch

May 1, 1998

It has been a difficult transition using 110-type hardware. I come from the old school where we did a quality-looking job using 66-type blocks and crossconnections. The 66-type...

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Setting fiber-optic cabling standards

May 1, 1998

I read with amusement the July 1997 editorial (see "Four great mysteries of the cabling industry," page 5). The answer for "Sleepless in Nashua" regarding Mystery No. 4--which...