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Training:
VDV
Academy
- Free Online Tutorials
Created By VDVWorks:
Lennie
Lightwave's Guide To Fiber Optics
Uncle
Ted's Guide To Communications Cabling
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- Contact us
VDV Works
- Santa Monica, CA 90403
Tel 1-760-990-3936
- email:
jeh @ jimhayes.com
- web: www.vdvworks.com
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- VDV Works offers
tech support for the voice-data-video (VDV) communications
industry. We lecture, teach and consult on fiber optics
and communications, consult on technology and marketing
for fiber optics and manage the Fiber
Optic Association (FOA).
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- What's VDV?
- Voice, data and
video communications covers a lot of territory: telephones
including wireless, the Internet, LANs (local area
networks), OLANs (Optical LANs), SANs (storage area
networks), data centers,, CATV and CCTV, 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 40+ years of
experience in communications, specializing in fiber optics
and structured cabling. Our many 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 AT&T's divestiture in the early 80s and Jim has
many 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.
In
1995, we co-founded the Fiber Optic Association, Inc. with
the instructors and supporters of Fotec's Fiber U Training
Conference. We had been training fiber techs since 1982 and
training trainers to teach others. Since the beginning we
have been involved in the FOA from both technical and
operations sides and have been running the organization
under contract for the last 15 years.
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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 FOA
(Fiber Optic Association, Inc.), the professional
society of fiber optics, including administering the FOA's
certification programs, standards activities, creation of
training curriculum, editing and publishing textbooks
(e.g. The FOA Reference Guide to Fiber Optics and
the Fiber Optic Technicians Manual textbooks and
NECA-301 installation standard) and maintaining the
FOA website.
- We have
consulted with manufacturing organizations -large and
small- to review their product offerings and provide
assistance in developing products, specifying the products
according to industry standards, developing marketing
programs and strategies, developing customer training
programs and training company personnel.
- We
have consulted with investment groups on markets and
technology.
- 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 help
organizations create online training based on techniques
we developed to offer Fiber U Online back in 1997.
- We have done
technical consulting on new produces and patents.
- 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
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FOA we coordinate with FOA approved schools and the
Master Instructors worldwide to develop training
curriculum for students and instructors and self-study
programs for technicians/installers available through the
website of The Fiber
Optic Association.
- Our experience
in training is extensive, including training over ten
thousand students in person and hundreds of thousands
through our online training (since 1997, 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. Jim
Hayes Resume
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- Free Online
Tutorials
- VDV Works created
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 Communications Cabling
Cabling (with "virtual hands-on" tutorials on terminating
category-rated UTP cabling.)
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- In addition, the
FOA offers free online self-study programs at Fiber
U.
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(C) 2003-2025 VDV Works
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