Berk-Tek Press Releases

New Holland, PA, April 12, 2012..Berk-Tek, a Nexans Company, is pleased to announce Paul Trunk as the President of Berk-Tek and Vice President and General Manager of Nexans LAN Division North America, reporting to Steve Hall, Nexans Executive Vice President – North and South America.

New Holland, PA – August 2011–  A/V Technology Magazine features Carol Everett Oliver, RCDD/ESS, Berk-Tek's marketing analyst, as a noteworthy innovator.

New Holland, PA – August 2011–  CNS Magazine takes a look at Berk-Tek as it celebrates its 50th birthday and how it has evolved since 1961 with an interview with Kevin St. Cyr.

New Holland, PA – April 14, 2011 – Graybar, one of Berk-Tek’s leading distributors of their copper and fiber cable products for more than 30 years, presented Berk-Tek with the first Graybar Supplier Excellence Award at their National Training Conference, held April 7-9 in Orlando, FL.

Las Vegas, NV – April 7, 2011 – Berk-Tek, a Nexans Company, an innovative leader in copper and fiber optic cable technology, received the “Best in Network Support Solutions” award for the OneReach PoE Extender system in the Security Industry Association (SIA) New Product Showcase (NPS).  This is the first time a cabling manufacturer has won this award.

Berk-Tek OM4 Pre-Terminated Fiber Assemblies Successfully Exceed 800m. Distance

Berk-Tek, a Nexans Company, a copper and fiber optic cable technology and solutions leader, announces the offering of the OneReach system which is an integrated power and data cable solution for extended distances, such as for security cameras or access points, beyond the 100 meters of conventional Power over Ethernet (PoE) solutions – up to 3,850 feet.

Berk-Tek introduces Low Skew Cable

On May 1, 2011, Berk-Tek will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of its founding. The 50th Anniversary theme is "Innovation & Excellence" and succesfully captures the past, reinforces the current vision and values, and will be the foundation for an exciting future.

New Holland, PA, May 12, 2010... Berk-Tek announces three college recipients of the Boscov Scholarship for 2010/2011 school year.

New Holland, PA – November 4, 2009…Berk-Tek, a Nexans Company, one of the leading copper and fiber optic cabling manufacturers, announces that their  fiber optic cable family includes fiber grades that exceeds the recently ratified TIA-492AAAD for OM4 specifications.

New Holland, PA – May 4, 2009…Berk-Tek, a Nexans Company, now provides customers independent ETL Verification of cable performance to Berk-Tek specified cable requirements, which significantly exceed the TIA/EIA-568-B.2 and ISO/IEC 11801 standards that have traditionally served as the industry benchmarks. Berk-Tek is the first manufacturer to develop this program at the component level, which focuses on the LANmark™ family of Category 5e, 6 and 6a cables.

New Holland, PA – February 12, 2009…Berk-Tek, a Nexans Company, a leading copper and fiber optic cabling manufacturer, announced today that recently completed process improvements to the LANmark™-10G2 cable have resulted in higher performance for this Category 6a UTP cable.  Berk-Tek has increased all crosstalk parameters over the previous design, which was guaranteed to meet component performance as specified by ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-10 Category 6a (or Augmented Category 6). 

New Holland, PA – January 13, 2009…Berk-Tek, a Nexans Company  (a leading copper and fiber optic cabling manufacturer), along with NVT (manufacturer of CCTV active equipment for convergence to UTP) and JVC (manufacturer of CCTV components – cameras, DVRs, etc.) are combining their expertise in the Electronic Safety and Security (ESS) market to host a 3-hour workshop, “CCTV Convergence: The Path to IP” at the BICSI Winter Conference on Monday, January 19, at the Rosen Shingle Creek Conference Center in Orlando, FL.