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August 2010
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The problem with many, if not most, fiber installations is the raw speed with which companies demand these installations to be performed. In many instances, repairs ...
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Field Testing Installed Optical Fiber Cabling
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40/100 Gigabit Ethernet: Understanding the next generation of network technology
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Best Practices for Tier 2 Fiber Certification
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Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
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Another materials supplier raises prices for cable manufacturers

Today Dow Wire and Cable announced price increases on several cable-manufacturing compounds. The increases will take effect October 1 and affect Dow's customers in North and South America.Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE) based specialty compounds,...

FEP supply situation - Let's blame China

For several years China's ravenous consumption rate of just about everything has made an impact on supply-and-demand levels of, well, just about everything. In the past we have reported about the price of copper being affected by China's consumption of...

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CIM Editorial Guide: Cable Management for High-Speed, High-Density Cabling
The evolution of high-speed networking systems, particularly in the data center, have required corresponding evolution in the network’s physical layer cabling ...
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CIM Editorial Guide: High-Performance Copper Cabling Systems for Data Centers
Today’s best-in-class copper cabling systems claim the bandwidth capacity to handle 10-Gbit/sec data transmission. With the need for speed keeping pace with ...
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