Ethernet is the leading network protocol in LAN applications and is increasingly gaining ground in new areas. At the start of the Ethernet “era” in the early 1980s, coaxial cabling dominated (thick Ethernet – yellow cable, thin or cheap Ethernet), from the 1990s...
Telephone Systems
The oldest (and probably most common) use for a cabling system is to carry telephone signals. In the old days, pairs of copper wires were strung throughout a building to carry the phone signal from a central telephone closet...
Developing a Request for Proposal
Developing the RFP involves quite a bit of work, depending on the size of both the project and your organization. The first part of the development process involves analyzing exactly what your current and future needs are....
Request For Proposal (RFP) Introduction
All journeys begin with a single step. In the case of a telecommunications infrastructure and/or hardware project that is not performed in-house, that first step is the creation of the Request for Proposal (RFP). The RFP...
Proper Cabling System Design
A proper cabling system design is paramount to a well-functioning cabling infrastructure. As with any other major project, the key to a successful cabling installation is planning. A proper cabling-system design is simply a plan for installing...
What the standards mean to your network cabling life cycle
With the IEEE 802.3an 10GBASE-T standard complete, performance demands on cabling infrastructures are expected to increase over the next few years. Cabling typically represents 5-7% of an overall network budget.
Some...
Multimode Fiber Advancement in Wideband Multimode Fiber (WBMMF) is the newest multimode fiber standard developed by a TIA Joint Task Group, Chaired by Panduit. WBMMF is referred to as OM5 in the ISO/IEC 11801: Information Technology – Generic Cabling...
What is Power over Ethernet?
Power over Ethernet (PoE) is a technology that enables powered devices, such as a VoIP phone, wireless access point, surveillance cameras, etc., to receive electrical power and data over the same Ethernet cable, supporting the...
When building a surveillance system, it is important to select IP network cameras that meet the needs of your organization and installation. This includes selecting specific types of IP network cameras to meet the location's special intricacies such as...
Ninety-nine percent of international data is transmitted by wires at the bottom of the ocean called submarine communications cables or under sea fiber cables. In total, they are hundreds of thousands of miles long and can be as deep as Everest Is tall.
The cables...
