Datacom Cabling (6 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.
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)Wireless Lifecycle Management
Keeping control of a wireless network, that by design is constantly changing, requires an overall lifecycle management approach focused on each phase of the wireless lifecycle: pre-deployment and expansion planning; installation and verification; troubleshooting; and management and optimization.
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.
Troubleshooting Switches and VLANs
Monitoring and trending switched networks will take you from a troubleshooting mode to a trouble prevention mode so you aren’t constantly investigating complaints from users that the network is slow.
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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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