Category: Data Cabling
The Essential Guide to Data Cabling: Everything you need to know
Data cabling is the backbone of any modern communication infrastructure. This comprehensive guide details all you need to know about data cabling.
Network Cabling Upgrades in Historic or Old Buildings – What You Need to Know
Upgrading network cabling in a centuries-old or heritage-listed building is no minor undertaking. We explore the practicalities, regulations, and best practices of successfully integrating modern cabling systems within the delicate framework of a historic or older office environment.
Data Cabling for Multi-Tenant Office Buildings: Challenges & Solutions
Cabling for multi-tenant buildings is no place for guesswork. A single oversight—such as underestimating bandwidth requirements, can lead to expensive rework and strain the relationships between tenants and property management.
The Evolution of Wi-Fi Standards: A Journey of Wireless Networking
Wi-Fi is a cornerstone of modern life. We’ve grown so accustomed to it that we often take it for granted. Remarkably, with over 5 billion people globally connected to the internet today, wireless internet is relatively young. Let’s explore a snapshot of the history of Wi-Fi,
Why Data Centre Cabling Optimisation Matters
Network administration is routinely hampered by bad cable management, which not only increases maintenance costs and decreases the efficiency of thermal and airflow management but also increases the rate of human error – which accounts for 24% of the unplanned data centre outages.
What is a Fibre Optic Cable? Everything you Need to Know.
Over the last 20 years, the telecommunications industry has rapidly evolved and fibre lines are quickly taking over. This is because fibre optic cables are greater for building a network that requires high speeds, heavy bandwidth connections and long distances.
Cat5e vs Cat6 vs Cat6A vs Cat7 vs Cat8: Which Cable Does Your Office Actually Need?
Going over an installation checklist for a new network, or a bill of materials for a network older than a few months or so feels a bit like walking into the office of a Vogon clerk. You’re expected to navigate a checklist with terms like Cat5, Cat6, Cat6e, Cat6a, Cat7, and Cat8 – none of which are cats, sadly.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to WiFi Black Spots
WiFi black spots are part of everyday reality in many homes and offices in London. Every office has that dreadful meeting room where you just can’t pick up the WiFi signal. Eventually, someone installs an extra WiFi access point and the problem sort of goes away
Smart Buildings and You: Integrating Smart Building Systems and Company Networks
Smart buildings offer a chance to make business activities more cost-efficient and more environmentally friendly. However, they require integration in order to be leveraged efficiently. Read more …
What are the different types of CCTV camera?
Reliable and comprehensive surveillance is part of many London companies’ security strategy. Surveillance requirements are very diverse, though. CCTV camera manufacturers have risen up to the challenge and come up with a wealth of options in terms of capabilities, performance and price.
Passive Optical Network: What is PON?
A Passive Optical Network (PON) is a telecommunications system or a network that transmits data over fibre optic lines. The greatest asset of PON technology is its simplicity. To understand why that is the case read our quick blog post.
How to Boost Efficiency and Performance through Proper Office Cabling
An efficient, high-performance, low-maintenance network is a driving factor of a business’s efficiency, and the data backbone, the data cabling is the first layer of its foundation.