Cabling Chronicles
Breaking the 100-Meter Barrier
It’s a common problem – you need to connect an end device that’s just a little too far from the nearest telecommunications room (TR). While industry standards limit the length of a channel to 100 meters, connecting the device maybe require a channel length of 150 meters or even 200.
There are four ways to address this problem. Let’s take a look at the options and their pros and cons.
September 23, 2020
Physical Infrastructure Management Reduces Network Downtime
Planet IRM and Fluke Networks have integrated LinkWare Live into the Planet Infrastructure Relationship Management software solution, allowing customers to access detailed cable test results from their physical asset network diagrams, providing a view we like to call “from network map to wiremap”. We asked the team at Planet to introduce their solution and the benefits of the integration – their article is below.
September 15, 2020
August 20, 2020
Re-Certified Test Reports: Are They Really Valid?
The first in a series of articles on re-certification.
July 23, 2020
An Update on IEC 61280-4-1 Edition 3, Multimode Attenuation Measurement of Installed Cabling Plant
Introduction
IEC and other organizations, such as TIA, routinely reaffirm standards every few years. Reaffirmation is a way for subcommittees to decide if a standard is “dated” or still applicable to current times. Technology and market needs change often which drive standards to change. IEC 61280-4-1 edition 2 was in such a cycle several years ago and it was decided an edition 3 was needed.
June 25, 2020
June 18, 2020
Cable Testing 101: Understanding Near and Far End Crosstalk
If you're at all familiar with copper cable, you've probably heard about crosstalk--the phenomenon by which a signal transmitted on one pair or one channel creates an undesired affect on another pair or channel.
June 10, 2020
Social Distancing the LinkWare Live Way
While everyone has been working smart and social distancing, LinkWare Live surpassed another milestone with over forty million test results uploaded since it was launched back in 2015. Last spring, we passed the twenty million mark meaning that LinkWare Live usage continues to grow exponentially, with total uploads doubling about every 12 months.
May 29, 2020
The OM Mantra
Adopted by TIA, the nomenclature for multimode fiber found in the ISO/IEC 11801 standard includes the prefix “OM.”
Rather than the spiritual mantra you hear in yoga class, most sources in our industry state that the acronym OM comes from “optical multimode” which seems rather obvious. But when it comes to the various nuances of each type of OM, the differences aren’t quite as obvious.
Let’s take a closer look.
May 22, 2020
