888-568-1230

Fast Lead Times | Fast Shipping

LANshack January 8th, 2013 Newsletter
LANshack Celebrates its 15 Year Anniversary
Enter for a chance to win a QuickTreX Network Administrator Tool Kit
 
LANshack is celebrating its 15th year anniversary - and during the month of January, we want your feedback! If LANshack has provided you great service and has helped your organization over the past 15 years let us know. All participants will be entered to win a QuickTreX Network Administrator Tool Kit - a $590 value!

to enter click here >>

 
How-To Videos
Tech Tips by Tony
Fiber Optic Tutorial Chapter 1: How to use a VFL to trace, verify, and test continuity of fiber
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.  

 

 

LANshack Tech Tip Channel - click here to see all of LANshack's tech tip videos  

 
Industry News
Ask the Expert
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?

 
New Items
Sticklers® Military Ready Fiber Optic Cleaning Kit
  This kit puts the time-saving Sticklers® cleaners in a "go anywhere, clean anything" package, giving each tech all the tools they need to get the job done right. Check it out >>

Sticklers™ CleanWipes™ 400 Fiber Optic Cleaning Tool
Any amount of dirt and debris on the micro level of fiber optic connectors can interfere with the signal rendering it slow or inoperable.  Learn More >>


Featured Links

LANshack.com | 888-568-1230 | [email protected] | http://www.lanshack.com
1110 Beach Ave
Beachwood, NJ 08722
Show More

Superior Customer Service // Free Technical Support // Fast Lead Times

TUTORIALS

Fiber Optic Tutorials

fiber optic cabling tutorials
Ethernet Cabling Tutorials

ethernet cablines tutorials
HDMI Tutorials

hdmi tutorials

videos

LANShack Pre-Terminated Fiber Optic Assemblies tom damiano discussing pre-terminated fiber optic assemblies
Custom MTP Cable Assemblies and Cassettes tom damiano discussing mtp cable assemblies
How to Fusion Splice Fiber Optic Cable video tutorial how to fusion splice two fiber optic cables together