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Welcome to the Connectix Cabling Systems library.
Here you will find all of the articles and white papers that have been produced for the Consultant Programme, along with case studies, technical documents and much more.
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Articles
Understanding Product Testing and Certification
Article:25-06-2012: 277KB
Cabling systems have to be tested by the manufacturer to demonstrate that the...
The Myth of Zero Bit Error Rate Transmission
Article:23-04-2008: 322KB
A powerful way of measuring the performance of a digital communications channel ...
What is Fibre Channel?
Article:19-12-2008: 1225KB
Fibre Channel is a high speed, duplex, serial link working from one Gbps and bey...
Category 6 Cabling for Building Management Systems
Article:06-11-2008: 257KB
Modern buildings contain Building Management Systems (BMS) to control, measure a...
How to Specify Pre-terminated MTP Optical Cabling
Article:19-01-2009: 2530KB
The two principal advantages of pre-terminated cabling are reduced time on site ...
Specifying 10 Gigabit Ethernet : Part 1
Article:12-12-2008: 892KB
Update of article 2, orginally published in 2006. Moving to ten gigabit Ether...
Pre-terminated Cabling Systems
Article:28-11-2008: 785KB
Originally published in 2006, here is the December 2008 update to our first arti...
IT Infrastructure in the Medical and Healthcare environment
Article:10-11-2008: 525KB
Information technology is now a vital component of healthcare provision both in ...
Lowering Energy Consumption - Is it a Legal Requirement?
Article:10-11-2008: 391KB
Lowering energy consumption in your computer room is, not only a good idea, but ...
Why Screened Cable is a Good Idea in the Industrial Environment
Article:10-11-2008: 218KB
An unscreened balanced twisted pair data cable, when correctly installed, will k...
Cabling for High Speed LANs in Data Centres
Article:06-06-2008: 452KB
Ethernet is by far the market leader in the Local Area Network business. It has...
40 and 100 Gb/s Update
Article:29-08-2008: 496KB
Now that ten gigabit over copper has been put to bed the standards writers have ...
Preterminated cabling : Avoiding problems
Article:29-08-2008: 623KB
Preterminated cabling has been with us for nearly fifteen years and its benefits...
Industrial Ethernet Cabling
Article:29-05-2006: 84KB
Industrial Ethernet is the name given to the use of Ethernet protocol to a rang...
Minimising Fire Risk
Article:29-05-2006: 140KB
No fire-risk minimisation plan should be considered in isolation from the other...
Screened Cable & Data Cable Segregation
Article:20-12-2007: 241KB
Can an armoured power cable be considered a screened cable and how does this rel...
Cable Mitigation Techniques
Article:28-02-2008: 385KB
Mitigation techniques are extra rules applied to the installation of unscreened ...
Specifying Optical Fibre
Article:04-10-2006: 54KB
To get the most cost effective solution for a communications project, the correc...
Improving Cooling & Airflow
Article:15-03-2007: 314KB
The vast majority of computer rooms are cooled by air conditioning systems that ...
The Telecoms Spaces
Article:20-06-2007: 655KB
Getting the spaces right is a key element of any successful network and infrastr...
Why choose Cat5E, Cat6 or Cat6A?
Article:20-12-2007: 189KB
The original Category 5 standard was suitable for LAN transmission standards up ...
Cabling for Wireless LANs
Article:05-11-2007: 209KB
Some people think that LAN connection within an office is a point of competition...
A review of TSB 155
Article:17-07-2007: 293KB
TSB 155 and 10GBASE-T The Cat6A story really started last year (2006) when the...
Welcome to the Machine
Article:20-07-2007: 43KB
"Data centres are probably the nearest thing large enterprises have to the newly...
Ten Gigabit Ethernet - Questions & Answers
Article:22-05-2007: 737KB
Ten gigabit Ethernet is a series of standards in the Ethernet family of Local Ar...
The advantages of the 6-connector channel
Article:01-05-2007: 681KB
The advantage of sticking to standardised rules such as ISO11801 (that define t...
Spec Guide for Cable Marking and Admin
Article:21-02-2007: 362KB
Every successful cable installation project needs accurate and comprehensive r...
Cable Management
Article:11-01-2007: 534KB
No standard exists that details exactly what kind of pathway is required for dif...
Effective Earthing of Screened Cables
Article:07-11-2006: 791KB
All metallic containment items, other extraneous metalwork and the screens of te...
Connectors - Making the Right Choice
Article:07-12-2006: 424KB
A cabling system depends upon the connectors at the end of the cable to make a s...
Voice over Internet Protocol
Article:20-09-2006: 157KB
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is a way to make phone calls using the inte...
Specifying 10 Gigabit Ethernet : Part 2
Article:07-09-2006: 167KB
With the approval by the IEEE of the 10GBASE-T standard in June of 2006, there i...
The Ideal Server Cabinet
Article:17-07-2006: 120KB
Communications equipment has been located in racks, usually 19-inch based, for...
Screened Cable; Time to Take Another Look?
Article:17-07-2006: 170KB
Communications cable has always come in unscreened and screened versions, or s...
