Cabling Solutions for Your Office or Building

This hands-on Tips for Techs video takes you inside the Black Box Training Center to show you how to terminate and test cabling for a copper installation. The video begins with a step-by-step demonstration of terminating a patch cable up to the CAT6 specification, with special focus on how to cut and strip the cabling in a way that ensures good signaling integrity. Next, it covers how to validate and verify a backbone link between a patch panel and workstation. The video tutorial then demonstrates what kind of tester youll need if you must certify and document a copper link, then ends with a discussion on what youll need to simply verify the Ethernet performance of a cable run.

Choose a CAT5e or CAT6 channel solution that'll not only give you reliable end-to-end performance but also enough headroom for application assurance. In this video tutorial, Black Box's Andy Schmeltzer offers an informative explanation on how to shop for such a solution.