Volume 8, Issue 5

Categorical confusion

April 1, 2000

With the copper-cabling market flooded with a sea of new adjectives such as New Category 5, Enhanced Category 5, Power-sum Category 5, Category 6, Category 6a or b, and various...

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Are we professionals?

April 1, 2000

At the recent annual BICSI (Tampa, FL) meeting, the governmental relations forum hosted an open discussion about the place of the professional engineer (PE) in the cabling industry...

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Alliances target dynamic network performance

April 1, 2000

The power of the dynamic duo is contagious in the network performance arena. In one of the more recent alliances, Belden Electronics Div. (Richmond, IN) and Panduit Corp.'s (Tinley...

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INSTALLATION: Surge protection prevents network disasters

April 1, 2000

Electrical power problems can be extremely detrimental to data-communications networks. A power surge that lasts just one-millionth of a second can render a local area network...

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PRODUCT UPDATE: Demand for network versatility gives new life to raceways

April 1, 2000

In New York City's financial district, the demand for news is growing so quickly that information providers are hard-pressed to keep up. CNNfn.com, said to be the Internet's leading...

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Installers urged to insist on VPNs for remote-access needs

April 1, 2000

With new network installations comes the inevitable question from the service customer or building owner: "What about security?" When it comes to allowing remote access via broadband...

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Online test/measurement site increases telecom focus

April 1, 2000

The broad field of test-and-measurement equipment found at www.testmart.com (San Bruno, CA) now includes increasing coverage of products that will be of interest to telecommunications...

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DESIGN: TRW integrates a zone-cabling design

April 1, 2000

The next time you use northern Virginia's Dulles International Airport, stop and take notice of the new building located close to Route 267, the Dulles Airport Access Road, in...

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TECHNOLOGY: Efficiencies in outside-plant cable installation

April 1, 2000

For many cabling-plant managers, the different worlds of inside-plant and outside-plant (OSP) cable collide right in their own backyards-literally.

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STANDARDS: Assessing your outside plant: Basics for end users

April 1, 2000

The term "outside plant" (OSP) originated in the late 1800s. As Alexander Graham Bell's invention grew in popularity and the Bell System was formed, the new company needed to ...

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Premier Products

April 1, 2000

The OneTouch Series II Network Assistant family of Web-enabled handheld test tools troubleshoots network connections and diagnoses problems in switched Fast Ethernet and TCP/IP...