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The end of March marks one year since calibration and service was available for the DSP 4300, and an end of an era for technicians certifying cabling with the Series. It was a long love affair. The DSP 100 was the first of the Series. It was...
Ironically my desire to speed in traffic evaporated when I bought a real sports car. But this story is not about me and my desire to push the limits. It’s about you. I was stopped in the hallway by three different engineers at the recent BICSI...
Everybody is talking about the cloud. Most of the chatter is about how it is changing the way we interact with data and our electronic devices. But what those of us in the cabling industry want to know about is how the cloud can represent business...
I received my new RCDD certificate, good through the end of 2014, in the mail last week. My reaction was more pensive than the elation I experienced after first passing the exam in 2003. The Registered Communications Distribution Designer...
If you’ve seen a set of Category 6 A Patch Cord Test Adapters, you may have wondered why the “A” is subscripted. It has to do with the standards that the adapters support. The little “A” denotes that the adapter meets the ISO/IEC specifications for...
When I was a technician we worried about, bad cable, poorly performing jacks, and doubted our testers. The threat of ongoing callbacks and the risk of large installation re-dos keep contractors up at night. Those that have passed the test of time...
When I was a cable installer, we often built redundant networks for voice and data communications. The data cabling was terminated on patch panels, and the voice grade cabling was terminated on wiring blocks. There are thousands of installations...
Fluke Network’s fiber optic technologist Seymour Goldstein just returned from Melbourn Australia where he attended IEC SC86C/WG1, and ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC25/WG3 meetings. I caught up with him this week and got a download from his trip. Seymour indicated...
Today we announced a new product, the TS100® PRO Cable Fault Finder, the first field technician tool that can detect multiple bridge taps on DSL cable lines and can detect taps up to 3,200 feet. Bridge taps are extra lengths of cable that are a...
I don’t register products that I buy. I am not worried about another email or phone call, black helicopters, or any of that. It’s just that most of the stuff I purchase isn’t worth the effort to fill out a form, find a stamp, and mail it to the...
