Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In our penultimate episode of Beyond Bandwidth season 3, guest host Todd Harpel meets with Jim Davis, a Sr. Product Applications Specialist at Fluke Networks, to discuss the ins and outs of testing extended distance solutions. Harpel and Davis dig into:

● What qualifies as accepted results when testing a link for final qualification, and the installers’ experience with extended distance testing
● Evaluating PoE capabilities over extended distance, and the tests used to verify efficacy
● How extended distance tests vary from standard TIA-based testing, and the variety of test settings used in different scenarios and regions