Cabling: The Complete Guide to Copper and Fiber-Optic Networking

Excellent book

I bought this book because I work in the cabling world of telecommunications dealing with Multi-pair, Cat6, Coax, Fiber, and even Fire Alarm Cable. My brain was filled with 1000’s of questions that everyone I worked with didn’t have the answers to. I knew there was more reason to the madness! It’s not just “that’s the way it is!”This book has all of the information you are looking for in one giant book, just be sure to use the glossary.

Gigantic book that actually covers two courses at my community college; copper cabling and fiber cabling. It covers every topic under the sun and the teacher said he will use every chapter except three; Networking, Customer Service and one other I don't recall. Funny thing is all examples are provided by one cable manufacturer and it's not Panduit. In school we went through all that was copper wiring and it is well covered, the fiber theory and standards also. You will need to practice but with the book's help this might be great start to a new profesion. Look in Amazon for the book I found it for half of the list price.

Currently reading the first chapter, I would say it is a comfortable read for now, let's see. Lots of information in this book and I have a way to go.Will update soon.

Whatever question you have about cabling, be it electric cables, be it optical cables, you can find the answer here. Complete, comprehensive, pragmatic. Perfect when you need to research one of the many sub-subjects of cabling.

I use it every time I need to do something first time!

Great book lots of information and diagrams.

I bought this book used to review since one of our schools asked about it for use in a course as compared to my earlier books "The Fiber Optic Technicians Manual" and "Data, Voice and Video Cabling." I reviewed about half of it and found it hard to read - almost stream of consciousness - with two many asides - almost like it was a transcript of a class that was never edited. As i do with all books on fiber optics, I went to the section on OTDRs and looked at their descriptions of its use - and this book does not understand what causes ghosts or gainers.What bothered me the most was the possible plaigarism - the similarity of text to my books in some sections and similarity to some of our graphics. Consider for example the drawings about fiber optic connector termination on pages 418-430 to the photos in The Fiber Optic Technicians Manual on pages 91-93 (and the larger set on the "Virtual Hands On - Connectors" web page now on the FOA website. These appear to be just line drawings copied from my photos - right down to the six-shooter connector curing oven (p 426 vs p 92).I'd advise anyone considering this book to look at the "FOA Reference Guide" series to get the facts and save money.

Nothing very knowledgeable book

Excellent Book for Fiber Optic Technician and Field Worker.

Updated with new standards

If you 're in the cable industry or work in and run a Data Centre this book is worth the purchase. Covers all cabling topics in depth from copper to fibre.