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LANshack June 2013 Newsletter


Regulatory compliance has safety implications in data centers

  The quality and installation of cables
in the data center can have a major impact on safety. Substandard cables can create electricity risks and lead to problems with excess smoke or melting during fires. Furthermore, poor installation practices can lead to cables disrupting evacuation or rescue processes. Cabling architectures are a vital component of data center safety efforts....  
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Comments on this article : We are fortunate nowadays that in most US States, installers of low-voltage systems are required to be licensed. That gives end users a certain amount of confidence that the installers are knowledgeable and accountable for NEC regulations, most of which deal with safety. Years ago, unknowing and unlicensed telephone and cabling installers would typically use riser cable in plenum ceilings. They would lay the cables they ran directly on the dropped tile ceiling. Read More>>

 

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Tech Tip How to: Modifying Snagless Boots on Cat 5 and Cat 6 RJ-45 Connectors
Tech Tip How to: Modifying Snagless Boots on Cat 5 and Cat 6 RJ-45 Connectors

Booted Cat 6 Cables are very durable because the boot prevents damage to the cable at the connector. But as good as boots are, they also present a great challenge of making it extremely hard to unplug the cable. Jennifer from LANshack.com demonstrates an easy way around this dilemma.

 

 

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Industry News
 

Labeling only the beginning of cabling administration 


Labels are at the center of just about any network management effort. Companies do not want to end up in a situation where cablesare not labeled properly and find themselves having to deal with the headaches of untangling wires and scouring the data center to figure out what plugs go where. At the same time, advanced network and data center architectures are creating demand for sophisticated solutions. As a result, labeling is often only the first step to
effective infrastructure management organizations.
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Ask the Expert
QUESTION:

We have Cat 6 UTP cable run throughout our offices. Each floor has two Telecommunication Closets (East and West). On one floor, our east closet has all of its computers that are running slow on the network. We have ruled out just about everything. Can you offer any suggestions?

 

ANSWER:  

 

From a cabling standpoint, you can try the following:

 

1)If the backbone is Fiber, clean the connectors and their cavities inside of the switch or media converter. Make sure that the fiber run is not squeezed at any tie point.

2)If the backbone is Cat 6, you can try re-terminating it. Then, examine the cable to be sure that it is not close to any sources of EMF.

3)Check the bundle of Cat 6 cables and try to make it as loose as possible. Remove any cable ties which are inside of the ceiling. In other words, keep the cables separated from each other as much as possible.

 

 
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