CABLE CERTIFICATION IS LESS EXPENSIVE THAN REPAIR

Network Cable Certification uses specifically designed test equipment to verify a copper or fiber network cable will perform at the level expected or needed.  It is simply not enough to plug a cable in and expect your network to perform at its highest level.  Of course the ISP; Frontier, Comcast, etc. will set the bandwidth and speed.  From here on out your connections, cable type, routing methods, environment, and more can cause enough issues for you to have little to nothing by the time the data makes it to your computer.  .

It starts at your home or business “Demarc”, which is short for Demarcation.  This is the location on your home where the signal from the ISP becomes yours.  This is a connection usually on the outside of your home.

If an enterprise is challenged to improve its annual uptime from 99.9% to 99.99%, it needs to reduce downtime by eight hours. Using the Gartner Group’s conservative estimate of downtime cost, this saves an enterprise hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.

There are many causes of downtime. A Gartner/Dataquest study pointed the finger at human error and application failure 80% of the time. But if the network represents just 20% of the cause, it accounts for $67,000 of the exposure.

Contrast this to the cost of certification. A network with 600 Cat 6 copper lines undergoes certification testing. A realistic assumption is that 5% of the links fail the initial test and must be repaired and retested. Using a Fluke Networks cable certifier, the entire process of cable certification will take approximately 11 staff-hours. At a commercial rate of $65 per hour, the expense is less than $750.