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From the producers of Cabling Installation & Maintenance magazine (CI&M - cablinginstall.com), this podcast pulls together current industry news, interviews and features from around the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) cabling and connectivity sphere. For 28 years, CI&M has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Learn more at www.cablinginstall.com.
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Thursday Aug 04, 2022
Thursday Aug 04, 2022
In this episode of the Cabling Podcast, Cabling Installation & Maintenance senior editor Matt Vincent sits down with Francois Menard, founder of PulR Technologies. Francois is the inventor of the PulR, a versatile tool especially designed to solve the problem of pulling bend insensitive, self bend limiting 4.8 mm SC fiber-optic patch cords for small-conduit optical FTTx applications, and other pre-terminated patch cords. The tool will be featured at this year's BICSI Fall Conference (Sept. 25-29) in Las Vegas.
Friday Jul 08, 2022
Friday Jul 08, 2022
Cabling Installation & Maintenance recently sat down with CommScope Enterprise Solutions Architect Jason Bautista for a discussion of the finer points of Category 6A connectivity. Cat 6A has been a cabling standard since 2009, but what are the signature contemporary advancements in terms of compatible products and applications, and also the thinking surrounding the technology? Our discussion then touches on the different use cases for Cat 6A shielded vs. Cat 6A unshielded cabling, and what the upper limit of Cat 6A might be in terms of future bandwidth speed and distance. Also on the docket: Notes on the use of Cat 7 and above media in lieu of Cat 6A.
Friday May 13, 2022
Friday May 13, 2022
Cabling Installation & Maintenance (CI&M) editors Matt Vincent and Patrick McLaughlin chat about information and communications technology (ICT) segment prospects and news and notes for CI&M within the Spring 2022 timeframe.
Thursday Mar 24, 2022
Thursday Mar 24, 2022
CI&M sits down for some serious cabling tools talk with Jonard Tools’ Managing Sales Director of North American Operations, Wayne Bunce.
For Episode 3 of The Cabling Podcast, CI&M senior editor Matt Vincent sits down for some serious cabling tools talk with Jonard Tools’ Managing Sales Director of North American Operations, Wayne Bunce.
Wayne talks briefly about his background (00:44), starting with his time as a wire wrangler from an early age, before turning to the meat of the discussion (02:16): ICT job site challenges and the value proposition of certain Jonard Tools products that may prove helpful in the field installer's quest to alleviate such challenges. One of these tools has quite an interesting history which Wayne describes (04:22).
After much cabling tools discussion from an ICT-themed perspective, Matt and Wayne wrap up the podcast with another installment of “Cabling Triumph vs. Cabling Tragedy” (14:23), a discussion of cabling photos as seen on social media, and recently featured on CablingInstall.com.
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Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
For Episode 2 of The Cabling Podcast, CI&M senior editor Matt Vincent sits down with a longtime friend of the brand, Ethernet Alliance (EA) chair Peter Jones.
The discussion ranges from recent Ethernet Alliance activities (01:13), including the consortium's latest Power over Ethernet Certification program announcement (02:48), and an update on Single Pair Ethernet technology (03:40) with Peter also addressing Ethernet-APL systems technology developments (05:03).
Peter then reflects on the spread of Wi-Fi 6 technology (12:27), before providing a description of the background and development of the technology consortium's recently launched Voices of Ethernet oral archive project (15:43).
An update on the EA's rescheduled High Speed Networking (HSN) Plugfest is then provided (19:35).
The discussion wraps up with the podcast's kickoff round of "Cabling Triumph vs. Cabling Tragedy," a discussion (24:05) of select ICT structured cabling photos as featured in recent articles at CablingInstall.com.
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Friday Oct 29, 2021
In the first episode of The Cabling Podcast, Cabling Installation & Maintenance (CI&M) editors Matt Vincent and Patrick McLaughlin chat about the Fall (Sept./Oct) issue of the magazine (00:42), where the recipients of CI&M's 2021 Cabling Innovators Awards winners are honored (1:01).
As described by Patrick, the issue also covers advancements (2:55) in the areas of fiber-optic end-cleaning; cybersecurity and fiber; optical return loss; as well as Single Pair Ethernet cabling and connectivity.
Patrick also provides his reflections on the theme of 'Then and Now' (5:24) as applied to the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry, when viewed through his lens of a quarter century's experience in the space.
To wrap up (13:36), the editors give a preview of what's ahead in 2022 for readers of CI&M, including a new digital newsletter tightly focused on the Fiber Broadband segment.