...mount shelves, trays, cable managers, and power strips. • Shelves • Shelves are an easy solution for storing things that aren’t rackmountable. The shelves attach to the rails; servers or other equipment sits on the shelves. Make sure the shelf has...

...for copper patch cables • Light injector for copper patch cables • When you need to re-route or change a patch cable in crowded cabling cabinet, you can't be 100% sure you'll pick the right cable, unless both ends are clearly identified. Disc...

Cable construction and delay skew. • Cat5 extender and CAT5e or CAT6 cables (delay skew) • If you connect CAT5e or CAT6 cable to a CAT5 extender, the result is blurry images on your monitor. The effect is known as delay skew, but do you know w...

...including VCRs, camcorders, security cameras and video CD players. • As its name suggests, Composite video has the luminance (black and white), chrominance (colour) and sync pulses combined in one signal. When developed, Composite video was des...

...pair within a four-pair cable. TSB-67 requires that pair-to-pair NEXT be measured on all pair combinations in a cable. The worst pair-to-pair NEXT measure should not exceed the cable's specified limits. • PS-NEXT is a much more rigorous crosstalk me...

UTP Cable and Colour drift • UTP Cable and Colour drift • UTP cable is often used with video or KVM extenders to extend the reach of a video signal. It's popular for this application because it's lightweight, easy to handle, and inexpensive. B...

...of the most important cable measurements is Near-End Crosstalk (NEXT). It’s signal interference from one pair that adversely affects another pair on the same end. Crosstalk occurs between adjacent wire pairs (“pair-to-pair NEXT”). In addition, all...