The Netcoms Show preview
Thursday 14th October 2010
10:30am An Introduction to Cable Fire-Stopping Duncan Alabaster of Pfc Corofil
The use of fire compartments is critical to business survival following fire. This presentation describes, very dramatically, the value of fire-stopping to maintain that integrity in relation to the telecommunications cabling industry. Not only is it important for cabling installers to determine, in advance, which building structures act as fire compartments – it is also important to determine their specification and to select and install a fire- stopping solution that meets this specification.
11:15am Energy Efficiency Enablement Rob Cardigan of Nexans
New standards in the EN 50600 series are being developed to support the installation of infrastructures to measure, monitor and direct the energy consumption of information technology equipment, power distribution and environmental control systems in data centres. Rob Cardigan leads the UK activity to support the development of these standards and will report on the progress, and scheduling, of the work.
12:20pm Convergence – Its Impact on Building Design and Construction Mani Manivannan of Arup Communications
The use of parallel infrastructures using common structured cabling components to provide a wide range of building services increases the opportunities for component suppliers and installers. However, the scheduling of such works involves a new range of design and project management personnel unused to the world of telecommunications. This presentation reviews the potential problems and outlines some of the solutions necessary to smooth the path.
1:30pm Alien Crosstalk for the Inexperienced User Mark Barmettler of Megger
Certification of 10GBASE-T links for alien crosstalk performance can be a challenging task. 100 per cent testing is not plausible from a ‘time-to-test’ perspective for either the certification of Category 6A/Class EA cabling or the re-certification of Category 6/Class E cabling designated to support 10GBASE-T. An effective quality plan is critical to the selection of links for alien crosstalk testing and to select the disturbing be used during that testing. This seminar outlines the key aspects of such a quality plan.
2:15pm Testing Installed Optical Fibre Cabling David Robinson, Arden Photronics (FIA Project RGT)
For the last eight years, the FIA has been working to define a series of test tools and processes to enable repeatable and comparable insertion loss testing – particularly of the low losses demanded by high bit rate networks over multimode optical fibre. BS ISO/IEC 14763-3 and BS EN 61280-4-1 provide a large part of the solution but the FIA has a responsibility to ensure that the required tools are available to installers in the ‘real world’ – i.e. at a cost that will gain acceptance. This presentation outlines the results of this work.
3:00pm
OM3, OM4, OS1 and OS2: Specification and Added Value
This seminar provides a detailed analysis of the meaning of cable optical fibre Categories. For the multimode variants OM3 and OM4, the presentation explains the changes to the way in which bandwidth is now measured and specified. For the singlemode products, the inclusion of ‘less bend sensitive’ optical fibres deserves some attention – what does it do and is it relevant?
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