About Cabling Installation & Maintenance

Our mission: Bringing practical business and technical intelligence to today's structured cabling professionals

For more than 30 years, Cabling Installation & Maintenance has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Our editors synthesize these complex issues into multiple information products. This portfolio of information products provides concrete detail that improves the efficiency of day-to-day operations, and equips cabling professionals with the perspective that enables strategic planning for networks’ optimum long-term performance.

Throughout our annual magazine, weekly email newsletters and 24/7/365 website, Cabling Installation & Maintenance digs into the essential topics our audience focuses on.

  • Design, Installation and Testing: We explain the bottom-up design of cabling systems, from case histories of actual projects to solutions for specific problems or aspects of the design process. We also look at specific installations using a case-history approach to highlight challenging problems, solutions and unique features. Additionally, we examine evolving test-and-measurement technologies and techniques designed to address the standards-governed and practical-use performance requirements of cabling systems.
  • Technology: We evaluate product innovations and technology trends as they impact a particular product class through interviews with manufacturers, installers and users, as well as contributed articles from subject-matter experts.
  • Data Center: Cabling Installation & Maintenance takes an in-depth look at design and installation workmanship issues as well as the unique technology being deployed specifically for data centers.
  • Physical Security: Focusing on the areas in which security and IT—and the infrastructure for both—interlock and overlap, we pay specific attention to Internet Protocol’s influence over the development of security applications.
  • Standards: Tracking the activities of North American and international standards-making organizations, we provide updates on specifications that are in-progress, looking forward to how they will affect cabling-system design and installation. We also produce articles explaining the practical aspects of designing and installing cabling systems in accordance with the specifications of established standards.

Cabling Installation & Maintenance is published by Endeavor Business Media, a division of EndeavorB2B.

Contact Cabling Installation & Maintenance

Editorial

Patrick McLaughlin

Serena Aburahma

Advertising and Sponsorship Sales

Peter Fretty - Vice President, Market Leader

Tim Carli - Business Development Manager

Brayden Hudspeth - Sales Development Representative

Subscriptions and Memberships

Subscribe to our newsletters and manage your subscriptions

Feedback/Problems

Send a message to our general in-box

 

Florida Ignoring Cost-Effective Firearms Training Reforms While Approving Expensive Drone Programs

Florida Ignoring Cost-Effective Firearms Training Reforms While Approving Expensive Drone Programs
Simple, Life-Saving Firearms Reforms Stalled While Millions Spent on Drones
Valortec has proposed low-cost reforms to Florida’s firearms training—stricter passing scores, realistic target spacing, licensed instructors, and mandatory English instruction—to better prepare for active shooter threats. Despite the urgency, the state has ignored the proposal while funding expensive drone testing.

Valortec, a leading firearms training academy based in Orlando, has proposed straightforward, low-cost reforms to Florida’s firearms licensing standards that would directly improve public safety and active shooter response. Yet, the state has not acted.

Instead, Florida has approved millions of dollars in drone technology testing—an initiative far more expensive and less immediately impactful than simply fixing the deficiencies in firearms training already required by law.

Key Reforms Proposed

Valortec’s recommendations include:

  • Spacing targets in proficiency tests to reflect real-world threat engagement.

  • Raising passing scores to ensure shooters can perform under stress.

  • Requiring licensed instructors for all civilian self-defense training.

  • Mandating English instruction for Class D and G training to avoid life-threatening miscommunication.


“These are practical, affordable changes that could be implemented tomorrow,” said Herfel Torres, Valortec Co-Owner and Master Instructor. “Yet while lives are at risk, Florida has chosen to fund drone projects instead of fixing the basic training failures that affect every licensed armed professional in the state.”

Silence from Tallahassee

The proposal was submitted formally to FDACS Commissioner Wilton Simpson in January 2024. Nearly a year later, no response has been issued.

Attorney Alexander Penalta, who authored the submission, added: “Every day of inaction leaves the public exposed. Florida found money for drones, but refuses to even answer a proposal that costs virtually nothing to implement and directly saves lives.”

Media Contact
Company Name: Valortec
Contact Person: Herfel Torres
Email: Send Email
Phone: 4076983396
Address:390 N Orange Ave #2300
City: Orlando
State: FL
Country: United States
Website: https://valortec.com/

Stock Quote API & Stock News API supplied by www.cloudquote.io
Quotes delayed at least 20 minutes.
By accessing this page, you agree to the following
Privacy Policy and Terms Of Service.