Green Cabling

Date: May 14, 2008
Overview:
The United States Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) guidelines have sent waves through all construction trades, including communications-cabling design and installation. The frantic level of discussion and activity leaves many in the cabling industry with the impression that learning about LEED and Green Buildings is equivalent to drinking ...

 

10-Gigabit Cost Comparisons

Originally Broadcast: March 26, 2008
Overview:
Individuals who attend the seminar in its entirety will be eligible to receive one Continuing Education Credit toward BICSI's RCDD and Certified Installer designations.

This web-delivered seminar will deliver, in roundtable format, cost-comparison information to go along with performance-comparison information, concerning the media and electronics options for 10-Gigabit ...

 

Scalability in the Data Center Including Media/Electronics Options

Originally Broadcast: March 10, 2008
Overview:
Synopsis of 10G Infrastructure
Optical connectivity contributes to the overall efficiency of the data center. Optical cable with OM3 fiber provides bandwidth capabilities that support legacy and future data rate applications such as 16G to 100G and beyond without having to re-cable. In addition, optical fiber cable optimizes pathway and space utilization to maintain proper ...

 

TIA Standards Update

Originally Broadcast: January 30, 2008
Overview:
Individuals who attend the seminar in its entirety will be eligible to receive one Continuing Education Credit toward BICSI's RCDD and Certified Installer designations.

Several subcommittees within the Telecommunications Industry Association's TR-42 Engineering Committee are working on specifications that will greatly impact professionals in the cabling industry. ...

 

VoIP and Cabling

Originally Broadcast: December 13, 2007
Overview:
With many of the quality and performance concerns of Voice over IP put to rest, enterprises are deploying it regularly, and many others are closely examining VoIP as a potential business tool. This webcast produced by Cabling Installation & Maintenance will consider VoIP from a physical-layer perspective, discussing the technologies and practices necessary to support the increasingly ...

 

Cabling Systems and Security Applications

Originally Broadcast: November 13, 2007
Overview:
The long-held promises of communications-systems convergence is coming to fruition for many end-user organizations in the form of physical security. The structured cabling systems that have supported voice and data applications are now being relied upon to support Internet Protocol-based security applications, including video-surveillance systems. The ability to leverage the familiar ...

 

Advanced Fiber-optic Technologies

Originally Broadcast: October 17, 2007
Overview:
While copper-based cabling systems reach new engineering heights to accommodate today's fastest available data rates, fiber-optic systems can boast of having supported these applications for years. The relative stability of fiber gives many users the impression that it is relatively dormant as a medium, with little technological development taking place. And still, the perception exists ...

 

Grounding, Bonding, and Communications Systems

Originally Broadcast: September 27, 2007
Overview:
In the electrical as well as the communications arenas, the requirement to properly bond/ground systems traditionally creates significant confusion. In the communications industry in particular, the recent rise in popularity of shielded cabling systems has brought this troublesome issue to the forefront. This web seminar, produced by Cabling Installation & Maintenance, looks at the ...

 

Heat Generation and Cooling Efforts in the Data Center

Originally Broadcast: August 22, 2007
Overview:
For all the performance and management issues that data center managers deal with, keeping the air temperature at an acceptable level tops everyone's list. The high density of computing electronics generates significant amounts of heat. Air-conditioning systems deployed to combat that heat consume massive amounts of electricity - which is hard to come by for many. This Web-delivered ...

 

Utilizing Fiber Optics with Data Center Copper Electronics

Originally Broadcast: August 1, 2007
Overview:
Are your cable trays about to collapse from copper cable overload?
Learn how you can save more space in your data center's cable trays by moving from copper cabling to fiber-optic cabling while utilizing your current copper equipment infrastructure. This webcast will show you how you can reduce the space you need for cabling by 93% and lower your cooling costs!.

 

Data Center Management and Administration

Originally Broadcast: July 11, 2007
Overview:
Many legacy data centers can be held up as cases in point of how not to manage and administer structured cabling. Whether the environment is a data center's LAN or its SAN, improper administration can have adverse effects ranging from the inability to trace a circuit, to impeding airflow, to making moves/adds/changes an unnecessarily long process. This webcast, produced by Cabling ...

 

Media for Today and Tomorrow's Data Centers

Originally Broadcast: June 13, 2007
Overview:
In the data center and other networking environments, structured cabling systems reside on the physical layer. Also known appropriately as "Layer 1," the network's physical layer provides the foundation upon which operations are built and carried out. This webcast, focused specifically on the deployment, use, and lifespan of structured cabling in the data center, considers the what/when/where ...