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    Amateurs, please step away from the patch cords: The week's top stories

    March 24, 2017
    Also: Server room cabling disaster gets big time makeover; How endface contamination will degrade your fiber network.
    Amateurs, please step away from the patch cords: The week's top stories
    Amateurs, please step away from the patch cords: The week's top stories

    Here are the cabling, wireless, and data center infrastructure industry's top trending news stories from the past week, as compiled by Cabling Installation & Maintenance and CablingInstall.com.

    1.) When amateurs are in charge of cabling decisions

    Repeatafterme

    Repeat after me: “Clients should never be allowed to install their own patch cords.”

    2.) Server room cabling disaster gets big time makeover

    Posted to Youtube last month by LinusTechTips, new videos depict a soup-to-nuts server room cable management and re-organization project.

    3.) Endface contamination will degrade your fiber network

    Minor MPO/MTP endface contamination in PAM4 modulation systems will greatly erode 200G/400G link budgets, warns AFL
    Minor MPO/MTP endface contamination in PAM4 modulation systems will greatly erode 200G/400G link budgets, warns AFL

    By BRIAN TEAGUE, Sticklers Fiber Optic Cleaners - Because dust particles are so small, dust can be locked into place on and endface by an electrostatic charge. This can have a huge and deleterious effect on performance of the fiber.

    4.) Spectacular data center cabling

    Spectacular data center cabling
    Spectacular data center cabling

    "Data Center Cabling: Examples of what it SHOULD look like."

    5.) Watch this time-lapse untangling of a data center rack

    Via Youtube capture, one data center cabling installer documents his meticulous untangling of a particularly gnarly IT wiring nightmare.

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