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Super-size your LAN with fiber

Fiber optic technology frees the Local Area Network (LAN) from the confines of a single building, allowing a LAN to extend across a campus or a metropolitan area. Read how fiber optic components affect repeaterless transmission distance and how Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) ownership may require self-assessment of network performance.
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(1.32 MB)

LinkRunner AT White Paper

Increasing Productivity by Adopting Testing Best Practices
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(647.85 KB)

Next-generation Ethernet Performance Measurement White Paper

Next-generation Ethernet Performance Measurement White Paper
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(967.04 KB)

Guide To Deploying And Troubleshooting Video In The Enterprise

Guide To Deploying And Troubleshooting Video In The Enterprise
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(6.43 MB)

Video Traffic Technology Brief

An Introduction to Video in the Enterprise
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(580.86 KB)

Fixing Ethernet and Fast Ethernet Link Problems White Paper

Gain insight into the basics of Ethernet auto-negotiation; problems that occur and how to detect and repair links that fail.
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(1.59 MB)

Six Reasons Certification Is Essential White Paper

This paper identifies the specific benefits afforded by cable certification and how much it pays back to the network owner.
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(99.87 KB)

Best Practices for Fiber Optic Installation Start with Inspection

This white paper will help you understand what to look for and when, how to inspect and clean and best practices for installation.
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(368.97 KB)

Frontline LAN Troubleshooting Guide

This comprehensive guide provides frontline network troubleshooters with practical advice on how to maintain LANs and solve common layer 1 and 2 problems.
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(2.58 MB)

Fiber Test Best Practices: Tier 2 Certification

Fiber Test Best Practices: Tier 2 Certification
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(136.71 KB)

Overlay vs. Integrated Wireless Security

This paper examines 3 approaches for Wireless Intrusion Prevention.
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(809.70 KB)

Dynamic Wireless Threat Protection

Analyst Lisa Phifer examines dynamic threat protection technology for wireless intrusion prevention systems (WIPS).
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(1.14 MB)

802.11n Primer

This paper explains the essential technologies used by 802.11n and their impact on network planning, installation, and operation.
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(959.22 KB)

802.11a,b,g,n Compatibility

This paper takes a detailed look at the impact of coexistence of 802.11n with legacy a/b/g networks.
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(568.36 KB)

Fiber OneShot PRO Case Study

Major U.S. CATV Service Provider Finds Problems Fast with Fluke Networks Fiber OneShot PRO
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(645.21 KB)

Performance Management Solution Brief

This solution brief will focus on key attributes and best practices for organizations looking to successfully deploy a performance management strategy across their enterprise.
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(831.55 KB)

How to Certify or Re-certify Twisted-Pair Cabling for 10Gb/s Ethernet

Learn how new installation and testing guidelines help combat Alien Crosstalk.
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(1.10 MB)

Choosing Between Optical Loss and Optical Time Domain Reflectometry? Choose Both.

Choosing Between Optical Loss and Optical Time Domain Reflectometry? Choose Both.
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(476.27 KB)

Datacenter Virtualization White Paper

Connectivity in the Virtualized Datacenter: How to Ensure Next-Generation Services
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(1.83 MB)

Certifying Power Over Ethernet To Ensure Service Success

Certifying Power Over Ethernet To Ensure Service Success
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(587.27 KB)

How to cable 802.11n Wireless Access Points

This paper discusses the impact 802.11n will have on cabling as well as what installers and enterprises should do to address them.
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(357.64 KB)

White Paper: The High Cost of A Low-Cost Cable Certification Tester

The myriad of high hidden costs you may encounter when using a “low-cost” tester.
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(769.48 KB)

Selecting a Network Recorder for back-in-time analysis to solve intermittent problems and unexpected events

Selecting a Network Recorder for back-in-time analysis to solve intermittent problems and unexpected events
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(91.83 KB)

Application Centric Analysis White Paper

Application-Centric Analysis Helps Maximize the Value of Wireshark
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(3.81 MB)

Field Testing Multimode 10Gb/s (and beyond) Fiber Permanent Links

Field Testing Multimode 10Gb/s (and beyond) Fiber Permanent Links
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(4.53 MB)

Outside Plant Documentation Projects: Justification and Implementation

Fluke Networks' major area of expertise is in helping telephone companies improve their network management operations processes. This White Paper covers best practices in support of new network investments and to reduce plant management capital expenditures.
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(1.31 MB)

