Volume 9, Issue 7

Distributor specifications go beyond-the-standard

June 1, 2001

At a time when standards-based specifications and real-world applications demand more than ever from copper-based and fiber-optic cabling systems, several distributors offer programs...

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Premier Products

June 1, 2001

Panduit Network Connectivity Group's zone cabling boxes separate the barriers of plenum/non-plenum environments and the workspace. Each box serves as a high-capacity main cable...

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Cabling systems for total building integration

June 1, 2001

We have become accustomed to engineering successes over the last 70 years or so. Rarely do technology developments not materialize as promised

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Media converters remove hurdles to horizontal fiber distribution

June 1, 2001

The products' cost-effectiveness and the flexibility they give users make them a here-and-now choice

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Key telephone system pushing POTS off the stove

June 1, 2001

The home environment is rapidly becoming an important market segment for the cabling installer, as many families now have multiple telephone lines. Multiple telephone lines are...

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lping you find your way around

June 1, 2001

When you're reading about a new cabling product just introduced by Company X and you're left with only a city location to hold onto, what good is that?

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Upgrade gives tester more diagnostics, languages

June 1, 2001

The latest upgrade to Micro-ztest's (www.microtest.com) OMNIScan-ner2 handheld cabling tester and the associated Scanlink Tools software gives the product additional testing capabilitie...

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Testing readiness of systems with 50- and 62.5-micron fiber

June 1, 2001

Using appropriate equipment is critical to determining your multimode fiber's capabilities

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The importance of measuring fiber loss and distances

June 1, 2001

A vendor's estimation is no substitute for an actual measurement

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Ceramic-ferrule shortage neither lethal nor long-term

June 1, 2001

Professionals in the cabling industry who have tried to purchase single-fiber connectors with 2.5-millimeter (mm) ceramic ferrules for multimode fiber anytime in the recent past...

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Cat 6 UTP connectors: Has copper topped out?

June 1, 2001

Bigger, better, and faster seem to be the mantra of almost every "new" product on the market today. And these words ring ever so true when it comes to new Category 6 cabling systems...