Becoming a registered user on OCC’s website can give you several great benefits you won’t receive by just perusing our website.  Even though all of our product brochures, industry brochures and other forms of literature are available on our website for anyone to see, did you know that you have to be a registered user in order to download or print any of those documents?  That means as a customer, you can get the information that you need faster and with little hassle– and more importantly, without having to contact your sales rep!

Another feature of becoming a registered user is having access to the OCC’s Events Page.  As many of you know, OCC exhibits at several major trade shows each year.  By becoming a registered user, you can see all the upcoming shows that OCC will be exhibiting at during the course of the year and can take advantage of visiting us at these venues

Lastly, after you go through the process of becoming a registered user and is approved, every time you log-in to the OCC website you will see a personalized screen with the current ISR and OSR for your particular region—making contacting your rep simpler than ever!

More access to OCC’s content, information on where OCC will be throughout the year, and a personalized ‘Contact Us’ page are just some of the reasons why you should become a registered user with OCC.  Our Marketing Department is also constantly updating and expanding the information that is available to our registered users and has many new features that will be added over the next couple of months.  Check back soon for more information!

This week OCC is wrapping up the recent Fall BICSI 2012 Conference in Anaheim, CA. While this show tends to be the smaller of the two conferences that BICSI hosts each year, it did not go without OCC gaining significant attention to the new products we were showcasing.

The first product we showcased was our new Procyon copper solution. The biggest draw to the Procyon copper solution at the conference was its simplistic approach to high-density connectivity. With 48 ports in one rack unit coupled with pre-terminated cable assemblies, the Procyon copper solution was viewed as the simplest copper system to deploy in the data center. Every time we opened the Procyon cabinet, we reinforced OCC’s value to the customer: providing high performing products, reduced labor costs and ease of installation and access.

Our second featured product constantly drew a lot of attention and kept our sales team busy. The new 4G Cellular Distribution system (CDS) certainly brought a lot of people to the booth. It was perfect timing to introduce our new Distributed Antenna System (DAS) product. This was the first BICSI conference where DAS has taken center stage including a technical forum where the audience filled the room beyond capacity. OCC focused on selling the simplicity of our CDS kit, which consists of the CDS unit, antennas and surge suppression. A single customer summed up the general response from the attendees…’I did not know OCC could so easily solve our coverage problems’. In addition, we can supply the cable assemblies, making OCC a one-stop shop for the entire system. Similar to the Procyon solution, OCC promoted the value of the CDS product and how effectively it works within most environments.

Overall, while the show was less attended than most BICSI conferences, the overwhelming response to the products OCC showcased can be easily recognized.

-Submitted by Stephen Porach, Business Development Manager, Enterprise

Bill Smith is an OCC Business Development Specialist and Member of Society of Broadcast Engineers with over 20 years’ experience in technical sales in the communication industry

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Supporting some of the largest sports productions in the U.S., NEP Supershooters has been using OCC fiber optic cable for their remote production vehicles and studio productions for over 10 years. Unique because of their ability and expertise to work in the broadcast industry from inside the studio to remote locations in major cities around the world, NEP uses a broadcast deployable fiber cable from OCC that more than exceeds their requirements for HD and 3D TV and digital audio. OCC’s cable attaches to production trucks that connect directly through media convertors or NID boxes. These cables allow the voice, data and video signals to route directly from the event to engineering team for final production.

You will find NEP In the mountains, on the coasts and everywhere in between bringing current events in our homes. Skiing, auto racing, golf, surfing, Major League Baseball, rock concerts and even the Olympics are a few of the diverse venues and events NEP has covered. NEP depends on the reliability and performance of OCC’s fiber cable to supports their technical requirements for excellence.

You’ve heard of the Bro Code and seen all the different Bro Tips, right?  Well, OCC is abiding by the Pro Code and we’d like to start sharing some of our  Protips™ that everyone in the structured cabling business should know about!

Did you happen to see a recent article posted by Cabling Installation and Maintenance entitled “3 intriguing cable spaghetti ‘before and after’ scenarios”?  (If you haven’t, here it is)

After seeing CI & M’s article, we started thinking about some of our own cabinet nightmares and how we were able to improve the look and functionality.  Take a look at our before and after photos —  the “before” shot is the front of a cabinet without a proper cable management system in place.  The “after” shot was achieved simply by adding our 25 pair connectivity on the back of the rack with proper cable management!  What do you think?!

The Before…

And the after…

Advantages of our 25 pair solution:

• Reduced install costs by 20% +
• Reduced install time by 75%
• Switch upgrades are faster and easier
• Less cables to manage between racks, easier management
• Easier to track cables between racks
• Mac work can be handled by onsite staff
• Less Mess and Cleanup
• Better Cable management
• Re-useable Cables
• Throughput Guarantees, Gigabit Ethernet Guarantee
• Alien Crosstalk (ANEXT) Mitigation
• 35% reduction in OD of cable bundles
• Smaller bundles mean less blocking of cooling air flow, reducing power and cooling costs.
• 20 % reduction of cable weight on raised floor

So you tell us…

OCC’s Quad Box provides the ultimate in flexibility and functionality and is ideal for installations requiring minimal downtime.  Take a look at our video to hear more on why OCC’s Quad Box stands out from all the rest:

The demand for power continues to grow worldwide with the majority of it being produced via coal fired power plants.  This in turn increases the demand for coal requiring coal mines to be more efficient in their operations.  The mining community has responded by developing faster methods of mining that use more sophisticated equipment.  This equipment is monitored for peak performance and the data is transmitted back to the surface.  The transmission is typically done via fiber optic cables, which OCC has been providing to the mining markets for over 15 years.  OCC fiber optic cable solutions for mining offer a comprehensive and versatile set of products to address the mining industry’s voice, data, and video cabling requirements, including fiber optic cables that are MSHA rated for underground use.

