Cabling Installation & Maintenance articles from January 2005

Cabling Installation & Maintenance archives from January 2005

This is like deja vu all over again.(cabling installation)(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... I figure if I'm going to blatantly steal a quote as the title for my editorial, I might as well steal from Yogi Berra, who perhaps has offered the most quotable misquotes of all time. The two illustrations on this page brought to mind the...

Hospital cabling systems require critical care.(Ask Donna)
January 1, 2005... Q: We are currently designing our new hospital to use a Category 6 horizontal and would like to use it for our cable TV from the telecommunications room (TR) out to the patient rooms. We would feed the TRs with a coaxial feed from the cable...

Coping with abandonment: business strategies for cable removal: educate the customer, build trustworthy business relationships, and then put it in writing as part of the installation package.(design)
January 1, 2005... Write the removal of abandoned cable into an RFQ. Bring the prospect of cable removal to established customers, and be forceful when you bring up the topic to a new customer. That's the strategic advice from cabling contractors who are trying...

Controlling the world's most powerful neutron beam: atomic-research lab exposes its cabling system to extreme conditions, both during and after construction.(installation)(Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory )
January 1, 2005... The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) being built at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN is the largest United States government scientific project under construction. When completed in 2006, it will be the world's most powerful...

Ethernet and UTP are wedded, for better or worse: history and future developments show the power of an installed base.(technology)(unshielded twisted-pair)(Cover Story)
January 1, 2005... In 2002, many in the cabling industry believed Category 6 was going to be the "do-all, end-all" unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cabling, with fiber waiting in the wings as the next logical choice for speeds greater than Gigabit Ethernet. But the...

Unweaving a wireless web of standards and applications: a host of operating speeds and interoperability issues face wireless LAN users.(standards)(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
January 1, 2005... For a transmission method that has been on the books for a little more than five years, wireless local area networking (WLAN) certainly has its share of standard specifications from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers...

Category 5e, 6 cabling manufacturers strive to differentiate their products.(Industry spotlight)(Draka Comteq and Ortronics )
January 1, 2005... Two manufacturers are trying to differentiate themselves from the market as they come out with new Category 5e and 6 solutions. New solutions from Draka Comteq (Franklin, MA; www.drakacomteq.us) and Ortronics (New London, CT;...

Network analyzing products feature ruggedness, portability.(Industry spotlight)(products from Fiber Instrument Sales, Agilent Technologies and Tempo)
January 1, 2005... Three manufacturers believe the cabling market is ready for innovative network analyzing products and OTDRs. Companies that are now introducing network analyzing products include: * Fiber Instrument Sales (Oriskany, NY;...

Myriad market forces calling for UTP.(Industry spotlight)(unshielded twisted-pair)
January 1, 2005... There's no doubt among many in the industry that a 10GBase-T standard and Augmented Category 6 cabling will enable unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) to remain the predominant cabling choice. For more than a year, the industry has been abuzz...

Pretium provides tip-to-tip system for LANs, data centers.(Industry spotlight)(LANscape Pretium Solutions from Corning Cable Systems )
January 1, 2005... Late last summer, Corning Cable Systems (www.corning.com/ cablesystems) introduced LANscape Pretium Solutions, a tip-to-tip system for local area networks (LANs) as well as data centers. The system combines innovative products--including...

The advantages of staying flexible: the degree of your success often depends on your materials.(News in Technology)(Advertisement)
January 1, 2005... There are many instances during a network construction project where owners and builders are challenged to balance current and future capacity needs against existing budget constraints. Increasingly, managers, engineers and contractors are...

TrueNet structured system includes ADC, Krone elements.(Industry spotlight)
January 1, 2005... Officially introduced in November, the TrueNet structured cabling system from ADC (www.adc.com) is an integrated portfolio of enterprise networking solutions from ADC and recently acquired Krone. Spokesmen for ADC say that the system brings...

Labeling systems create lasting impressions: this segment of the cabling industry has come a long way from the days of pen-style markers and electrical tape.(product update)
January 1, 2005... When it comes to labeling network cabling systems, it's important to do it right the first time to make an impression that will last through the life of the cabling system. Once a job is installed and the naming convention selected, it...

Product update: marking and labeling equipment.(Directory)
January 1, 2005... Product Update: Marking and Labeling Equipment Applications: Indoor (I), Outdoor (O), Hazardous Product Name Environment (H) ...

