By: Howard Marks
More significant than the stretch on the conductors because of hanging cables is the strain on the connectors from the weight. I’ve seen several failures at the connector pin-conductor interface. This...
View ArticleBy: Julien Goodwin
One to add *never* crimp your own cables at >= 1gb, sure it will probably work, but it’s highly likely to be worse then a prebuilt one and wouldn’t pass a certification test. Stocking a variety of...
View ArticleBy: javelin
Thoughts on using mjr21 to do inter rack cabling? If you are having to pull multiple runs its quite simple, but lack of demand means lead times arent in the same timeframe as pulling them yourself
View ArticleBy: Etherealmind
In general terms, I don’t believe in copper cabling any more. It’s a technological dead end. The technical performance of MJR21 is only Cat5 AFAIK and not Cat6 so not suitable for 10GBaseT (well, I...
View ArticleBy: Etherealmind
What ? For cabling ? I don’t get involved in vendor selection or have much knowledge of the cable manufacturers so I couldn’t make any recommendations. There are some differences between them but I’m...
View ArticleBy: sganpat
Don’t call it 20 tips, give 10 and then say more later. Call it 10 Tips and then you can have another post with more. Great tips by the way. Half of these I’ve never considered.
View ArticleBy: Engineers_R_alwaysright
Greg, Nice Read. I would add as being network Engineer m,an years myself… Use ONLY AMP precision RJ connectors. It is OK to crimp your own as long as you have a Betts or other high quality crimper…...
View ArticleBy: Etherealmind
I disagree. I believe it’s completely impractical to make Cat6 grade patch leads by hand. You really need the jigs to make them, and testing equipment to validate them.
View ArticleBy: Paul Walton
The overtightning of cable ties will also crush the cable. There are several reports by the IEEE to show how throughput is reduced when a cable tie is over tightened even by hand. Please don’t use the...
View ArticleBy: Michael Kantowski
I would add the following: 1) Stock (or plan for) many different patch cable lengths. You should have 1/2 foot, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 foot cables for TOR installations. It’s OK to have a couple of cables...
View ArticleBy: network cabling world
There is no way length should be an issue as all jobs these days require us to submit test results. All cable runs need to be under 295′. When cable tray is overloaded you can also have overheating of...
View ArticleBy: jamassica
I have some basic information of this Cable. Like: 4-pair unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable, 24 AWG Copper Clad Aluminum, Verified Compliant With EIA/TIA /ETL, Low Smoke, CMP Plenum rated jacket. Can...
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