Datacom Cabling (7 topics)Testing 10 Gigabit/sec Ethernet Over Copper and Fiber Cabling
Installing and maintaining a reliable physical cable plant is essential to the well being of today's mission-critical LANs, especially as they migrate to higher speeds. Learn about the draft standards for 10 Gigabit/sec Ethernet Over Twisted Pair Cabling to ensure your cabling installation will meet the transmission demand for 10GBASE-T.
Ensuring the Health of Tomorrow’s Fiber LANs
The health of your network depends on the quality of your network infrastructure — maintaining a reliable fiber plant is essential in protecting your business-critical applications. As a network administrator, it is important to understand how to get the best performance from your cabling investment and how to solve problems quickly when they occur.
Cabling Resources for Consultants and Designers
Technical information and tools to help Consultants and Designers specify cabling system test requirements and provide performance documentation.
Industrial Ethernet
Ethernet adoption is expanding rapidly across a wide range of industrial environments. As the migration to Ethernet occurs, one thing remains critical – network uptime. This solution center provides valuable information about industrial networking and the solutions to quickly troubleshoot issues that could arise - and keep them from occurring again.
Cable Testing Basics
See everything you need to know as a cabling professional including standards overviews, cabling glossary of terms, test parameter definitions and test specifications for copper and fiber.
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IT Networking (9 topics)LAN System Integrators and VARs
Resources to help LAN System Integrators and VARs grow their business. Learn about best practices for LAN design, installation, and validation and using tools designed to assist with each phase.
Improving Network Security
Network security is not a single event or task, it’s a critical ongoing practice which requires continuous monitoring of the network for security breaches and threats.
Basic Ethernet Troubleshooting
Giving network technicians proper training, the right tools, and a solid methodology for using them makes network troubleshooting faster, saving technician time and getting network users back to productivity faster.
Solving Network Issues with Portable Network Analyzers
Today’s networks are typically very stable. The problem is they aren’t static. Management and users are constantly demanding new technologies, new services, and better performance, which inevitably require changing infrastructure, deploying new applications, and dealing with security. That means you need to be able to clearly see all aspects of your network to accurately assess the impact of these changes.
Solving Performance Problems Faster
An important element of having an effective management strategy in place is being able to quickly resolve problems down to problem domain to find root cause. In order to accomplish this task successfully, organizations require a solution that is not stifled with only one core troubleshooting methodology since different problems will require different ways of getting at root cause.
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Telecomunications Providers (2 topics)Managing a More Productive Telecom Workforce
Tracking technician productivity, reducing repeat rates and avoiding double dispatches are all part of a good workforce management plan, which enabled by the right technology, helps minimize expenses while offering new services over an increasingly complex network.
Carrier Issues in Transitioning to Next Generation Services
With the right approach and the appropriate process improvements, telecommunications carriers can rapidly introduce new technologies, such as ADSL2+ and VDSL, that will help the overcome today’s competitive and financial challenges in the telecom industry.
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