Guide to Troubleshooting Application Problems

This comprehensive 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. Learn the fundamentals of how applications work, how they flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems.
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(7.75 MB)

Solving Carrier Issues in Transition to Next Generation Services

Fluke Networks is in the business of helping carriers develop processes has next-generation processes to deliver these next-gen services. Our new whitepaper, “Solving Carrier Issues in Transition to Next Generation Services,” shows how automated testing solutions can help carriers deliver “triple play” services with the speed and quality customers expect.
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Wireless Access and Security White Paper

Demystifying Wireless Network Access and 802.1X Security
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(494.01 KB)

Application Centric Analysis White Paper

Application-Centric Analysis Helps Maximize the Value of Wireshark
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(3.81 MB)

Meet the Challenge to Deliver Outstanding End User Experience

Meet the Challenge to Deliver Outstanding End User Experience
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(838.40 KB)

White Paper: Field Testing Installed Optical Fiber Cabling

This joint white paper prepared by Legrand | Ortronics and Fluke Networks reviews best practices for the technician performing field tests on installed optical fiber cabling.
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(1.19 MB)

Network Problems on the Frontline: Turning techs into fast problem solvers White Paper

Network Problems on the Frontline: Turning techs into fast problem solvers White Paper
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(2.26 MB)

Diagnosing the cause of poor application performance

Outlines the common causes of application performance problems and why having the right diagnostic tool enables quicker identity and resolution.
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(1.12 MB)

Network Problems on the Frontline: Turning techs into fast problem solvers White Paper

Network Problems on the Frontline: Turning techs into fast problem solvers White Paper
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(2.26 MB)

Diagnosing the cause of poor application performance

Outlines the common causes of application performance problems and why having the right diagnostic tool enables quicker identity and resolution.
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(2.72 MB)

Frontline LAN Troubleshooting Guide

This comprehensive guide provides frontline network troubleshooters with practical advice on how to maintain LANs and solve common layer 1 and 2 problems.
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(2.58 MB)

Why You Should Consider a Hardware Based Protocol Analyzer

Why You Should Consider a Hardware Based Protocol Analyzer
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(735.56 KB)

Miercom Lab Test Report for ClearSight Analyzer

Miercom Lab Test Report for ClearSight Analyzer
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(354.74 KB)

Whitepaper: Troubleshooting Your Industrial Network

Whitepaper: Troubleshooting Your Industrial Network
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(242.33 KB)

Finding your way in the maze of industrial Ethernet standards

Finding your way in the maze of industrial Ethernet standards
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(436.36 KB)

Ethernet In A Harsh Environment - White Paper

Whitepaper that discusses the unique issues that can arise when you deploy Ethernet in an industrial environment, and how to avoid production downtime caused by these issues.
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(60.48 KB)

White Paper: Benefits Of Industrial Standards In Industrial Ethernet Component Selection

The Role Standards Play in Selecting Industrial Ethernet Components
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(69.31 KB)

Testing DNS Servers Using ClearSight Packet Generator

Testing DNS Servers Using ClearSight Packet Generator
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(812.26 KB)

Ensuring the Health of Tomorrow's Fiber LANs, White Paper

How to Choose an OTDR to Test and Troubleshoot LAN Infrastructure
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(401.29 KB)

Advanced OTDR Analysis

This article discusses some of the advanced OTDR techniques that expert technicians use to perform during testing.
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(155.93 KB)

VLAN Best Practices White Paper

Learn about VLAN challenges, tags and tagging technologies, maintaining VLANs and how good documentation practices will help troubleshoot problems and optimize VLAN performance.
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(600.90 KB)

Troubleshooting Remote Site Networks Best Practices

See how to deliver a high level of network service at remote sites using the best practices outlined in this white paper.
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(598.04 KB)

Voice over IP (VoIP) Basics for IT Technicians White Paper

VoIP brings a new environment to the network technician that requires expanded knowledge and tools to deploy and troubleshoot IP phones.
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(436.16 KB)

Don't gamble with SNMPV3: make sure your upgrade improves security with these best practices

This paper discusses best practices and how using the proper equipment will make the process and ongoing monitoring easier and more accurate.
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(411.86 KB)

Securing your network from the inside: adding a portable layer of protection

Outlines common causes of security threats and how having the right tool can quickly identify those threats.
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(179.11 KB)

The Invisible Threat: IPV6 on your network White Paper

The Invisible Threat: IPV6 on your network White Paper
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(504.06 KB)

