Several large California Wineries are using the Versa Technologies VX-VEB160r2 http://www.versatek.com/products/ethernet_extender.htm Ethernet Extender to provide up to the minute weather conditions on their vast properties. These conditions can often be different at the various locations.

The Ethernet Extenders allow the vinters to monitor the changing weather conditions and add protective coverings for the grapes if need be. Or they can remove protective coverings and allow the grapes to receive unlimited sun. Many of these locations are many acres from the main barn on the facilities. Furthermore, many of the remote locations are at different altitudes.

Ethernet Extension is becoming more popular in the agricultural sector as weather sensor equipment has become more dependable and less expensive. The remote weather sensors are solar powered with Category 5 or Category 3 wiring sending the data.

Did you know that the maximum length of a conventional ethernet cable is merely 100 meters? If you did not, now you do. But then the question remains: isn't 100 meters long enough already?

Introducing Power Over Ethernet and how it can empower your lives. Instead of hiring a technician to come wire your whole place up, POE technology is the perfect short-cut solution

 

Some people love Star Trek, some people hate it, and some people never care for it at all.

Star Trek often seems to just be a joke that is tired.

But this Summer it seems the ultimate revival has happened, and I can give you our raw experience as the entire company took a few hours today to watch the movie together. This outing being part of our quarterly group activity we all do together is a mixed group of young singles, married 30’s and 40’s and from every class and racial back ground imaginable.

The group verdict before heading into the movie was as you would expect.. very tentative. The group verdict when everyone walked out is just this.. Star Trek was Awesome. JJ Abrams is a God.

There you have it, from the cast and crew of the USS Versatek we watched today and cheered on the return of the gallant grew of the USS Enterprise. Its funny, its action packed, its moving (I wept a tear) and it is sexy as all hell. Take this trek on the weekend and enjoy it with your friends, family or loved ones. One thing for sure, just one viewing may very well not be enough.. I am already making plans to go again with other pals and gals.

From the USS Versatek to the rest of the world.. we hope you warp speed your butt to the movies because this is not to be missed. But if you need some Ethernet extenders or DSLAMs and modems. we are your Federation approved vendor J Have good weekend everyone. Ciao!

While there are a number of Ethernet Extenders out there that can do distances of less than 1000 feet, including our VX-VEB160R2 High Bandwidth Ethernet Extender. There is only one that can do 18,000 feet and not even blink an eye. It’s the VX-EL600 Long Range Ethernet Extender.

Originally developed by Paradyne, The Elmo Long Distance Ethernet Extender equipment is built rock solid and can do up to 6MB for distances exceeding 18000 feet even in the most extreme conditions. Copper wise this is the longest ranged point to point modem solution that can carry that kind of bandwidth. The StormPort 400 or VX-EL600 Long Distance Ethernet Extender CPE Modem uses EtherLoop technology over existing copper phone lines to provide simultaneous lifeline voice and high-speed data communications. It delivers data rates up to 6 Mbps, upstream or downstream, and overcomes issues normally found in copper loops including transient noise, crosstalk, wire gauge changes and bridged taps.

VX-EL600 Long Distance Ethernet Extender is easy to install with a simple RJ-11 plug-in connection to the phone jack. It supports multiple subtending network devices, making it an ideal solution for both single users and small work group applications.

Whether you are a farmer looking to add a connection to your house or another part of the farm, or just trying to get internet connectivity to a guard house an IP camera for a low price, the VX-EL600 Long Distance Ethernet Extender will allow you to easily be able to overcome these obstacles.

Along with the VX-EL600 Long Distance Ethernet Extender, Versa Technology also produces several other Ethernet Extenders including the VX-VEB160R2 and the VX-VLR104. Both can do up to 100Mbps symmetrical and provide the end user everything they would need. This equipment utilizes EDSL technology that is often popular with the armed services that prefer rock solid connection that is not easily affected by the environment or external changes like storms or ionization near the wiring.

It is not often tools use by us, our clients, internet service providers, network adminitrators and etc can be described as a thing of beauty. Often we stare at indutrial gray casings of media converters, Ethernet extenders or alumium and steel DSLAM chassis, with blinky LED lights (if there are any) and that is the best we can hope in terms of entertainment when the lights blink so fast enough. For a change this week instead of lauding more media converters, DSLAMs, wireless access points of Ether extenders we present you Ethernet fashion. On the lighter side here we see the creative use of Ethernet cables and what appear to  be zip ties, both tools that every network admin finds in his trusty work kit and through the creative use by these students from Panotificia Bolivariana University have managed to take something largely colorless and trendless into a neo avant garde look that screams of new Renaissance, or whatever that means.

