Austin Taylor Communications, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JCS), announced today that it will join forces with Suttle, Inc., another CSI subsidiary; located in Bethesda, Wales, United Kingdom. Austin Taylor Communications is a highly respected manufacturer of telecommunication products designed primarily to British standards with over 60 years of experience. The integration into Suttle will help Austin Taylor better serve an increasingly international customer base with a more diverse product offering and deeper development of relationships with customers in the United Kingdom and across Europe. Austin Taylor Communications’ product lines will be available immediately under the “Austin Taylor by Suttle” brand name. Read the rest of this entry »
Austin Taylor to Join Forces with Suttle
September 7th, 2011Video Product Line Reduction Sale
April 11th, 2011As a result of the continuing success and progress of our overall solutions, Suttle will be restructuring its video offering effective immediately. We will continue to support some video components moving forward, however many others will be liquidated and discontinued.
See our Liquidation Flier for pricing on those discontinued products (many of the connectors are listed by individual price, but are sold by the bag). Keep in mind they are available in limited quantities and are no-longer valid once their stock is depleted.
Suttle is still committed to provide excellent quality and performing products on our remaining line items. If there happens to be an item that is no longer supported after the sale we will be more then happy to recommend a comparable product of high quality and performance from an alternate vendor that we know and trust.
Suttle to be Featured in April on the Hometime TV Series
March 25th, 2011Hometime, a home improvement show hosted by Dean Johnson, has been on the air for 24 seasons and in syndication for nine years. Hometime is known for helping homeowners achieve professional-looking results on their home improvement projects.
Recently, Suttle was featured with their line of SOHO Access™ structured wiring enclosures and modules along with their line of SpeedStar™ connectors and faceplates on an upcoming episode of Hometime. The episode (Stone Cottage 29: Carpet) set to air in April 2011, is the third time Suttle has been fortunate enough to appear on the program. The system that was installed distributes the home’s basic voice, data, and video networks and demonstrated the versatility of Suttle’s structured wiring products. These products offer a flexible and aesthetically pleasing way to organize a large number of connections in a small amount of space.
For air dates and times, visit Hometime’s “station finder” at www.hometime.com and check for local station listings. To see clips of Suttle’s previous appearances on Hometime visit www.suttleonline.com/video and click on the Hometime tab.
Suttle Hometime Clips:
April 2011 Appearance
February 2008 Appearance
April 2007 Appearance
What is Ring Trip Mitigation?
February 28th, 2011The interaction of telephony and video signaling places special demands on VDSL2 splitters. When a telephone is “off-hook,” the battery at the central office provides -48VDC over the phone line. When the phone is ringing, peak ring voltage is 127 volts. If the subscriber answers the phone (a condition called “ring trip”) at the negative peak of the voltage cycle, the instantaneous voltage (a combined -48VDC from the CO battery and -127 from the ringer) adds up to -175 volts. When this happens, an ordinary splitter can allow high-voltage, high-frequency transients to enter and interfere with the VDSL2 spectrum. This, in turn, can cause corruption or loss of data packets and interference with video signals.
The problem is not too significant in the case of data since TCP/IP can request packet retransmission. Video, on the other hand, is a streaming service and does not allow for retransmission. In order to provide uninterrupted video service and compete with video services on cable, the service provider must use high quality video-grade VDSL2 splitters. These splitters work with the DSL chipset to reduce or eliminate problematic ring trip effects. Appropriate splitters must be configured at the CO and in the network interface device at the customer premise.
See more VDSL2 considerations in our free whitepaper.
