Volume 3, Issue 7

Managing cable bend radius

July 1, 1995

There is a common tendency to ignore bend-radius requirements when you are installing horizontal cabling at the wall plate and at the distribution frame. This practice can result...

Cabling Installation

Licensing, certification and registration

July 1, 1995

The Dictionary of Occupational Titles by the U.S. Department of Labor describes more than 12,000 occupations in the United States that have been classified by the nature of work...

Connectivity

568SC optical fiber link certification made easy

July 1, 1995

Your customer requests that you certify a fiber-to-the-desk installation in accordance with industry standards and procedures. The installation was undertaken using the new 568SC...

Connectivity

Inspecting connectors with a fiber microscope

July 1, 1995

Inspection of the end surface of a fiber-optic connector is one of the best ways to determine the quality of the termination and diagnose problems. However, a single direct viewing...

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Check your light source for power drift

July 1, 1995

An optical-loss test set is used to test end-to-end loss through optical fiber. It is impossible to obtain an accurate measurement of optical loss, however, if the power level...

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Spirally cut cable wrap

July 1, 1995

Heli-tube spirally cut cable wrap is offered in six materials: polyethylene, UV-resistant polyethylene, fire-resistant polyethylene, nylon, UV-resistant nylon and corrosion-resistant...

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The Emerging Handheld LAN Tester Standard

July 1, 1995

The Telecommunications Industry Association task group that is working on the definition of a transmission channel and its parameters is close to producing a standard, to be known...

Cabling Installation

Category 5 plenum cable still in short supply

July 1, 1995

There has been, and continues to be, a shortage of fluorinated ethylene propylene, which is used to insulate the paired conductors in Category 5 plenum cable. Manufacturers and...

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Premises fiber-optic certification and testing

July 1, 1995

Testing a newly installed optical-fiber cable plant is crucial to ensuring the overall integrity and long-term performance of a network.

Fiber

Fiber modem

July 1, 1995

T1/E1, TC1620 fiber-optic modems help eliminate line jitter by using an elastic buffer to re-adjust the incoming signal to the proper timing. Based on field-programmable gate ...

Connectivity

Coaxial-cable connectors-smaller, less expensive and easier to install

July 1, 1995

Coaxial-cable connectors may seem like dinosaurs--large, heavy and bulky--but they are in no danger of becoming extinct. In addition to serving the large installed base of Ethernet...