Our engineers have gathered and we have put out an educated guess that the Ethernet cable used in the first pic should be able to be deployed at least 50,000 feet at the very least yet the manner of how it is piled up could create serious cross talk interference even though the rubber shielding seems thick hence most Ethernet extenders or Ethernet Switches, fiber media converter or wireless access point connected with these Ethernet cables, will likely see some serious packet losses with an SNR of 5 billion. Furthermore the temperatures evoked by the very hot "rack" that this cable is deployed on will likely lead to cataclysmic data failture as "hot" is very very bad for network equipment. Be that as it may, solving and unraveling a network issue like this has never been more fun or sexy we at Versa and we hope all the rest of you are up and able to meet that challenge.

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Photo via Photo via RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images.

Pardon the leet speak but VARs are an essential client base at Versa and being one is both a very lucrative and profitable enterprise. This is not just a pitch it's a reality. Value Added Resellers, or Resellers for short often gain more then just a source for their business with our products but they become full fledge business offering turn key solutions when using our products and marketing them to existing or new clientele. From Ethernet Extenders to Fiber Media Converters, DSL DSLAMs, Wireless Access Points the full range of copper and fiber wireless solutions can be had via Versa Technology, Inc.

Versa's range of Ethernet extenders, IP DSLAMs, Fiber Media Converters, switches, Power Over Ethernet devices and High Powered Wireless Access Points provide a one stop location where just about every imaginable data transport solution can be found.

VARS or Value Added Reseller come into their own during these moments. VARS that specialize in High Speed Internet Service, Telco networks are very and highly specialized. Often times the equipment can either be very easy to use and manage, or also often they can also be complicated to install, operate and maintain as many errors in installation, configuration of these last mile solutions and equipment can lead to very expensive do-overs or more trips by the installers to remedy or fix a solution.

If you are in this field you will come to realize as well, that equipment went it comes to Ethernet extenders, DSLAMs, Fiber Media Converters, E1 or T1 Multiplexers and Wireless Access points and Gateways are from a very niche. What more if you are a HSIA provider and attempting to decide which equipment works best and if you had to demo and evaluate everything in the market this endeavor would be both costly and time consuming. Enter the VARs and here they can assist albeit for equipment that are at a higher cost should you buy direct but that cost easily pays for itself when you discover the savings gained from Not deploying the wrong equipment and then having to uninstall, pull out the gear and if you are lucky you maybe able to return some of it for credit.

Versa Value Added Resellers are qualified both through a process that allows us as manufacturers of network equipment to both ensure, school and test that they indeed can support if not build for a client workable and lasting solution using our equipment. With over 14 years of manufacturing as well as deployment experience we are well schooled on how to support our clients as well as our VARS. The process always begins first to try to keep things as simple as possible and when things get hard and complicated offer solid suggestions and pre-configurations and for a finer touch VARS can enter the picture and offer a full range of services, from configuration set up, firmware updates to installation quotes and advice if needed. With both a combined cost effective solution and a valuable partner, equipment such as wireless gateways, DSLAMs, Ethernet extenders and fiber media converters have become both easy to use and one that you do not need to pay for the Brand for example, Cisco, Motorola, Nomadix and bleed out of your nose needlessly to achieve similar if not results that exceed even what they can offer.

The title is ludicrous and indeed it seems so but when we first heard it from Steve Shockman at Consolidated Smart Systems, we could not help but laugh and agree as shared good laughs over dinner. The economy has plummeted in the last year and the America that was two years ago is now near unrecognizable. Spending all across the board is down and everyone is looking for golden bullet to cut, slash and decapitate costs. Well we just so happen to have one for you if you are looking to grow the network. The VX-1000MD ADSL2+ DSLAMs that can be deployed in hours, no new wiring, and whopping range of up to 5km and speeds of 24Mb down and 3Mb up which is plenty fast for any end user no matter how you look at it.

Enter the era of Post Fiber Advanced Copper Technology championed by ADSL2+ and VDSL2 DSLAMs. The answer so simple yet apparent and constantly overlooked by ISP's and HSIA's looking to squeeze the extra margin from new installs and new client sites. No only is fiber expensive but also comes the construction cost built in, while running new fiber in a new construction is a grand idea, what about the building is 20 years old and projects managers thought we would never advance past telelphones. Even wireless often seems like the answer, well that is until you run into the plethora of problems that come with access points being stolen, unplugged or failing to connect ever frustrated wireless user, add to the known fact that any wireless install is one tech support heavy install that can rack up support call costs to a fault.

