Lockable Network Connector Application Note

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RJ45 is the world's most common contact but it’s not the most stable contact in the world. In most environments, contacts are falling out perhaps because someone is standing on the cable or because the connector is located in a hostile environment with vibrations, lots off public access or staff. All this is prevented if you install RJ45Lock. And if you install it properly, the contact won’t be disconnected until you unlock it.

The dependability will increase if you use RJ45Lock at critical points in a network as servers, internet access and network printer for example. Technicians and personnel who are working in a patch panel will get a hint when they notice that some of the cables are locked in the panel and understand that there is a reason for the contact to be locked. You don’t unlock a contact and release it, if you’re not sure that it should be disconnected.

With RJ45Block you increase the physical safety in your network. With this blind plug it’s possible to lock free female RJ45 jacks and by this block out unauthorized people from connecting to the network. Sometime there are free connections in for example patch panels but they are still in use by alarm ore other functions and if you connect to this point it’s possible to disturb the signal for this system.

Machines in public areas can be very tempting for what we refer to as “changing-over-enthusiast”. I think you know who we are talking about. It’s these guys that are changing places on cables just because they can or think they know what they are doing, but they don’t. In hotel rooms it’s tempting to “borrow” some free internet access or movies from the pay-tv system.

In conference centers and larger organizations it’s common that we are spending time searching for a projector or a laptop (that’s normally in the meeting room but someone moved it to conference room 4). Everybody knows where it used to be but it’s to easy to move around. White RJ45Lock to secure your equipment. It becomes much harder for the regular employees to just move it so they are more likely to give a technician a call.

The benefits are numerous, probably more then we can account for here. But the fact is that if only one of a hundred cables prevents a or save a couple of hours in fault detecting, that’s enough for paying for the investment to change all the cables to RJ45Lock.

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