OPENXTRA has now added the Brother range of professional label printers to our product portfolio. Brother label printers are PC compatible and produce professional cable labels which can include barcodes, logos and images if desired. You can find our range at Brother Printers And if you are a Test-Um Validator user , the Validator [...]
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Some of you may have spotted a few minor tweaks to the product categorisation recently. Both the cable tracker and telephone tester categories have been split off from the cable tester category.
Why? Neither the cable trackers nor telephone testers are cable testers in the sense most people reading this understand the term. So, why you [...]
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The Brother label printers work great with Test-Um Validator range. Both the Validator and Validator-NT include the Plan-Um software with which you can design your cable layouts. Now you can also print your cable labels at the same time, right inside the Plan-Um software.
The Plan-Um software supports the Brother PT18R, PT9500 and PT9600.
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A lot of the skills that an electrician applies every day are directly applicable to network cable installation. But there are differences, and that’s what I will be covering in this article.
Network Cable is Delicate
Network cabling is lighter gauge. Any kind of rough handling has the potential to damage the cable before you’ve even installed [...]
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If your queries to us are anything to go by, yes they do. We have noticed a trend with more and more electricians ringing up enquiring about cable testing for networks. So, electricians are being contracted to install network cabling.
There has been much talk over the last few years about convergence. Well, it is real. [...]
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When you buy from us we send a feedback form. You also receive a nice new OPENXTRA pen to fill the form in with too.
Many of you have been kind enough to fill in the forms. Thank-you! We take your feedback very seriously.
One customer asked us to include batteries with the NT700 and [...]
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If you want to know more about voice, data and video cabling we strongly recommend a visit to Uncle Ted’s Guide to VDV. Highly recommended!
For a great guide to fibre optics, you will find much to enjoy in Lennie Lightwave’s Guide to Fiber Optics.
Both of the above have been created by VDV Works a voice, [...]
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I thought I’d update everybody about the upcoming re-organisation of our product categories, specifically the cable testing products. Currently, the cable testers have 2 top level categories: Cable Testers and Network Testers.
As I’ve said already, we’re not happy with the current organisation.
I’ve been creating the new site and I’ve been designing the new organisation. I [...]
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Triple play is a marketing term coined to describe the provision of voice, video and data services over network connections. It is not a technical specification as such. It does not describe what the technology will be, how it will work or indeed why it is necessary. Though the why is the usual reason…cheaper & [...]
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With the implementation of V2.05 firmware release, Agilent’s WireScope now sports a user selectable feature which automatically starts the test upon detection of the remote, then automatically saves and increments the test results. This enhancement together with the already fast CAT6A/7 autotest of 12 seconds and CAT5e/6 of 7 seconds makes the WireScope pretty unbeatable [...]
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