One commandment that rings true in just about any property on the face of this planet is that phone lines must exist and are ever present. Utilizing the existing phone lines and copper of a building to distribute and offer internet services is an old answer now echoing strong once more. The property owners will balk at the cost of laying fiber at their transceivers where DSL DSLAM's and DSL Modems can achieve the same at a fraction of the cost yet provide ongoing internet service that is plug and play and needs very little support should user require them. Whether in the US or in any other nation, the constant where phone wiring is available to pipe data and offer quick and easy access to people looking to gain internet service is irrefutable.

Traditional speeds of 100Mb that were dominatly allowed only to Fiber or short range Ethernet is a thing of the past, with Versa Technology's VX-MD3024 VDSL2 DSLAMs you can pipe pure bandwidths of up to 100Mb both up and downstream to users well beyond the 100 meter limitation of Ethernet and up to 2-4000 meters depending on twisted copper phone pair line quality on a voice line and not interrupt its services. Smart clients have learned to triple their gains by offering IPTV as well just by using the bandwidth of these new generations of copper DSLAMs and CPE's like the VX-1000LD 8 port ADSL2+ DSLAMS, VX-1000MD 24 ADSL2+ DSLAMS and the VX-MD3024 VDSL2 DSLAMS. Get a free consultation now from Versa Technology, Inc. on how this can be done. A FTTH deployment has an ROI of nearly 12 to 18 months; a VX-MD3024 DSLAM has an ROI of 3 to 6 months? Cash is king and the faster you can get the longer you will be around.

Pardon the loaner Mr. President, but your speech was too good not to borrow for our title. The days of paying for the brand in this shrinking economy are done. Just because DSLAM, Switches and Routers are branded with some company that overcharges you for those commercials, does not mean data gets to its destination any faster. 100Mbps is 100Mbps no matter what the model number of your switch is.

 Over the course of Versa Technology 15 year history we have met and talked to every possible tech, engineer or field specialist in the business of internet service providing and telecommunications. We have troubleshot all manner of networking headaches, from security issues to bandwidth and connectivity issues. If you work in this field you already know how hard it can be when dialing a tech support number.  When it comes to switches, modems, dslams, wireless access points, repeaters, Ethernet extenders and media converters we know what we are talking about and you won’t have to call India to figure something out. We will be there every step of the way.

 

From the tech who has never seen a 66 block and works straight out of the manual, to the worldliest telecom network engineer that has 30 years under his belt whom remembers the days when he use to throw up phone lines with spit, gum and some duct tape. We have met and talked with them all. Whether deploying DSLAMs, WAPs (Wireless Access Points), or bridging networks with Ethernet extender. Everyone wants to run to the bigger companies out of fear of the unknown not knowing a smaller company will provide you much better tech support. Smaller companies like Versa Technology care a lot more about than some bigger company that thinks it has bigger fish to fry. We treat every customer the same.

 But the Fear of the Gear exists in all of us, young and old. The flawed thinking that choosing a brand and paying the max dollar will safeguard a decision thus ultimately leading to job security is the equivalent of buying one machine gun when you need a thousand rifles. As great as that machine gun might be, can only buy so many and when it fails the lost is felt and in its vacuum you are left with nothing to fill the void or are so cash stripped you wished you had bought those rifles.

 

Great tech support aside, return on investment is what we are all here for and I guarantee if you are providing internet to customers we will figure out a way to provide you a greatest ROI quicker than anyone else. Talking to us and our coming to see us has been a life saver for many clients, embattled with rising costs of equipment and their own clients who in these times want to pay the minimum from IP DSLAMS or CPE modems, be sure to talk to your Versa contact at sales@versatek.com . Because the difference of spending $20,000 for a job that should cost you only $10,000 these days, can and could be the difference of surviving this economy in style or going down in a blaze of overly lavish spending. Be frugal yet cautious and trust in field experts who can find you equipment that works and prove it too. Get Versa and Get Connected today with solutions that work, makes sense and you can expect to save overnight with just a call or an email.

Versa Technology Ethernet Extender Kit Demonstration. This clip demonstrate the many usages and the function of the Ethernet Extender kit. The VDSL2 technology used to extend the Ethernet network over standard RJ11 phone lines. The distance of the Ethernet Extender can reach up to 4000 feet and at speed of 100MB down and 50MB up.