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Training:
VDV Academy
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Online Tutorials:
Lennie
Lightwave's Guide To Fiber Optics
Uncle Ted's Guide
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- Contact
us
Karen and Jim Hayes
VDV Works LLC
1119 S. Mission Road #355
- Fallbrook,
CA 92028
Tel 1-760-451-3655
Fax 1-781-207-2421
email: jim.hayes @ vdvworks.com
- web:
www.vdvworks.com
(C) 2003-2006
VDV Works LLC
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- VDV
Works offers tech support for the voice-data-video (VDV) industry. We
consult on technology and marketing in fiber optics and communications,
create and license training curriculum used for teaching fiber optics
and structured cabling and offer self-study and onsite training
programs through VDV
Academy and provide "content" for websites, brochures,
manuals and training.
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- What's
VDV?
- Voice,
data and video covers a lot of territory: telephones, LANs (local area
networks), SANs (storage area networks), CATV and CCTV, Internet,
security and even fiber optic networks in vehicles (MOST).
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- And
What's VDV Works?
- We're
a husband (Jim Hayes) and wife (Karen Hayes) team with 25+ years of
experience in telecommunications and computer networking, specializing
in fiber optics and structured cabling. Our 25+ years as successful
entrepreneurs,including running Fotec, the fiber optic test equipment
company we sold to Fluke Networks in 2001, has given us in-depth
sensitivity to most business issues, including marketing, R&D,
engineering, PR/advertising and manufacturing.
- In addition, Karen's background
includes public affairs and consulting on divestiture in the early 80s
and Jim has another 15 years in semiconductors and instrumentation.
This gives us familiarity with many networking technologies and
applications and allows us to provide technical and marketing
assistance that leads to market success, teaches effectively, creates
the right kind of image for your organization and helps you support
your customers properly.
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- Consulting
- Our
broad base of experience has allowed us to help a wide variety of
clients in a number of unique ways. We manage the operations of The Fiber Optic Association,
Inc., the professional society of fiber optics, including
administering the FOA's certification programs, standards activities,
publishing (e.g. The Fiber Optic Technicians Manual textbook
and NECA-301 installation standard) and maintaining
the FOA website. We recently helped found the Structured Cabling Association,
Inc. also.
- We
have worked with manufacturers to provide technical assistance in
developing products, promoting them to customers and supporting them in
the field.
- We
have consulted with large training organizations to develop
communications training programs, both basic and advanced, that have
been enthusiastically accepted by commercial and military customers.
- We
also have done legal consulting on patents and litigation.
- If
you have a problem in fiber optics or VDV cabling, call us to discuss
it. If we can't help, we probably know someone who can!
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- Training:
- Through
VDV
Academy, we offer training curriculum for instructors and
self-study programs for technicians/installers. Our experience in
training is extensive, including training over ten thousand students in
person and hundreds of thousands through our online training (the first
in the industry.) Our "Fiber U" and "Cable U" programs were known
worldwide and Jim
was named one of fiber optics' "luminaries" by Fiberoptic
Product News
magazine for his contributions to the industry through training and
recognized by BroadBand Properties magazine as one of the Pioneers in
FTTH for his education and recruitment activities.
- VDV
Academy provides turn-key training curriculum for instructors teaching
fiber optics and/or structured cabling based on our own textbooks, The Fiber
Optic Technicians Manual and Data, Voice
and Video Cabling.
- The
VDV
Academy curriculum is used by hundreds of instructors at
commercial training organizations, companies and high schools, colleges
and universities teaching technicians involved in diverse areas such as
FTTH/FTTP (fiber to the home or premise), information technology, LANs,
security and military applications.
- We
have instructors around the world we can recommend to provide hands-on
courses for installers and train-the-trainer programs for instructors.
We even offer self-study programs with hands-on modules for those who
learn best on their own. See VDV Academy,
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- Free
Online Tutorials
- VDV
Works offers two free online tutorials for those getting started in
fiber optics or structured cabling. These websites have been used by
more techs to get started than any other website or publication because
they are the best overviews of the technologies available anywhere!
Feel free to link to these guides from your website.
Lennie
Lightwave's Guide To Fiber Optics (with "virtual hands-on" tutorials in
termination and testing and a tutorial on OTDRs.)
Uncle Ted's Guide
To VDV (voice/data/video) Cabling (with "virtual hands-on" tutorials on
terminating category-rated UTP cabling.)
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Best Kept Secret About Websites and Literature - CONTENT
What keeps people returning to your website? What makes a company's
literature more effective? What makes training more effective and
relevant? CONTENT! Technical materials for reference or education are
the biggest reason visitors return to websites. Up-to-date training is
more effective and rewarding to students. Good technical literature can
reduce customer support costs. But generating good material and keeping
it up to date is difficult, time consuming and costly. VDV Works
specializes in content that benefits both its users and providers - see
"Lennie" and "Uncle Ted" for examples - they are the most popular web
sites for beginners in fiber optics and structured cabling.
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- "Not
enough can be said about having pertinent, solid, viable and
interesting content at a web site.The key ingredient in any
well-visited site is memorable content that is also useful.
If attractive and useful, customers stay and explore. If the content
comes from someone you trust, the added credibility makes it even
easier to set up a purchasing environment. If they tell their friends,
you have the beginning of a community. When friends tell friends, it
explodes all because the content provided the user with a positive
experience."
- Internet
Commerce Metrics and Models, Jagannathan, Srinivasan &
Kalman, Prentice Hall, 2002.
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the links at the left to see what VDV works can offer to you or contact
us.
(C) 2003-2008 VDV Works LLC
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