American Access Technologies (fka AATK)

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AATK products highlighted in leading trade journal Cabling Installation & Maintenance.

Active zone cabling products address space and cost concerns

Going beyond the passive zone, a new family of telecom enclosures gives designers more flexibility and efficiency.

A new family of telecommunications enclosures (TEs) incorporates active electronics with the advantages of zone cabling. Passive zone cabling offers design convenience and cost-effective moves, adds, and changes (MACs). Active zone cabling delivers a topology newly recognized by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA—Arlington, VA; www.tiaonline.org) that provides further flexibility and efficiency for network designers confronting such challenges as limited telecommunications room space and increasing costs.

What's the difference?
Passive zone cabling extends permanent horizontal cabling to a logical termination point. When MAC work is required, often the only cable that needs to be replaced is the last piece of run from the zone cabling enclosure to the work area outlet or device. This section of cable is a solid conductor, plug-to-plug or plug-to-jack assembly that is typically 6 to 9 meters long, instead of an entire horizontal run of up to 90 meters.

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