Fiber Test Best Practices: Tier 1 Certification

Fiber Test Best Practices: Tier 1 Certification
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(189.22 KB)

Fiber Test Best Practices: Inspect and Clean

Fiber Test Best Practices: Inspection and Cleaning
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(187.09 KB)

System Integrator Guide

System Integrators Guide to Driving Business Growth through LAN Installation and Validation Best Practices
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(464.81 KB)

Proven techniques and best practices for managing infrastructure change

Describes a methodology for managing network changes that meet the need for speed of implementation without sacrificing accuracy.
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Efficiency and Cost Control in Managing Network and Application Management white paper

Efficiency and Cost Control in Managing Network and Application Management white paper
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(3.01 MB)

Monitor the core and troubleshoot the access layer with integrated network analysis solutions

Learn how to plan for new application deployment, manage against internal security threats, diagnose network problems, prove it’s not the network, and analyze application problems.
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(590.55 KB)

Managing Network Bandwidth to Maximize Performance - white paper

This white paper describes how to leverage best practices to monitor, baseline, and manage the network bandwidth and performance.
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(1.11 MB)

Gain flexibility Combination taps - Whitepaper

Gain flexibility to data access options with Combination taps - Whitepaper
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(743.96 KB)

Network Monitoring and Analysis Techniques Using Taps and SPAN Switches

Network Monitoring and Analysis Techniques Using Taps and SPAN Switches
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(902.13 KB)

Deploying Network TAPS For Improved Security White Paper

Learn how a combination of network security probes and network TAPs can improve visibility and redundancy, while reducing solution complexity and cost.
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(416.61 KB)

Guide to Deploying 802.11n Wireless LANs

This comprehensive guide covers the fundamentals of 802.11n – what you need to know when planning or preparing for an 802.11n deployment or migration.
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(3.75 MB)

Troubleshooting Switched Environments White Paper

A basic problem in troubleshooting switches is an inability to see inside. This white paper describes five fundamental approaches to gain visibility into a switch.
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(506.26 KB)

Ten top Network Tech Problems White Paper

Ten top Network Tech Problems White Paper
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(183.65 KB)

Validate LAN installations for optimal service delivery White Paper

This paper discusses what LAN validation is, who benefits and why it should be part of a network installer's and network owner's best practices.
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(436.58 KB)

Locating rogue 802.11n and legacy wireless access points

Learn two methods to identify and locate rogue wireless access points.
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(743.59 KB)

Copper Cabling Troubleshooting Handbook

Copper Cabling Troubleshooting Handbook
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(573.55 KB)

Voltage Detection Essentials White Paper

Voltage detection essentials for keeping outside plant technicians safe: This white paper gives you tips for selecting and using the right tool on the job.
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(645.61 KB)

Testing Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Enabled Systems Whitepaper

Understand the potential impacts on the certification and testing process.
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(226.16 KB)

Filtered Network Analysis with Taps - Whitepaper

Filtered Data Access for Network Test, Measurement and Security - Whitepaper
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(476.79 KB)

Deploying new technologies and applications safely and efficiently - white paper

This white paper highlights several scenarios and shows how to implement new technologies and applications with minimal disruption and continue to deliver a high level of service.
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(494.44 KB)

The Permanent Link in Field Certification Reasons, Advantages, Testing Challenges White Paper

This paper revisits the Permanent Link test model, highlights its benefits, and examines its impact on the operations and performance requirements of field test equipment.
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(429.61 KB)

Certifying 10 Gig SV White Paper

Certifying 10 Gig SV White Paper
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(695.76 KB)

Fundamentals of Power Over Ethernet (PoE) White Paper

Learn about the two dominant PoE standards, IEEE 802.3af and Cisco ILP plus advantages of PoE and the challenges associated with its implementation.
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(455.16 KB)

Testing Proves Most Cords Fail TIA Requirements Buyers are not getting what they paid for White Paper

Learn the differences between different patch cords and why they matter on 100Base-T networks or higher speed protocols.
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Marketplace Challenges and Opportunities for Incumbent Telecom Carriers White Paper

Read how the use of predictive testing and monitoring techniques assures traditional carriers of more cost effective maintenance of their local loops.
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(86.61 KB)

Troubleshooting Wireless LANs to improve Wi-Fi uptime and security White Paper

Read about how to improve security and performance by identifying rogue APs and ad-hoc networks and conducting network audits. Also included is a review of the tools and their effectiveness at troubleshooting wireless LANs.
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