New from Greenlee is a HDMI Field Installation Kit designed to let the installer make custom length High Speed HDMI cables. The kit includes the stripper, crimper and field installable HDMI plugs allowing the installer to make any custom length HD …

The answer to that questions is no. We have recently had some questions regarding the transmission distance of Cat 5E and Cat 6.  The distance for 10/100/1000 is 100 meters (328 feet) regardless of whether or not it is Cat 5E or Cat 6.The main …

FXS is the jack on the wall that provides the dial tone you hook a plain old telephone (POTS) too.FXO is the jack on the phone itself that receives the dial tone.Essentially the FXO and FXS ports were connected in the POTS world.The terms FXS and …

PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) is what your standard Category 5e and Category 6 cable jacket is constructed of.  This PVC jacket when burning or smoldering releases hydrochloric acid and dioxin which are both toxic.  Plenum cable is made of Tef …

There is a new video security system in town and it’s called HD-CVI (High Definition Video Interface).HD-CVI is a digital video transmission system capable of delivering up to 1080p resolution over standard coaxial cable.HD-CVI also breaks the coaxi …

IP camera systems are sounding like alphabet soup.Mbps, MP, FPS, ONVIF, NVR.Today we will tackle Mbps and how it relates to NVRs and IP Cameras.#1 Mbps: MegaBits Per Second – Basically the data through-put ability of your NVR and your network.Our n …

IP Camera FPS (Frames Per Second) ExplainedWhat is the Frame Rate? Simply, frame rate is how many single still images are recorded in a unit of time. With IP surveillance we look at how many images we can see in one second. 30 FPS (30 recorded …

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