What Installers Need to Know About Smart Home Hubs
The term ‘smart home’ has been around for a while now. Initially, it described a residence that was wired throughout and connected to the Internet. Now, the word ‘smart’ in smart home implies some kind of remote control, most likely …
Can copper cabling survive in a fiber world?
Two new technologies – G.fast and Cat8 – are improving copper cable options. This opens up new opportunities for telcos that have large amounts of legacy copper infrastructure, which currently cannot handle the speed and bandwidth that can be delivered …
4 Reasons to Consider Fiber to the Home
With falling prices and increased demand, fiber to the home (FTTH) is becoming the new standard for data delivery for homes and businesses. Install and repair teams need a variety of enclosures for these in-demand systems. According to Broadband Communities …
Tips for Tidy Wire Management
Many installers agree that structured wiring using the home run method is the best solution for networking homes and businesses. It involves using dedicated cable runs from a central panel to each distribution point. But, with so much cabling coming …
More structured wiring options: Daisy chain with WiFi networking
Part two of structured wiring options for home and business connectivity In our last post we described the ‘home run’ or ‘star wiring’ method of installing a structured wiring network in a home or business. Other common methods include WiFi …
What exactly is home run wiring?
Part one of structured wiring options for home and business connectivity Family homes, as well as businesses, are now requiring better network solutions for ever-increasing demands for data. As a start, a whole-house network can greatly benefit from an efficient …
Top 2015 Trends in the Telecommunications Industry: Part 2
We continue our look at what this year has in store for the telco industry as a whole, and for OSP and broadband install and repair teams across North America in particular. There’s a lot of bandwidth to cover, so …
Top 2015 Trends in the Telecommunications Industry
The 12 months ahead hold big things for the telecommunications industry, especially with fiber expected to reach many more homes and businesses. Here is the first of a two-part series on what this year has in store for OSP and …
How multi-play solutions connect smart homes to the Internet of Things
If you follow tech news even casually, you’ve no doubt noticed a steady uptick in the number of articles about ‘smart homes’ and ‘multi-play’. Well, maybe “uptick” isn’t the right word, since it has actually been more of an explosion. …
How the telco cabling industry reached Cat6 and beyond
Cat5, Cat5e, Cat6… what does it all mean? They’re categories of twisted-pair Ethernet cable, of course, but all twisted-pair Ethernet cables are not created equal. These Cats are all part of one big happy family of copper cabling standards defined …