Table of ContentsContentsEvery bit counts in a structured cabling systemAs attention focuses on bit--error rate, a close look at its definition and causes is necessary.
Sights, sounds guide do-it-yourself cable fault-findersA building design team recently hired a cabling contractor to install in new corporate headquarters what it calculated to be 68,000 ft of telecommunications cable
WDM reaches the customer premisesWavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) is clearly expanding beyond the long haul into metropolitan-area and customer-premises networks
DesignDesigning a 20-year network infrastructureHow do you design a network infrastructure to help a large financial-services call center keep pace with the speed of technology over the next 20 years? The answer does not come easily
InstallationTechnology sent to the principal's officeA Texas school district transformed ex-military center into a wired learning environment.
Any school that takes over a major Air Force data center and uses it for its own network has to be serious about data communications
TechnologyModeling channel return loss and signal-distortion effectsAlmost four years ago, Quabbin Wire & Cable Co. Inc. began measuring local-area-network (LAN) channel return loss and studying its echo and distortion effects
StandardsTwisted-pair cabling standards forge aheadAfter the most recent Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA—Arlington, VA) TR-42 Engineering Committee meeting, we posed the following questions to Masood Shariff
TestingAutomated OTDRs take on 21st-century fiber testingOver the last 20 years, the optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) has established itself as the primary testing tool for installing, commissioning, maintaining, and repairing a singlemode fiber-optic cable network
Special ReportSurveying your site for peak wireless LAN performanceImagine that it's the "go-live" moment of your new wireless local-area-network (LAN) installation. Your company is creating its first mobile workforce, enabling associates to work wirelessly by providing instant access and interaction with information
Keep an eye out for BluetoothFew standards in the history of computing have taken off like Bluetooth, a radio-frequency-based short-range wireless-connectivity technology
Researchers believe wireless LAN market ready to explodeIf you pay attention to high-tech news, you must have noticed that everyone—and I mean everyone—is predicting that the wireless local-area-network (WLAN) market is about to go through the roof
Bridge makers try to cross over to the mainstreamIn the wireless data business, as elsewhere, there are hard sells and easy sells. Wireless bridges are a comparatively easy sell
Inbuilding wireless telephone systemsAfter ruggedized data-collection terminals, inbuilding wireless phones were arguably the first digital wireless communications devices to achieve a real success in the business market
Integrating wireless-to-wired and wireless-to-wirelessMuch has been written about wired-to-wireless integration, which is certainly to be expected. After all, wireless communications is often used in situations involving any scenario from the "last mile" to the "last foot"
Product UpdateConverters take on futureproof, managerial tasksIn both the premises and campus environment, media converters are letting designers, installers, and network managers avoid the expense of deploying expensive networking hardware to connect one type of cabling media to another
Crosstalk & FeedbackEndfaceNew cabling-installation market brings heightened competitionLately, owners of specialty voice and data cabling-installation firms have noticed an undeniable change in their marketplace: Where there was once a multitude of smaller, entrepreneurial companies all competing on the same playing field
EditorialIt's not just what you do, it's also how you do itProperly designing and installing a system bring us only 8% to 20% of the way toward total customer satisfaction.
Ask DonnaRemoving old cablingIs the National Electrical Code (NEC) changing its position on the removal of old cabling when installing new cabling?
Products & ServicesNew ProductsNew ProductsThe RapidTrak cable-support system manages high-performance cabling, including Category 5 and higher-speed copper and fiber-optic cable in above-ceiling, wall
Industry SpotlightBICSI Fall Conference rides winds of changeA conference that will grapple with emerging trends for voice, video, and data infrastructure/transmission will welcome a keynote speaker/author renowned for processing radical change in all types of businesses and organizations
Boom market ahead for copper-based, wireless home networksNew research on opportunities in the wired home market reinforces the optimism painted in previous studies, and the best news is that there appears to be no one road to success
Moves, Adds & ChangesDRG International, a manufacturer of modular office systems, has moved its headquarters, production facility, and showroom from Carlstadt, NJ, to a 100,000-sq-ft site in Pine Brook, NJ
Premier ProductsMultiservice boxThe WallSource six-gang multiservice box provides multiple power and communications connections at a single location without compromising aesthetics
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