Welcome to part two of the Align InfiniBand series. In this post, Rodney Willis, Align’s VP of sales and sourcing, completes a deep dive into the various types of cabling media and termination types ...

Structured cabling is a comprehensive system of cabling and associated hardware that provides a standardized ...

This article will explain the difference between traditional, controlled environments and harsh, industrial environments as well as the type of cabling and interconnectivity products to specify when ...

I finally took your advice and went completely wired on my home network using a bunch of Ethernet cables I had lying around. Some are Cat5, and others are Cat5e. Is there a difference? Is one faster ...

Figure 1. EIA/TIA 568 assigns CAT-X cable colors in a standardized way. (Illustrations used with permission of Robert Kerr, NetSpec). Click here to see an enlarged diagram. To get the most out of your ...

Slow Internet access, video conference freezes and other network issues are often believed to be due to slag in network speed. However, what is the cause of the slow network speed? Is it the router's ...

Although it’s easy to head to the electronics store to buy network cables, making do with cables of predetermined lengths can be a problem. More often than not, premade cables are either too short ...

We were recently perusing facebook and came across an article written and shared by our friends over at Blue Jeans Cable, entitled, “Is Your Cat 6 Cable a Dog?”. We were pretty shocked to discover ...