Volume 6, Issue 6

Construct your terminating wall away from the closet wall

June 1, 1998

In telecommunications closets, most terminating walls are made of plywood and built using 2 x 4 stud framing. Most are also located within inches of the closet wall. Dropping ...

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Create an adapter to use with your tone generator

June 1, 1998

Category 5 cable is so efficient at keeping out external signals that installers and technicians often have difficulty detecting tone through the cable jacket.

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Standard compliance simplifies termination-hardware identification

June 1, 1998

Although the tia/eia-606 administration standard specifies the method by which a network`s termination hardware should be marked, the standard frequently is not followed. In fact...

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Cable ties provide inexpensive cable management

June 1, 1998

When you are working with patch panels or racks that do not have built-in cord management, you can waste considerable time tracing the tangled path of a patch cord. When end-users...

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Use household label maker for consistent labeling

June 1, 1998

Handwritten labels in telecommunications closets (TCs) and at workstations can be sloppy or illegible. Also, if several people write the labels by hand, the writing will likely...

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Digital multimeters close the safety loop

June 1, 1998

If you`re looking for a small, fast, and inexpensive testing device to measure capacitance, continuity, current, resistance, and voltage, then you`re in luck. Manufacturers are...

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Essentials of campus telecommunications design

June 1, 1998

A telecommunications consultant can be described as a collaborator who assembles diverse technical knowledge about planning, design, and hardware and composes it into an artistic...

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Using digital multimeters safely

June 1, 1998

Of all the features to consider when purchasing a digital multimeter (dmm), safety is certainly at the top of the list. When selecting a dmm, be cognizant of the application or...

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Frontier takes premises cabling underground

June 1, 1998

When in doubt, trench. That`s the plan that Frontier Corp. (Rochester, NY) followed as an economical alternative to raised-floor access for premises cable and cabling equipment...

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"Fibertown" approach improves cable management

June 1, 1998

Maybe it is not necessary to explain to cabling managers how worrisome it was to manage the installation of new cables in the computer-room facilities at Freddie Mac (McLean, ...

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Coaxial cable finds niches outside campus networks

June 1, 1998

"Each of the past several years has been predicted by some to be the year of coaxial cable`s death," says Fred Galle, marketing manager with cable manufacturer CommScope (Claremont...