The human body is the toughest tool in the tool belt. It is something that cable installers utilize every day on the job-pushing muscles to the limit when hoisting cable, lifting...
On a project I am working on, a 600-pair, PE-rated outside plant cable is being installed between two buildings. One end is to be terminated in the main computer room, which has...
Fiber Instrument Sales' free 19th Edition fiber-optic catalog features 3,000 communications products. Some of the products include: the Optical Verifier (OV-2) "Meter Reader,"...
Technicians can use label sticker books to label cables, but these stickers are small, and it takes time to write tiny numbers on them to identify the location
Test-equipment users who have been frustrated by the inability to access the equipment manufacturer's original documentation on the product may find a new online resource to be...
The Siemon Co. (Watertown, CT) has acquired the fiber-optic division of Advanced Custom Applications (ACA-Belle Mead, NJ). ACA holds several patents in fiber-optic connection ...
Fluke Networks (Everett, WA) has purchased fiber-optic test-equipment maker Fotec (Medford, MA), including all of Fotec's products and technology. The deal includes Fotec's "Fiber...
Parks Associates (Dallas, TX), a market research firm long known for future-gazing at residential technologies and services, is now looking at similar issues overseas
Quest Controls' Telsec 1500WM wall mount is a microprocessor-based system that lets you use direct or remote monitoring to protect remote facilities, including huts, controlled...
A BICSI (Tampa, FL) Region 1 breakfast meeting held last November, and more recently BICSI's January conference, included presentations on an impending update to the National ...
