Belden offers expertise in all networking product types—copper, optical fiber and wireless. Being experts in all media gives Belden the distinct edge in the marketplace. TESSCO and Belden will take an objective look at an application and recommend the best possible product mix to suit your immediate and future needs.

View the entire Belden product offering Unlicensed Point-to-Point, Fiber Optic Cable & Components, 50-Ohm Braided Coax Cable, 75-Ohm Braided Coax Cable, Telephone Interconnect & Remote Control, Automotive Electrical, Automotive and Speaker Wire, Tools for Telecom & Datacom.

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A Robust Industrial Ethernet Infrastructure Consisting of Environmentally Hardened Network Cabling, Connectivity, and Active Components Is Essential to Long-Term Performance and Reliability

Industrial Ethernet is trending to be the principal infrastructure choice for mission-critical industrial automation and control applications. Industrial Ethernet is built on the same standards-based networking platform as enterprise Ethernet, which has long reigned as the universal network solution.

Industrial Ethernet connects the office with the plant floor by utilizing a single cabling platform with Ethernet connectivity and IP addressing. This convergence of open, standards-based Ethernet communications provides all the advantages of secure, seamless interoperability among manufacturing enterprise networks — from corporate offices to the shop floor — and enables Internet and enterprise connectivity, anytime and anywhere.

To learn more about building a robust industrial Ethernet infrastructure consisting of environmentally hardened network cabling, connectivity, and active components: 

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Compression Connectors and Tools for Audio/Video, Safety and Security

Belden is pleased to offer a line of compression connectors and tools for the audio/video, safety and security markets. Built to Belden’s exacting standards, these connectors and tools, combined with their coaxial cables, assure the highest quality, and provide maximum signal reliability and performance. Plus, you’ll get the convenience of buying through a single, familiar distribution network—saving you time and money.

Highlights include three 360-degree compression rings to ensure excellent signal integrity, the elimination of crimp reflections, and better aesthetics and retention strength. Belden connectors offer a viewed entry point with pop-up pin that provides visual confirmation of positive termination, reducing call backs and installation costs. The custom compression tools require less force making them easier to use, thus reducing installation time and guaranteeing a positive compression. For added peace of mind, Belden offers a limited lifetime warranty on the connectors when used with Belden cable, and a limited 10-year warranty when used with other brands of cable.

Compression Connector Applications

Fiber Optic Cable, Connectors, and Accessories

Belden FiberExpress Brilliance Connectors

The FiberExpress Brilliance connector offers installers and endusers alike the fastest, simplest, most cost-effective and reliable field-installable connector in the industry. This connector can be used as a backbone, horizontal, or fiber-to-the-desk component in any commercial building or data center. The features of this connector position it as the industry’s best solution for the challenges of field connectorization of optical fiber networks. It is also the connector of choice for high-speed optical networks such as 10G Ethernet and the more challenging 40G/100G networks of the future.

FiberExpress Brilliance field-installable connectors make fiber terminations really fast, simple and reliable. Brilliant in their design and implementation, they are the only fiber optic connectors in the marketplace to offer reliable terminations can be achieved in as little as five seconds. Termination requires no specialized tools, with basic fiber preparation tools, you’re ready to go! The Brilliance connector can be re-terminated up to five times, offering improved connector termination yields, which means lower material costs and no connector waste. The connector’s window enables on-the-spot installation feedback, when using a Visual Fault Locator (VFL). No other fiber field-termination connector compares to Brilliance!

Learn more about:

• The 6 key design criteria to define your optical fiber infrastructure.(PDF)
• Distribution fiber optic cables.(PDF)

Copper Network Cable and Accessories

Networking Systems

Today’s Enterprise facilities depend on several key operating systems to support mission-critical information systems, advanced communications networks, premise security systems and building automation and control systems. To ensure efficient, productive and secure daily operations, each of these vital systems must provide effective, reliable performance while supporting and managing the complex connectivity and networking requirements of users, devices, servers and processors in both local and remote topologies. From the data center and LAN to building management, A/V applications and security and alarm systems, Belden engineers, delivers and guarantees the signal transmission solutions that provide the advanced performance and reliability that Enterprise operating systems and business processes rely on.

Belden has a tremendous history and unmatched experience in the design, manufacture and support of networking solutions from the data center to the desktop. The result is a full range of top-quality, high-performance copper end-to-end networking systems backed by a depth of knowledge unequaled in the marketplace.

Learn more about:

• Defining the system that is best suited to your application.(PDF)
• Comparing IBDN Systems performance. (PDF)
• Definitions of the parameters used in the performance chart, and why they are important. (PDF)
  

Belden IBDN Copper Systems Performance and Component Selection Matrix

RF Cable

Belden RF Series Low-Loss 50-Ohm Coaxial Cables Deliver Superior Performance

Today's wireless protocols dictate the need for large, yet flexible coaxial cables that are precisely engineered for superior transmission quality and reliability. RF Series cables are ideal for use as antenna jumper cable assemblies and short antenna feeder runs in wireless communication systems such as Wireless local loop (WLL), Land Mobile Radio (LMR), PCS and cellular. They also can be used in (in-building) wireless applications such as internal communication systems and wireless LANs (WLANS/Wi-Fi).

Rugged, Yet Lightweight Construction

Belden RF series of low-loss 50-ohm coaxial cables meet industry-size standards with diameters from 0.195” (RF195) to 0.405” (RF400) and they are comprised of copper-clad aluminum conductors, the highest-quality, foamed high-density polyethylene (FHDPE) insulation, an aluminum foil and tinned copper-braid composite shield, and a choice of either PE or PVC jacket.

This construction is the optimum combination for a lightweight, low-loss, low VSWR, high velocity of propagation, and superior EMI/RFI cable. The cables also are 100% sweep tested for VSWR and exhibit excellent phase stability over both temperature changes and repeated flexing conditions—resulting in unsurpassed signal integrity and electrical performance.

For more information contact TESSCO at 800-472-7373 or email us today.