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That counterfeit cabling you installed is basically a whole-building fuse: The week's top stories

Feb. 10, 2017

Also: Passive optical LAN buffs up Atlanta Marriott Marquis room-service; CommScope files patent infringement suit against Clearfield (who is having none of it).

That counterfeit cabling you installed is basically a whole-building fuse: The week's top stories

Here are the cabling, wireless, and data center infrastructure industry's top trending news stories from the past week, as compiled by Cabling Installation & Maintenance and CablingInstall.com.

1.) Watch what happens when a counterfeit cable undergoes a burn test

It’s in everyone’s best interest that if a fire breaks out in a building, communications cables don’t act like a fuse and carry fire all over the site. The Communications Cable and Connectivity Association (CCCA) recently produced a video that includes footage of counterfeit cable being subjected to a burn test, with drastic results.

2.) Oracle chief says corporate DCs are toast

Make that with a side of tasty Cat 6 rack dressing.

The cavernous atrium at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis 'is spectacular to see' according to Tellabs CEO Mike Dagenais, but provided quite an architectural challenge when the hotel had a passive optical LAN installed to provide fiber-to-the-room.

3.) Passive optical LAN allows Atlanta Marriott Marquis hotel to provide fiber-to-the-room

Tellabs, along with solutions integrator VT Group, recently announced the completion of a passive optical LAN (POL) installation at the 52-story Atlanta Marriott Marquis hotel.

4.) CommScope files patent infringement suit against fiber-optic connectivity manufacturer Clearfield

In response, Clearfield stated that it "intends to vigorously defend against the patent infringement suit ... Clearfield invested significant resources in bringing to market [all product lines] named in the suit, and does not believe that these innovative products violate any valid intellectual property of CommScope."

This illustration is taken from the newly released document 'Zone Cabling and Coverage Area Planning Guide: 60W PoE Lighting Applications' from Siemon. The illustration indicates, and the guide details, how a zone cabling system is well-suited to serve the infrastructure needs of a PoE lighting system. — This illustration is taken from the newly released document "Zone Cabling and Coverage Area Planning Guide: 60W PoE Lighting Applications" from Siemon. The illustration indicates, and the guide details, how a zone cabling system is well-suited to serve the infrastructure needs of a PoE lighting system.

5.) Guide helps designers of cabling systems for 60W PoE lighting applications

Siemon recently made available the document “Zone Cabling and Coverage Area Planning Guide: 60W PoE Lighting Applications.” The company says it produced the document “to provide guidance to infrastructure designers on the selection, design and deployment of a structured cabling system optimized to support a wide range of Power over Ethernet (PoE) lighting applications.”

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