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Taking Advantage of the Wireless Market
October 2000
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  • Your Business

In the United States, cellular service providers are hurrying to build communications towers to supply these Personal Communications Services (PCSs), and construction is expected to continue through the early part of the next century, at the very least.

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Wired for Sound
September 2000
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  • Residential

In power and communications systems, cabling is the essential physical layer. The same is true for sound or audio systems. Sound can include very fundamental and necessary services a commercial building may require—announcements, pages, background music, or advertising.

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Choosing a Pricing Strategy For Your VDV Services
September 2000
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  • Systems

Successful electrical contracting firms consistently earn higher-than-normal profit margins in the voice/data/video (VDV) market by providing VDV solutions, not just by selling time and material with a markup. Expanding a business paradigm goes beyond expanding its scope of services.

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VDV Support Selection: No Longer an Either/Or Choice
September 2000
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  • Systems

For voice/data/video (VDV) cabling installations, as with power installations, everyone—including electrical contractor and client—benefits from support systems that are easily installed overhead in a suspended ceiling or under a raised floor and readily accept cable initially and during later addit

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Inside or Outside,Voice/Data Contractors Prosper
September 2000
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  • Your Business

While the stock market has beaten up on electrical, mechanical, and hybrid roll-up companies, voice/data/video (VDV) specialty companies—focusing on long-haul networks and other “outside” work, or on-site network service work—are thriving.

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Contractors Face Incompatibility Issues in Low-voltage Installations
September 2000
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  • Systems

Prior to the advent of national and international standards, IBM, DEC, Wang, and others created proprietary networking systems.

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Clean Power for Network Systems
August 2000
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  • Systems

In this age of fast food, cellular phones, and instant lottery tickets, people want action, and they want it now. So why should power conditioning for computer networks be any different?

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Branding Your Firm in the VDV Market
August 2000
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  • Systems

Successful electrical contractors have “branded” themselves in the eyes of their customers, which in this context means they have differentiated themselves from competitors in one or more ways.

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Bidding Telecommunications Cabling, Part III: Preparing the Costing
August 2000
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  • Systems

An electrical contractor’s most difficult task of a telecommunications cabling bid is preparing the costing.

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Choosing Fiber Optic Connectors and Using Them Properly
July 2000
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  • Systems

When electrical contractors first decide to get into the fiber optic local area network (LAN) installation business, they have a plethora of factors to consider before ever making a single connection.

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New Technology Driving Network Wiring for the Home
June 2000
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  • Systems

The Internet. Livingroom LANs. The Internet. Telecommuting. The Internet. Security. The Internet. DBS satellite and cable TV. And, if you didn't catch it before…the Internet.

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Contractors Need Training to Succeed in VDV
May 2000
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  • Systems

For many electrical contractors, the voice/data/video (VDV) market is a frightening new world, because it is possible to install low-voltage systems incorrectly. However, the profits and opportunities open to competent installers are persuading many to enter the market.

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Partnering with V/D/V Suppliers
May 2000
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  • Systems

Supplier relationships can contribute greatly to the success of an electrical contracting firm's voice/data/video (V/D/V) market entry.

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A Common-sense Approach to Futureproofing Your Local Area Network
May 2000
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  • Systems

Businesses today thrive and grow based on their ability to link employees, customers, suppliers, and distributors in local area networks (LANs).

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Diversification Strategies for Entering the V/D/V Market
March 2000
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  • Systems

Diversification in business refers to entering new markets. Entering the emerging voice/data/video (VDV) market for an electrical contracting firm that has concentrated solely on traditional power distribution is certainly diversification.

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Futureproofing Today for Tomorrow's Success
March 2000
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  • Systems

Futureproofing a communications wiring system today is difficult. A successful cabling system must be designed and implemented with the intention of integrating voice/data/ video traffic for both now and the future.

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LANs Provide Inexpensive Submetering for Data Highways
March 2000
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  • Your Business

Although the technology has been around for several years, some contractors are just now experiencing a surge in submeter sales.

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