"We need a better cable," was the rallying cry in Park City, UT, where the tia`s TR-41.8.1 working group met on a June day back in 1991. At the time, Masood A. Shariff was asked...
"When end-users finally understand the concept of `true cabling utility` for their network infrastructure, Category 5 utp cabling will and should be dead," says Pete D. Lockhart...
Category 5 unshielded twisted-pair (utp) cable has become so widespread, it`s difficult to imagine life without it. In fact, because the industry is growing and people and organizations...
Every now and then you`ll hear a television network promote its movie of the week as "a true story" or "based on actual events." What you are about to read is a little of both...
The fish tape is the cabling industry`s version of a reconnaissance platoon and one of a technician`s most trustworthy tools. Sent inside dark and sometimes threatening lengths...
While fiber-optic cabling has dominated the backbones of commercial buildings, it is safe to say that running fiber cable from the backbone to the desk has proceeded at a snail...
Other than at&t, how many current telecommunications-related companies can you name that were around near the turn of the century, the twentieth century, that is? John A. Siemon...
If you flip through the pages of industry magazines or walk the floor of a trade show, you`ll see that manufacturers in the cabling industry are constantly bringing new products...
In the near future, traditional video, audio, and security systems will be integrated into the low-voltage cabling infrastructure. However, "cabling installers may find this integration...
If you think you`re seeing the numbers 50/125 bandied about more often these days, it`s not your imagination. You`ll be seeing that combination used a lot more for premises-cabling...
Cabling installers and network administrators often hear and use the expression "mission critical." The term describes data that is so important that its timely and unmolested...
"The greatest compliment I ever received was during a bicsi exhibitors` hour. A man had brought his wife across the room to meet me. `This is Donna Ballast,` he said to his wife...
Sometimes an installer can carry out every instruction to the letter and still not achieve an established goal. The cabling industry, like everything else, is not perfect. But...
The accomplishments of the Telecommunications Industry Association, an affiliate of the Electronic Industries Alliance (tia/eia--Arlington, VA), over the past several years are...
David Strickler started a successful telecommunications equipment distribution company on a shoestring budget. His experience as a salesperson in the cabling industry, coupled...
Everyone likes predictions. They connect us with the future, help make us more familiar with the unknown, and if our own predictions come true, we feel like geniuses. The cabling...
Not every mishap in the cabling industry is cabling-oriented. Some blunders could happen to anyone in any industry; we just happen to hear about the blunders that put cabling ...
Not every significant advancement in the cabling-product arena breaks speed records for data transmission or involves laser pulses. Anyone who terminates cables for several hours...
In all his humility at being named one of the cabling industry`s most prominent people, Jay Warmke cites the often-paraphrased quotation by Groucho Marx and reinforced by Woody...
Any product that can do a big job on a modest budget is bound to catch on. Such is the case for vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (vcsel) technology. Basically, vcsels do...
The premises-cabling industry has experienced enormous changes over the past several years. To some, it has been like a roller-coaster ride; to others, a natural evolutionary ...
It may be "deja vu all over again" with this year`s shortage of fluorinated ethylene propylene (fep), a compound used to insulate Category 5 utp plenum cable. But neither the ...
Mike Tobias began his career in the cabling industry 20 years ago when he was looking for a new job. "I was desperate to find a job, and I noticed that when I drove by a local...
What can you say about the Edsel of the cabling industry? In retrospect, Category 4 cabling systems appear to be short-sighted and unnecessary. Billed as an improvement--however...
When Paul Kish talks about the cabling industry and the accomplishments of the Telecommunications Industry Association (tia--Arlington, VA), he likes to drop names--not to impress...
Anthony T. Minichiello, known to many of us as "Tony," is an industry icon. He humbly calls himself a foot soldier who has worked his way up through the ranks of the telecommunications...
What`s a year without a few surprises along the way? How about five years` worth of surprises? And by surprises, we don`t mean just the good things that have occurred. There were...
The pdt-7200 N+1 hot-swap power supply provides up to 7200 watts of multiple DC outputs in one 19-inch or two 3-inch rack-mount chassis. Ten front-mounted hot-swap slots are provided...
The following year, 1996, was something of a breakthrough time for Cabling Installation & Maintenance. The average size of each issue of the magazine increased substantially, ...
The magazine`s second year saw a number of significant changes. Monthly publication began in January, along with the popular "Ask Donna" question-and-answer column. In the summer...
Despite the fact that the year is only half over, 1998 has already been a busy one for Cabling Installation & Maintenance. In January, the magazine went through its first major...
In the four issues published in 1993, Cabling Installation & Maintenance was already highlighting some of the key issues that have had--and continue to have--great impact on the...
I suspect that few people in the modern, English-speaking world have not heard these words uttered by one or another of the wacky characters on the British television comedy series...
One of the themes running through last year`s issues was a heightened awareness of business trends, culminating in December in a special report that looked at the cabling market...
The Complete Optical Fiber Cabling Solutions catalog includes horizontal and backbone fiber-optic cabling-system products. The catalog features the opti-jack fiber-optic connector...
The seismic cabinet rack features an all-welded, heavy-gauge steel frame with integral mounting rails. The rack meets Bell Communications Research`s Zone 4 requirements. It comes...
The S110 bet family of 25-, 50-, or 100-pair fuseless indoor building entrance terminals provides voltage protection at building entry points where space is limited. The wall-...
When Sam and Lori Flaherty decided to start a cabling-installation business, they pooled their talents and formed a thriving business in Pennsylvania. In March, they celebrated...
A Web-based network design tool simplifies the network design and quoting process for resellers. The tool is available on the Internet and automatically configures standard local...
Cabling Installation & Maintenance`s third year began with the emergence of two important business issues and closed with the announcement of a third. Early in the year the magazine...
The 10Base-T surge-protection system provides individual port protection for up to 75 Ethernet ports. The unit includes the Model 3310 Card Cage and the Model 3311 Multiport Protection...
The Model 62-100 tone generator generates both continuous and alternating tones and functions through low-resistance circuits. A three-color light-emitting diode display indicates...
The WG Fiberfox (Fiber-Optic Xpert) otdr has a "qualification" mode that displays the quality of a fiber link. The otdr compares measurement results with specified limits and ...
A Fast Ethernet interconnection system for Cisco Catalyst 5000 systems consists of a 48-port RJ-21x telco patch panel, a 48-port 110-style patch panel, RJ-21x telco-to-RJ-21x ...
Omniscanner is the latest cable tester from Microtest and, according to the company, is the first such tester with a frequency range to 300 megahertz. The tester performs all ...
"I`ll bet you a chocolate milk shake that perhaps 60% or more of the installed high-performance twisted-pair and fiber-optic cabling systems will have to be tweaked or replaced...
Described by its manufacturers as a panel-to-panel cabling system, DataThing incorporates voice and data cabling into systems furniture and includes three components: in-feed,...
Many veteran copper-cabling installers have found themselves adapting to the role of novice fiber-optic-cabling installer as the demand for fiber-to-the-desk networks increases...
It is no accident that case studies describing the cabling plants at colleges and universities frequently appear in the pages of Cabling Installation & Maintenance. Academic institution...
Anyone who has ever had the pleasure of talking shop with Tony Edward Beam, global systems marketing director for netconnect premises-cabling systems at amp netconnect (Winston...
The duplex SC connector raised high hopes three years ago when the tia endorsed it in the commercial building wiring standard as an alternative to at&t`s proprietary, but popular...
Wouldn`t it be nice . . . if there were one worldwide standard for each of the premises-cabling segments, including cable, pathways and spaces, grounding and bonding, and administrative...
