Abandoned Cable Liability Issue

Abandoned Cable Liability Issue

As tenants come and go in a commercial building, the cabling infrastructure sometimes leaves behind abandoned Cat5, Cat6 and coax cabling. All that needs to happen is for the new tenant to request a reconfigured layout that relocates the main wall closet. Or,...
What is “Alien Crosstalk”?

What is “Alien Crosstalk”?

No, it’s not ET calling home. “Alien Crosstalk” is defined as “unwanted signal coupling from one balanced twisted-pair component, channel, or permanent link to another”. Alien crosstalk is not generally affected by common noise from motors, transformers, or florescent...
Shielded or Unshielded Cat6 cable?

Shielded or Unshielded Cat6 cable?

With high bandwidth applications and network systems venturing into factory environments, the need for shielded Cat 6 cable has increased. In these new areas of installation, the environment where the network cable is run has large amounts of EMI (Electro-Magnetic...