Cable Infrastructure and Testing - Part I

With the explosive growth of Local Area Networks over the past decade, cabling standards for critical LAN cabling backbones have also undergone dramatic changes with regard to speed, performance and reliability. Installing and maintaining a reliable physical cable plant is essential to the well being of today’s mission-critical LANs.

This involves two main areas, most commonly, field testing is done for certification of new cable plants, to ensure they are capable of meeting cable and application standards. Also, field testing is done in the event of adds, moves, or changes, or in the case of troubleshooting to isolate a point of failure.