Crônicas sobre cabeamento
The Making of an Expert Fiber Testing and Network Troubleshooter Part 2 of 3
Part 2 of a three-part series
Profile: Vangie Michenzi
Senior Fiber Optic Project Manager
BICSI Credentialed ITS Technician
Certified Data Center Designer and Installer
Advanced Communications Technology Services
25 de março de 2019
Gearing Up for Single-Pair Ethernet in the Enterprise
Maybe you’ve been hearing some buzz recently surrounding single-pair Ethernet and a couple of new standards in development to support 10 Mb/s Ethernet. If you’re thinking that 10 Mb/s seems like old school, you’re probably not alone. After all, 10BASE-T has been around since the 1990s and is rarely even used as a signaling rate in today’s LANs. But this latest 10 Mb/s application is something different, and it has countless opportunities for a wide range of low-speed, low-bandwidth IoT devices – all over a single pair.
20 de março de 2019
Why an MPO Inspection Camera? | An Interview with the Product Manager
This week, Fluke Networks announced the FI-3000 Fiber Inspector Pro, designed for inspecting the end faces of Multiple Push-On (MPO) fiber connectors. We sat down with Carolyn Carter, the Senior Product Manager for
12 de março de 2019
Single-Mode Fiber is On Rise. Você está pronto?
Many of you are likely seeing an increased use of single-mode fiber among your customers due to several benefits (primarily distance and bandwidth), connection to carrier networks, and emerging single-mode applications in development.
8 de março de 2019
Copper Keeping Pace with the Trace
When it comes to Tier 2 fiber testing, there are many smart people in our industry who can read an OTDR trace and pinpoint the type and location of a fault within the cable. And for those who might not be proficient in reading a trace, Fluke Networks’ OptiFiber Pro OTDR features advanced logic that automatically interprets the trace to provide a detailed and graphical map of events that includes the location of connectors, splices and anomalies.
25 de fevereiro de 2019
Beware the Polar Vortex!
This winter’s phenomenon popularly known as a “polar vortex” has kept many of us around the world under a blanket of snow and ice and well below freezing temps.
20 de fevereiro de 2019
What’s Wrong with My Cable?
While the most common causes of failures in twisted pair cabling include installation errors, defects found in poor-quality components (cables, connectors, patch cords, etc.), damage to the installed cable and incorrect tester set up, sometimes technicians want to know specifically WHY a link failed.
Based on which performance parameter failed testing, there are specific possible causes that a technician can consider. Let’s take a closer look.
13 de fevereiro de 2019
To Bundle or Not Bundle?
If you recently attended the BICSI Winter Conference in Orlando, picked up an industry publication or participated in a webinar, you’ve probably been exposed to plenty of information on PoE and its effect on cabling plants. By now, you may even be tired of hearing about heat rise in bundles of cables that are delivering remote power to devices and how this can cause insertion loss, degrade the cable and impact Ethernet transmission.
5 de fevereiro de 2019
Expert Profile: Vangie Michenzi, Senior Fiber Optic Project Manager, Advanced Communication Technology Services Part 1 of 3
Part 1 of a three-part series
Even though their work is essential to today’s world, you don’t hear much about the professionals who build and maintain the world’s communications networks. While their exploits may not have the wide interest of reality TV stars or politicians, I bet that you, like me, find them a lot more interesting. Tune into the Cabling Chronicles and follow along with us as we share #CablingStories from around the world.
30 de janeiro de 2019
Importância da verificação, qualificação e certificação de cabos
Quando se trata de testar uma instalação de cabeamento, essencialmente há três opções, verificação, qualificação e certificação.
Embora alguns recursos se sobreponham entre as ferramentas de teste conforme você sobe a escada hierárquica da verificação para certificação, cada tipo de teste responde a uma das questões seguintes para ajudá-lo a fazer a escolha certa.
23 de janeiro de 2019
