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A High Fiber Diet Is Essential
In a world where we all expect ubiquitous access to our information and apps, one network infrastructure technology in particular is catering for needs of future networks, that of optical fiber. As the network requirements in both the wired and wireless world fuel the...
Fiber Optic Cabling Safety and Inspection
This article covers the procedures required to work safely with fiber optic components as well as some general information. General Laser Background Lightwave/fiber optic systems, their associated test sets, and similar operating systems use semiconductor laser...
Testing and Troubleshooting Fiber Optic Cabling
This article describes some of the procedures for field testing and troubleshooting multimode and singlemode cabling systems. While some fiber optic cabling system parameters such as bandwidth are important, they are not normally affected by the quality of the...
Testing Copper Cabling
Field measurements verifying the transmission performance of cabling plant result in a more professional hand-off from the cabling contractor to a customer. This improves the overall effectiveness of providing premises networking solutions, resulting in higher...
Inspecting Twisted Pair Cabling Systems
This article provides the reader with some guidelines and practical experience to help inspect copper cabling installations. The guidance provided should help achieve installed cabling system that meet or exceed TIA, ISO and EN cabling standard requirements. All...