This group offers knowledge and valuable content around the topic of IT cabling to all interested parties. We address everyone who deals with IT cabling, i.e. network administrators or electrical installers and those who also want to think a bit outside the box.

We would like to introduce you to our new NetXpert XG2 series of measuring devices. The NetXpert XG2 series is the successor series of the well-known and proven NetXpert XG. Technical details of the XG2 series can be found here.

Our colleague Deane Horn, director of product management at Softing Inc, discusses "How Cable Testing can be Like Cord Cutting" with Patrick McLaughlin, editor-in-chief at Cabling Installation & Maintenance.

Measurements with a certifier after the cabling has been installed are a proven means of ensuring that the cabling actually meets the performance requirements for a particular application. Test reports from these measurements serve as documentation of the quality of the installed cabling to the installer or systems engineer installing that cabling, to the inspectors, users and owners of that cabling. 

Softing receives the approval from Bel Stewart for certification testing of all copper LAN cabling products including CAT 8.2 with Ethernet speeds up to 40GB/s with WireXpert 4500.

There will be a great deal of change in the network cabling industry over

the coming months. Driven by new bandwidth hungry applications and the ...