by Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
Patrick McLaughlin, chief editor of Cabling Installation & Maintenance, has covered the cabling industry for 12 years. Reading this blog, you may be surprised to discover how little he has learned in that time. He encourages everyone to use the comments section to set him straight on the opinions he voices in The Cabling Blog.
Matt Vincent is senior editor of Cabling Installation & Maintenance. A perpetual student of the cabling industry, he has more questions than answers...and welcomes your feedback!
On Tuesday, January 24, as President Barack Obama wrapped up his State of the Union address, the Communications Workers of America issued a statement praising the president "for his focus on creating an America that is built to last with an economy that...
In its January 2012 online newsletter, The Fiber Optic Association stated that it is starting a program "to make standards more accessible to the world of users, contractors, designers and installers." Specifically, the association is creating one-page...
In a five-minute video posted to YouTube, Adrian Young, senior technical support engineer with Fluke Networks, demonstrates the procedures for using the company's Category 5e, 6 and 6A patch-cord adapters with the DTX-1800 CableAnalyzer.In the video Young...
A two-minute video posted to YouTube by Cisco Systems walks viewers through five steps they can take to reduce or eliminate patch-cord clutter in data centers. The video is narrated by Douglas Alger, an IT architect for Cisco. (See books on data center...
A technician for Cablevision found a 500-pound bear asleep in a home in Hopatcong, New Jersey when the technician entered the home's basement to repair a cable line.NBC's New York affiliate, Channel 4, reported that the bear escaped the home and was later...
We have reported on several occasions, in multiple formats (articles, web seminars, guides), about the emergence and continued growth of cabling and other communications systems for healthcare facilities. Healthcare facilities, including hospitals, are...
The UK-based Daily Mail has reported that nearly 100 medical patients, including two with breast cancer, were forced to miss their scheduled surgeries because thieves stole copper cabling from a hospital's backup generator. The theft from Llandough...
A video posted to YouTube shows ILSINTECH's Swift S3 fusion splicer crashing to a hard floor then successfully fusing two optical fibers. In the 1:11 video, the splicer is picked up off a table and dropped from waist-height to the floor with a clanging...
Samisoni Nabilivalu has reported in The Fiji Times that a judge denied bail for five Telecom Fiji workers accused of stealing cable, even though the prosecutor didn't oppose bail. The story explains that Magistrate Janaka Bandara "told the five it was not...
American Polywater Corporation, provider of cable-pulling lubricants, recently announced the passing of the company's founder Nelson Jonnes. The company issued the following statement.Nelson Jonnes, the inventor of Polywater Cable Pulling Lubricants, has...
