Berk-Tek Press Releases

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.