Telecom Cabling and Joint Health

The telecom cabling job market is growing. When many industries are shrinking with the economy, in many parts of the country telecom cabling technicians are in high demand, and are even seeing wages and salaries increase. This work, however, is not easy. The technical training and skill required is ample and the knowledge of standards […]

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The telecom cabling job market is growing. When many industries are shrinking with the economy, in many parts of the country telecom cabling technicians are in high demand, and are even seeing wages and salaries increase. This work, however, is not easy. The technical training and skill required is ample and the knowledge of standards and practices is pretty impressive as well. For all of the mental and technical difficulty, an often overlooked factor of these jobs is the physical difficulty. When working on large projects, a telecom cabling tech might be running hundreds of feet of cable through various awkward spaces to hundreds of end terminations. This type of cabling will require lots of bending over, kneeling, crawling and even sometimes heavy lifting. These motion put a great deal of stress on the back, knees and hips. Even for young and considerable healthy technicians, this sort of joint and muscle pressure can quickly take it’s toll, however you need not fear if you are minding your physical form as you do you work. Here are some ergonomic, yoga-teacher-approved tips to help keep your body happy and healthy while performing cabling tasks:

1. When bending down to below wast level, keep your feet a little than hips-distance apart and keep your knees unlocked.

2. Don’t bend at you waist! It places too much pressure on your spine to do so repetitively.

3. Try to make motions from up to down and down to up continuous, full body motions.

4. If your back starts to tense when you are bent over, softly bend your knees and roll from the bottom of your spine to the top with a loose neck. This will realign you spinal column and unknot your muscles.

5. When available, use your hands or hips to lean against solid object, taking the weight off your lower joints.

6. If pain arises in the knee joints while kneeling for long periods try sitting cross-legged or indian style to remove pressure on the nerves.

7. When standing for long periods, try to brace yourself against something, and allow yourself to move or sway occasionally to improve circulation to you legs.

8. (It sounds silly, but-) Breath while you move. It relax your muscles and allows your body to work at it’s best.

9. Wear good shoes. Make sure your footwear is appropriately protective. Sometimes it is worth a few extra bucks for the arch support in your boots. If your back always hurts, get better shoes.

10. You might also think about taking up Yoga. No, seriously.

This might seem like a lot to keep in mind for a little bit of back pain, but remember that these are action you will take thousands if not millions of times over the course of a career in telecom cabling.

The more consideration you take doing these tasks, the longer your body will physically be capable of doing them. Also, the more you body will be available to you for tasks outside of work, which is really what we reserve ourselves for, right?

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Although the cloud is becoming more and more of a household name, it still hasn’t been fully embraced by the majority of large companies, due to a low level of available security. The original idea behind the cloud was to make the power used to run large amounts of computers cheaper, more of a standard like electricity from a national grid. Unfortunately, though cloud-computing is on it’s way to becoming more cost effective, most companies are still relying on standard network cabling systems to get the job done. But technicians beware, new companies like Nicira are coming out with superior software that may change the future of cabling.

Amazon and other companies have churned out some great money saving cloud services, but many large corporations have decided to stay true to their own computer networks and resources. This can be seen as the equivalent of a house owner deciding to only use a generator for electricity, rather than rely on a a touch and go standard power system. The reason behind this is security issues — the way the network is built allows for easy reconfiguration, and makes the cloud shaky and less reliable. And providers who offer cloud computing services often run a whole data center on a single shared network. For example, if the large companies of Soda and Pop decided to both use one public cloud service, though all data storage is separate, they could be sharing the same network connection. This means that anyone who hacks into Soda’s data can quickly gain access to Pop’s as well. In addition, any days with a lot of computer action on Pop’s network will make Soda’s data transfers slower.

Founded in 2007, Nicira, which means vigilant in Sanskrit, is on a mission to make cloud computing more accessible and push the Internet to be more powerful than before. Their first step towards this goal is with the Network Virtualization Platform. This piece of technology is definitely for data centers and other companies with large networks — the common laptop owner can have a very difficult time understanding what it does. To break it down slightly, when this software is applied to a date center, it is able to stop the applications and programs that are functioning on the servers from interacting with any other network hardware. After this has been accomplished, a virtual network will create connections for the applications to run data. Basically, it does a better job than the physical switches and routers and makes them less important.

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