The unique cable designs and configurations from OCC provide long-term reliability, as well as safe and secure transmission of critical data and communications. Our unique Core-Locked™ technology in combination with other design features provides the most rugged fiber optic cable in the industry.  On top of that, OCC is the only manufacturer that has a line of connectivity products to complement our cable.  F-LINK, EZ-MATE and M-83526 connectors are just a couple of the extremely rugged and durable connectors that are being used in the mining industry due to their ability to survive harsh environments.

At the end of September, OCC will be exhibiting at the world’s largest mining show, MinExpo, in Las Vegas.  We will be promoting our entire line of products with a focus on our MSHA cables and Harsh environment products.  In particular we will have our MSHA cables, EZ-MATE, and MHC II on display. Are you attending MinExpo?  Be sure to stop by OCC’s booth to see all the great products and solutions we have to offer the Mining industry!

With more and more new data centers popping up everyday, structured cabling design and installation have become increasingly more important.   With increased data rates and larger cable counts, the debate on the pros and cons of fiber optic cable and copper cable in the industry has become more pronounced.  While copper is less expensive, easier to install and more readily available, fiber can carry a lot more data with speeds much faster than copper — all the while being thinner and weighing much less than copper cable. However, if your focus is PoE based, telephone, or surveillance, copper offers the distinct advantage of delivering both power and data to your devices.

While both fiber optic and copper cable each have their own set of pros and cons for different on your applications, it seems that combining the two in the data center on some level is imminent.  OCC products are designed with this synergy in mind.  The new OCC high density Procyon solution has been architected to provide both copper and fiber connectivity with the highest density available on the market, with novel cable management features to ease your high density operating experience.  Our Procyon solution offers customers the best of both worlds in fiber optic cable and copper cable.

For serious data center operators, OCC has developed a complete end to end solution approach for both your copper and fiber cabling and connectivity needs.  OCC’s Procyon products are high density and a pre-terminated product set designed for easy installation and novel cable management features that accessibility a breeze at a cost effective price.

Want to learn more about our Procyon solution?  Visit our website or contact us today!   800-622-7711  visit www.occfiber.com/procyon.

Mike Martin is a Business Development Manager for OCC specializing in the Oil and Gas Industry.

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As a first for the company, OCC published a market brochure aimed at the Oil & Gas markets and it debuted just in time for the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in May. OCC continued its push into the Oil and Gas markets by having a fantastic new booth with products geared toward the Oil and Gas markets and had great representation in the booth that included both domestic and international representatives. Attendance at the 2012 OTC Show hit a 30-year high with more than 89,400 making the trip to Houston’s Reliant Park and it showed in the quantity and quality of the visitors to OCC’s booth.

Visitors from around the world gave this year’s event a true international flair, allowing OCC to showcase it’s Oil and Gas products to more than 200 booth visitors representing 15 countries, including visitors from throughout the USA and countries such as Canada, China, Mexico, Great Britain, Saudi Arabia, Ecuador, Brazil and many others.  Since the show is geared toward the offshore Oil and Gas market, OCC’s booth highlighted our LSZH Marine Grade fiber optic cables, the harsh environment connectivity line including products manufactured of marine grade brass and fiber/copper connectivity products.  OTC was yet another great show for OCC and we look forward to returning to Reliant Park in Houston, Texas next year!

Bill Smith, OCC’s Business Development Specialist, serves as a member of Society of Broadcast Engineers and has over 20 years of experience in Technical Sales in the Communication Industry.

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The Broadcast market moves many cables in and out of production studios and remote production events. OCC developed the Cartridge System to increase the reliability of handling diverse cables. This stackable reel system minimizes down time and set-up because of its unique configuration. Everything you need is contained in one single unit.

Optical Cable Corporation’s MARS™ Cartridge System is another accessory member of Modular Advanced Reel System specifically designed for fiber optic cable. The MARS Cartridge System offers the most advanced, self-contained, fiber optic reeling system for broadcast, military or deployable communication environments. MARS reels are designed to inter-operate across a full family of reel accessories. The MARS Cartridge system employs many of the same cradle features found in the MARS Cradle system (reel release knob and roller reels) allowing multiple reels to be exchanged within one platform.  For more details and product demonstrations, please visit us at NAB Booth # C10345 in Las Vegas April 15^th-19th.

Please take a look in the new 2012 catalog or on the website at https://www.occfiber.com/ or contact a member from the Sales team for more information- 1-800-622-7711