Monthly Archives: October 2015

Single Mode or OM4 Fiber?

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We have all been working to replace the old 62.5 fiber cable(OM1) to achieve speeds 1GPBS+. The debate is now why not just use single mode for all short distance fiber runs? The cable itself is much cheaper than 0M4. The LC connectors cost slightly more and the optics can be more expensive. There is no minimum distance for Cisco SFP-10G-LR-S so it works good with 1 meter connections or 10KM connections. Single Mode fiber will support 100gbps currently whereas OM4 will only do 10gbps 1540ft.

Informacast Review

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I tell people “You can do anything with informacast”. The software package they provide literally has everything you could think when it comes mass campus communication. I have never seen such a scalable product with so many awesome features. The interface is very simple yet powerful. I feel better knowing our administration can instantly put our campuses in emergency mode with 2 seconds phone call and a canned message.

I wish you could limit staff to certain ring lists and not give them full control of all campuses.

We have many analog bell systems that are showing their age. Moving to IP will let us compartmentalize our system and just replace speakers. We are had great success with our Cisco IP phone system implementation and informacast can do the same for our many bell systems.

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