Cabling Chronicles
How to clean your cable and fiber network tester
Cleanliness has long been a best practice in fiber optic installation, but it’s not just the fiber end faces you need to worry about. If you think about how often your cabling tools and testers are touched by you and others on the job site, it’s clear that they too need to be cleaned.
While a fiber end face and your Fluke Network tester are cleaned for two different reasons, the goal in both instances is to clean without causing any damage.
June 11, 2021
How to Test Patch Cords and Fiber Jumper Cables - The Weakest Links
Equipment cords are an integral part of any network—whether it’s a fiber jumper used to make connections between fiber patching areas and switches in the data center or a copper patch cord out in the LAN to connect end devices to the work area outlet.
June 10, 2021
VLAN Troubleshooting with LinkIQ
Everyone in the ICT industry has heard of a local area network (LAN) and likely understands that it’s a network made up of a myriad of devices—computers, servers, Wi-Fi access points, VoIP phones, surveillance cameras, etc.—all connected in one physical location.
May 26, 2021
April 28, 2021
Introducing LinkIQ™️ – Fluke’s Newest Ethernet Cable, Network, and PoE Tester
Cabling is the number one cause of Ethernet problems in both commercial and industrial applications. With Fluke Networks’ newest Ethernet tester, LinkIQ™️ Cable + Network Tester, you can troubleshoot that cabling and the network it’s connected to. Save your company or clients hours of downtime, keeping the network up and running as efficiently as possible.
April 21, 2021
LinkWare Live passes 50M results uploaded as cabling contractors adopt the free cloud-based software for the new remote workplace
One result of the COVID-19 pandemic was the acceleration of digital transformation in business, government, and education. While many organizations were already on the path to going digital, the pandemic created a critical need to move ahead more quickly than originally planned.
April 13, 2021
How to Test if Your Ethernet Cables Support PoE
Power of Ethernet (PoE) is combining power and data communications in a single cable. As it’s become more and more popular, there are a huge array of devices that source and consume power and data through the same cable. Do all Ethernet cables support PoE? No, they don’t. So, how can you be sure the cables you selected can support PoE operation? Fluke Networks’ Jim Davis walks though the steps to make sure your cabling is ready to support PoE operation using an DSX CableAnalyzer.
April 8, 2021
Testing Profinet: The Basics
We all know by now that Ethernet has infiltrated the factory floor as the communication protocol of choice for exchanging data between devices and controllers, with applications like Modbus, EtherCat, EtherNet/IP and Profinet that are all based on Ethernet. The two leading applications—EtherNet/IP and Profinet together account for about 60% of the market, as both excel in supporting deterministic communication for real-time data and control.
March 24, 2021
Standards Update, February 2021
I bet you are all wondering what installed fiber optic testing standards are in process for this year. Here is a short list by committees for those of you that want to keep up to date.
March 10, 2021
