Network Cabling Contractors and Installers

A number of solutions on the market can help contractors and installers address the challenges of a changing networking landscape.

Versiv: Cabling Certification System from Fluke Networks.

Certifying a cable is one part of a process that starts with systems design and ends with systems acceptance. The faster that process goes, the more profitable you’ll be. Unfortunately, there are a lot of things that slow the process down - testing to the wrong limits, waiting for lead technicians to set up or troubleshoot, and incomplete results. Research from Fluke Networks shows that over 90% of contractors report dealing with issues related to set-up, testing, and reporting every month. It adds up to a week of wasted labor on a typical 1,000 drop job. Versiv is designed to eradicate these problems. Its ProjX™ System manages job requirements and progress from setup to systems acceptance, making sure all tests are completed correctly. The Taptive™ User Interface simplifies set up, eliminates errors and speeds troubleshooting. The LinkWare Live cloud service gives you control of the whole process: you can set up and track your testers and inspect results from any mobile device while the job is in process. It even lets you upload and integrate results from multiple testers at multiple jobsites so you can quickly generate reports with the de-facto industry standard LinkWare PC. Eliminate the problems and get to system acceptance faster with Versiv – and make money every time you use it.

Another offering from Fluke Networks, LinkWare PC, gives network professionals the ability to manage test results data from multiple testers with one application. It makes project setup easier by helping them quickly organize, edit, view, print, save or archive test results by job site, customer, campus or building. They can merge test results into an existing LinkWare database and then sort, search and organize the results by data fields or parameters. Any data uploaded to a computer with LinkWare ensures that the results stored came from the testers' memory.

Fluke Networks MultiFiber Pro Optical Power Meter and Light Source is the industry’s first MPO fiber trunk tester that validates the performance of all 12 trunk fibers in a single test, and reduces testing time by nearly 95%. MPO fiber trunks are the backbone for 10 Gbps, 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps high-speed data centers—the fastest growing segment in the industry. It takes an average of 6.5 minutes to set up and test each of the 12 fibers in an MPO trunk, but the MultiFiber Pro reduces that time to approximately 20 seconds (14 seconds for set up, six seconds for testing). For the average data center with 1,600 MPO trunks, the MultiFiber Pro tester can save contractors more than 155 hours of labor and $17,000 in costs, assuming an average burdened labor rate of $55.

Fluke Networks OptiFiber Pro OTDR is the first OTDR built from the ground up for enterprise fiber testing. OptiFiber Pro is focused on reducing costs while enhancing productivity and improving network reliability.

It has the industry’s only smartphone interface. The DataCenter OTDR configuration eliminates uncertainty and errors that occur when testing data center fiber. The products ultra-short dead zones enable testing of fiber patchcords in virtualized data centers.