Tech Tips by Tony
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Fiber Optic Tutorial Chapter 1: How to use a VFL to trace, verify, and test continuity of fiber |
11 Part Video Tutorial on How to Install Fiber
This tutorial from LANshack.com takes the viewer through a real world fiber optic cable installation from concept to completion, with
all the chapters available in an automatic playlist.
It involves expanding an existing fiber run from a town hall building to the town's high school, in order to enable broadcast of live video from the school auditorium to the township's public TV channel. In the eleven chapters of the series, Tony Casazza, President of LANshack.com, walks the viewer through the process of each phase of the installation.
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QUESTION:
Grounding Shielded Cabling Systems
I am a Professional Network Cabling Installer and we install a lot of Category 6 (and 6 A) A Shielded cabling systems for our customers. Our company is very specific in how we need to ground each system that we install. They say that we must install only one permanent source of Ground on the cable's shielding and that this ground be at the main patch panel and main frame. We are required to run a # 6 AWG copper conductor from the patch panel and rack frame to "building steel". I wonder why this is necessary since each cable picks up a ground source at two places, one being at the main switch and the other at the workstation where it is picked up by the computer's electrical plug (from the electrical outlet). So if the cable is already grounded in 2 places, why do we need to ground it a third time?
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