Cable harness mounts.(New Products/BICSI Winter Conference 2005)
January 1, 2005... Waytek now carries cable harness mounts, from Hellerman Tyton, in two styles: an arrow push-mount and fir tree-mount. To mount on the harness, contractors either use tape or a cable tie, and then push it into a hole in the panel. The cable...

Zone cabling enclosures.(New Products/BICSI Winter Conference 2005)
January 1, 2005... Leviton Voice & Data has announced the release of a full line of enclosures designed to house telecommunications equipment for zone cabling applications, plus enclosures for wireless access points. Telecommunications enclosures are available in...

Power over Ethernet midspan.(New Products/BICSI Winter Conference 2005)
January 1, 2005... PowerDsine's 3001 PoE Midspan is a one-port power hub that is compliant with the IEEE 802.3af PoE standard. The newest member of the PowerDsine 3000 Midspan family is designed for remote powering of WLAN access points and other low-port density...

Handheld splicers.(New Products/BICSI Winter Conference 2005)
January 1, 2005... Sumitomo Electric Lightwave's new TomCat handheld splicer product line is designed for affordability and portability. The splicers are suited for the downstream FTTP/FTTH network, the final drop to the premises or home, within-premises...

Data loggers.(New Products/BICSI Winter Conference 2005)
January 1, 2005... AEMC has introduced Sentinel data loggers, which record true RMS measurements of AC voltage and current parameters. The voltage loggers provide differential three-phase inputs and measure up to 600 volts. They include integral flexible current...

Wire manager.(New Products/BICSI Winter Conference 2005)
January 1, 2005... Snake Tray's Snake Charmer is a new wire manager for workstations. Snake Charmer is designed to help manage cable chaos and avoid workplace accidents by organizing the cables in an easy-to-use module that is designed with ample capacity for...

Jacketless multimedia cables.(New Products/BICSI Winter Conference 2005)
January 1, 2005... Honeywell's Genesis Series line of Profusion jacketless multimedia cables are designed to provide a simple, cost-efficient solution for residential structured cable applications. The Profusion jacketless design, says the company, translates...

LAN toner.(New Products/BICSI Winter Conference 2005)
January 1, 2005... Tempo's recently launched AT8L LAN Toner 2 is designed for the installation and maintenance of commercial voice and data wiring systems. It has been built to meet the needs of installers who want one tool to track cabling and determine problems...

Wireless solutions.(New Products/BICSI Winter Conference 2005)
January 1, 2005... Ortronics Inc.'s new wireless solutions are designed for large deployments, such as enterprises, financial institutions, education, healthcare, and retail. The company claims its wireless solutions are fully integrated with the structured...

Fusion splicing kit.(New Products/BICSI Winter Conference 2005)
January 1, 2005... KITCO Fiber Optics has designed a portable fusion splicing kit that contains all the necessary tools to let you splice fibers and repair broken or severed optical-fiber cable runs, even in harsh field environments. The splicing kit is housed in...

Textile-based innerduct.(New Products/BICSI Winter Conference 2005)
January 1, 2005... Federal Mogul Systems Protection Group's CableGuide SC is a flexible, single-cell constructed, textile-based innerduct. CableGuide is engineered to improve space utilization up to 85% by conforming to the shape of cable instead of holding a...

Lay-in grounding lug.(New Products/BICSI Winter Conference 2005)
January 1, 2005... Harger Lighting & Grounding has introduced its Two-Hole Aluminum Lay-In Lug (LI2/0142). The dual-rated, electrotin plated aluminum lug is designed to provide grounding attachment of copper or aluminum conductors (14 AWG to 2/0) to racks and...

Bulk qualification system.(New Products/BICSI Winter Conference 2005)
January 1, 2005... Fluke Networks claims that its NetDSL Bulk Qualification System is the only portable bulk pair test system designed to fully test, pre-qualify and document the copper distribution network (F2 plant) for ADSL24+service. NetDSL provides automatic...

Handheld fiber-test system.(New Products/BICSI Winter Conference 2005)
January 1, 2005... With a memory capacity of 1,000 data items and the ability to transfer data to a PC via a USB connection, EXFO's 600 handheld series includes the FOT- 600 Optical Loss Test Set, the FPM 600 Power Meter, and the4 FLS- 600 Light Source. The set...

1U cabinet meets DOT specs.(New Products/BICSI Winter Conference 2005)
January 1, 2005... Superior Modular Products' 1U rack-mount optical-fiber cabinet has been written into the National Department of Transportation (DOT) specifications and has been implemented by the DOT of Houston. In response to the DOT's request for solutions...