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Child Safety,
Go Back to School with CableOrganizer®
By CableOrganizer®Backpacks coming out of hibernation and the smell of freshly sharpened pencils in the air can only mean one thing: it’s back-to-school time. While it’s always a shame to see...
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Cable Management
Ordering Continuous Lengths or Segments of Wire Loom, Braided Sleeving, and Heat Shrink
By CableOrganizer®When ordering products like wire loom, braided sleeving and heat shrink tubing, the product’s length is specified per line item. Some general information is below about how to order each...
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Electrical Safety,
Server Racks,
Specs & Standards
NEMA Ratings: What They Mean, and Why They Matter
You may have some new equipment or wiring to install outdoors or in an industrial facility. Experts tell you that not just any enclosure will do — it must be...
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Server Racks
Cable Management for Server Racks
Every installer wants to save time and make the installation of electronics systems as easy as possible. Having a system that is simple and quick to service and upgrade, benefits...
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Fiber Optics
Protect Your Fiber Optic Network with Proper Cable Management
Fiber optic networks can provide you with high bandwidth, reliable data transmission and long-term economy. In order to for them to perform to their full potential, they need to be...
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Fiber Optics
Setting up Fiber Optics Technology
It is widely assumed fiber optics is a newer phenomenon that has revolutionized the communication infrastructure. However, experiments began in the late 1800s when researchers worked on transmitting light through...
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Fiber Optics
Maintaining Cables with Fiber Optic Cleaners
Fiber optic cables have the role of transmitting data at high speeds over long distances. Made of fine glass or plastic fibers, this type of cabling is vulnerable to particles,...
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Fiber Optics
Fast, Efficient Terminations and Connections with Leviton® Fiber Optics
Over the past century, Leviton® electrical components have become a household name. But did you know they produce an impressive line of fiber optic products as well? From consumables and...
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Fiber Optics
Fiber Optic Testing
When you’re installing a fiber optic network, one of the most important steps in the operation is testing the newly installed and terminated optical fiber cables, to be sure they’re...
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Fiber Optics
Fiber Optics Run Down: Features, Benefits, Safety
Your Network Needs More Fiber in its Diet. Are you trying to decide between fiber optic and copper cabling for your computer networking installation? Some might consider that decision a...
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Security & Surveillance
8 Ways to Protect Your Home with Security Cameras
Security cameras have become a common sight in public places like shopping malls, banks, schools, hospitals, airports, casinos and road intersections. And they’re just as visible in residential settings. Like...
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Product Standards & Material Safety,
Specs & Standards
What Is RoHS?
The acronym RoHS (often pronounced “ro-hoss”) pops up frequently in connection with the electrical and electronics industries. Do you know the meaning behind it? It stands for the Restriction of...
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Material,
Product Standards & Material Safety
Materials Spotlight: The Properties of Nylon 12
Even though it isn’t as widely used as Nylon 6-6, the semi-crystalline polyamide known as Nylon 12, Polyamide 12 and PA 12, has physical properties that make it an exceptional...
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Security & Surveillance
What is CCTV and How is it Used?
Closed circuit TV system, otherwise known as CCTV, is a type of video monitoring system that has been around since the 1940s. It was first used by Siemens AG to...
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Material,
Product Standards & Material Safety
The Facts on Polypropylene
WHAT IS POLYPROPYLENE? Polypropylene is an incredibly versatile thermoplastic polymer. Though many chemists began experimenting with it dating to the early 1870s, after chemists J. Paul Hogan and Robert L....
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Fiber Optics
Fiber Optic Cable Jackets and What They Identify
Fiber optic cable jacket colors can make it fast and simple to recognize exactly which type of cable you are dealing with. For example, the color yellow clearly identifies a...
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Home Décor
5 Things That Home Design Shows Don't Always Tell You
It's no mystery why we're obsessed with home design and renovations — just look at the shows we watch. If our TVs aren't set to one home design channel, then...
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