Crônicas sobre cabeamento
Série 101: O que são TCL e ELTCTL?
Maybe you’ve seen TCL and ELTCTL listed on your cable spec sheet, or perhaps you’ve noticed them on your DSX CableAnalyzer, and you’re simply not familiar with these parameters, what they indicate and if they are required. Let’s take a closer look.
What is Mode Conversion?
31 de maio de 2017
Clean Cords are Reliable Cords
Or, what a minor obsession with reliability looks like.
24 de maio de 2017
Fluke Networks is 25 Years Old This Month!
Twenty five years ago this month, a highly animated character popped into my cubicle at Fluke. He had a mandate: find a new business opportunity for Fluke within 100 days. To assist this effort, he also had $100.000 and the authority to employ anyone in the company in the crazy scheme. For some reason, he wanted me, and for some other reason, I couldn’t resist his proposition.
17 de maio de 2017
Top 5 Fiber and Cable Cleaning Tips from the Experts
Let’s face it. Spring cleaning stinks. I mean, does anyone actually enjoy cleaning? I don’t know about you, but I certainly am not counting down my winter days until I can scrub the house top to bottom only to have it quickly soiled by muddy feet and paws, beach sand, cut grass and whatever else wanders in with the warmer weather.
But dirt happens. And while cleaning may not be a barrel of fun, there is always some sense of satisfaction when it’s done and everything is looking its best.
10 de maio de 2017
Where Will I Testing Cat 8 Cabling Systems with Cable Tester
By now you probably know that Category 8 cabling was approved by the TIA TR-42.7 Copper Cabling Subcommittee, and maybe you've even heard that Fluke Networks introduced the DSX-8000 CableAnalyzer, the first field tester independently verified and endorsed to meet all of the requirements for the Cat 8 field testing standard.
3 de maio de 2017
Série 101: Noções básicas sobre o ato de balanceamento de cabeamento de cobre
You have likely heard copper network cabling referred to as balanced twisted-pair copper cabling, and maybe you’ve heard of the testing parameter referred to as DC resistance unbalance. But what does all this balance-related terminology really mean, and why should you care?
It’s All About Balance
26 de abril de 2017
What’s the Deal with OM5 Cable Standards – WBMMF?
Guest Posting from Corning Optical Communications
OM5, previously known as wide band multimode fiber or WB MMF, has been quite the hot-button topic as the standards have been widely debated and are now finally concrete.
So what is OM5 exactly? Most simply, it’s a version of the OM4 fiber with additional bandwidth characterization at 953 nm.
19 de abril de 2017
Pros and Cons of Bend Insensitive Multimode Fiber
Lately, I have been getting questions about why bend insensitive multimode fiber (BIMMF) can’t be used in test cords. The argument is that non-BIMMF (e.g., “traditional” fiber) is becoming more difficult to procure and installers need the flexibility to buy something off the shelf. Additionally, requests are being made to change one IEC testing standard to not mandate the use of non-BIMMF in test cords. Let’s examine this closer and explore the consequences.
13 de abril de 2017
Simplify the Complexity of Fiber Certification with TRC
No, not what Deedee would ask Dexter in his lab, what does that button do on the bottom of the FI-1000 video inspection camera? It turns out it has a really helpful function that I want to share with you here.
5 de abril de 2017
Benefits of Fiber Optic and Passive Optical LAN Test
In recent years, passive optical LANs have gained significant popularity as an alternative to horizontal copper structured cabling in a variety of enterprise spaces.
The technology brings fiber out of the riser backbone and data center, and with that comes the need for fiber technicians to test these systems out in the horizontal space.
Let’s take a closer look at these passive optical deployments.
How Do They Work?
29 de março de 2017
