Volume 6, Issue 9

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Performance/administrative trade-offs

Sept. 1, 1998
Q: Does the tia/eia-568a Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard allow me to bring the cable into the closet, punch it down on a wall-mounted 110 block, off the...
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Prevent modem burnout from voltage surges

Sept. 1, 1998
Electrical surges, spikes, and overcurrents on data lines often damage or destroy modems, resulting in both downtime and additional expense.
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Route cable through a floor with a cross joist

Sept. 1, 1998
The occupants of a 150-year-old building wanted Category 5 cable run from a patch panel on the second floor of the building to an outer wall on the third floor. A cross joist ...
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Use braided rope to make pulling grip

Sept. 1, 1998
If you are not careful when pulling a cable through duct or conduit, the cable can twist out of shape, which can result in degraded performance.
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Determining what the customer wants

Sept. 1, 1998
Q: My company was recently asked to provide a solution to extend the network of one of our customers from its offices located on the ground floor of a 12-story building to the...

More content from Volume 6, Issue 9

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Installer "cheat sheets"

Sept. 1, 1998
In 1997, the University of Rochester Medical Center (Rochester, NY) was installing a new fiber-optic infrastructure. It was a huge project: a 4-million-square-foot building with...
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Five more connector choices

Sept. 1, 1998
Cabling Installation & Maintenance did a good job of covering the results of the TR-41.8.1 Working Group`s voting process on fiber-optic connectors.
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Locating a contractor by region

Sept. 1, 1998
Q: Who are the top consultants in the New York City metropolitan area for cabling-system design? Any ideas on where I can find more information on these firms?
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The myth of connecting hardware power-sum performance claims

Sept. 1, 1998
Vendors who claim that their connecting hardware is "power-sum" compliant appear to offer a performance advantage over those vendors who specify their hardware`s worst-case pair...
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Accommodating equipment cords

Sept. 1, 1998
In the April 1998 issue of Cabling Installation & Maintenance, page 8, T. Kirschbaum responds to my Cabling Installer Tip`.
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Get out and vote!

Sept. 1, 1998
A utumn is election time in America, and we at Cabling Installation & Maintenance certainly want you to get out and vote. However, we are interested in your doing more than just...