Data, Voice, and Video Cable Installation

This practical book is essential for installers or contractors responsible for cabling LANs, security systems, telephones, or CATV. Separate sections on fiber optics and copper wiring make understanding each much easier and highlight the differences in installation. Background material carefully explains why and how networks and systems work. This invaluable resource provides detailed instruction in down-to-earth language on how state-of-the-art installation should be done!

Jim Hayes is a founder and President of The Fiber Optic Association, the professional society for fiber optics. He is also a partner in VDV Works, a company that provides tech support to the voice-data-video industry in the form of marketing, training and technical content for websites, literature or newsletters and other technical assistance services. Originally educated as a physicist and astronomer at Vanderbilt University and The University of California at Santa Cruz, Jim has been involved with the electronics and test instrumentation industry since 1968. For the last 25 years, he has been involved with fiber optics and communications. Jim was founder and President of Fotec, Inc., the Boston-based fiber optic test equipment company which was sold to Fluke Networks in 2001. He started the Fiber U and Cable U training conferences. Jim is a frequent lecturer on communications, writes monthly columns for Electrical Contractor and TED (The Electrical Distributor) and is the author of two VDV books, The Fiber Optic Technicians Manual and Data, Voice and Video Cabling and numerous articles on fiber optics and cabling.