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Training:
VDV Academy
- Free Online Tutorials:
Lennie Lightwave's
Guide To Fiber Optics
Uncle
Ted's Guide To VDV (voice/data/video) Cabling
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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. 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. 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.
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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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- The 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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- See 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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