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INDEX

Hot Topics   

• Hype Performance Cabling
• Category 6 - The New Standard
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Structured Cabling

• Structured Cabling Explained
• Structured Cabling Costs
• The Future of Structured Cabling
• The Future of Fibre Optic Cabling

Structured Cabling Systems

• ARCNET
• ETHERNET
• IBM 3270
• IBM AS400
• ICL MicroLAN
• RS 232
• Token Ring
• Wang

Standards

• Standards Organisations
• Navigating the Standards Maze
• List of Standards
• ISO Standards
• ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-A-The Standard
• European Cabling Standards- EN50173, EN50174, etc.
• Standards - overview EN 50173
  • Contents EN 50173
  • Introduction EN 50173
  • Scope EN 50173
  • EN 50173/A1:2000
• Standards - overview EN 50174
  • Contents EN 50174-1
  • Introduction EN50174
  • Schematic EN 50174-1
  • Scope EN 50174-1
  • Contents EN 50174-2
  • Schematic EN 50174-2
  • Scope EN 50174-2
  • Contents prEN 50174-3
  • Schematic prEN50174-3
  • Scope prEN50174-3
• Standards - overview EN 50310
  • Contents EN 50310 
  • Introduction EN 50310
  • Scope EN 50310
• Standards - overview EN 50098
  • Contents of EN 50098-1
  • Introduction EN 50098-1
  • Scope EN 50098-1
  • Contents of EN 50098-2
  • Introduction EN 50098-2
  • Scope EN 50098-2

Installation Tips

• Jointing Cat 5
• Labeling
• Plan 1A
• Pulling Cables
• Wire Baskets
• Active Component Drawings
• Cabinet Layout Drawings
• Communication Rooms
• Estimating Datacomms
• Alien Crosstalk
• Conduit Capacities
• Trunking Capacities
• Multi  Capacities
• Tray Capacities
• Guidelines
• Cable Pathway Design
• Colour Codes

Tutorials

• ATM
• Basic Cable Testing
• Ethernet Basics
• Gigabit over Copper
• Test parameters for twisted pair cabling
  • Propagation Delay - NVP
  • Delay Skew
  • Attenuation
• ISDN
• ISDN Explained
• A Look At Signal Encoding
• MHz Vs MBits
• Introduction to Fibre Optics
  

• Introduction
• Basic Concepts
• Encoding and Modulating
• Signals
• The OSI Model
• Transmission Media
• Transmission of Digital Data Interfaces and Modems
• Data Link Control
• Data Link Protocols
• Error Detection and Correction
• Frame Relay
• ISDN
• Local Area Networks
• Metropolitan Area Networks
• Multiplexing
• Networking
• OSI upper levels
• SDH
• Switching
• TCP
• Transport
• X25
• Serial Communications

IPCCTV & Integrated Security

• Gardiner IP Surveillance Access Control Transmission Monitoring Integration.

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