Cabling Standards: Cabling Installation and Maintenance

Explaining cable standards as well as the specifications governing network transmission protocols, this topic center covers ground ranging from IEEE 802.3 Ethernet specs to the TIA 568 series and other cabling standards from the Telecommunications Industry Association.

International energy experts to convene at first IEEE Smart Grid conference (Aug 13, 2010)

To be held October 4 - 6 in Gaithersburg, Maryland, SmartGridComm will host more than 100 presentations dedicated to the latest results in Smart Grid communications.

New TIA cabling standard covers healthcare facilities (Aug 13, 2010)

TIA-1179, for hospitals and clinics, drastically redefines the work area.

Ethernet Alliance appoints Aquantia exec as Energy Efficient Ethernet marketing chair (Aug 10, 2010)

The Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) subcommittee of the Ethernet Alliance has elected Kamal Dalmia, Aquantia's vice president of sales and marketing, as its next EEE marketing chair.

HomePlug boosts AV2 spec (Jul 29, 2010)

The AV2 specification will be fully interoperable with current HomePlug AV and future HomePlug Green PHY and IEEE 1901 products.

BICSI Andean area reaches membership milestone (Jul 10, 2010)

With more than 100 active members the geographic area is now recognized as a district.

IEEE offering PoE Plus standard for free (Jul 8, 2010)

Published in October 2009, the specifications extend the power-delivery capabilities of PoE to 30 watts.

ADC touts fiber-optic platform's compliance with 802.3ba (Jun 25, 2010)

The company notes that it participated in the industry task force that drove the new IEEE standard supporting both 100 Gbps and 40 Gbps Ethernet speeds.

BICSI releases data center design standard (Jun 24, 2010)

Association's president calls it 'the ultimate standard for anyone working in the data center arena.'

IEEE ratifies 40-, 100- Gigabit Ethernet standard (Jun 21, 2010)

IEEE 802.3ba specifies a single architecture capable of supporting both 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE) and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE), along with physical layer specifications.

Major features approved for Broadband over Powerline spec (Jun 14, 2010)

The IEEE says its Boston meeting resolved all outstanding comments and unites powerline industry behind the IEEE 1901 specification.

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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...

Is a TIA Cat 7 standard on the horizon?

A source with connections to the Telecommunications Industry Association's TR-42 Engineering Committee says that sometime next year, the group may take up an issue it has long tabled - the development of specifications for Category 7 twisted-pair cabling...

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Cxtec's Peter Belyea talks about 40G/100G circuits and what they'll mean for the data center.; 100G; 40G; data center; ethernet; Berk-Tek's Carol Everett Oliver discusses the benefits of PoE+ technology.; Berk-Tek; BICSI Winter Conference; PoE Plus; PoE+; Power over Ethernet Plus; OFS's John George discusses products that reduce labor costs in access networks, and shares his company's position on delay skew in 40- and 100-Gig networking.; acces networks; Cabling Installation & Maintenance; delay skew; FTTx; John George; OFS; Todd Duberstein, product manager, discusses some of the latest media-conversion technology for enterprise and industrial environments.; Industrial Networks; Media Converstion; Transition Networks; Fiber Optics LAN Section (FOLS) Chair Rodney Casteel talks about the group's new Affiliate Membership Program.; Cabling Installation & Maintenance; fiber optics; FOLS; Matt Vincent; Rodney Casteel; TR-42.7 Chair Valerie Maguire explains how close the Cat 6A standard is to ratification.; cabling; Information from John Pryma about the TIA-570-B specifications and BICSI's new residential manuals.; cabling; Todd Fries discusses a new addendum to the 606-A labeling standard as well as work on the forthcoming 606-B specifications.; "IEEE 802.3at PoE Plus Operating Efficiency: How to Keep a Hot Application Running Cool" - Part 1 ; BICSI; BICSI Fall Conference; Cabling Installation & Maintenance; IEEE 802.3at; PoE Plus; Power over Ethernet; Siemon; Valerie Maguire; Valerie Rybinski; "IEEE 802.3at PoE Plus Operating Efficiency: How to Keep a Hot Application Running Cool" - Part 2 ; BICSI; BICSI Fall Conference; Cabling Installation & Maintenance; IEEE 802.3at; PoE Plus; Power over Ethernet; Siemon; Valerie Maguire; Valerie Rybinski; "IEEE 802.3at PoE Plus Operating Efficiency: How to Keep a Hot Application Running Cool" - Part 3 ; BICSI; BICSI Fall Conference; Cabling Installation & Maintenance; IEEE 802.3at; PoE Plus; Power over Ethernet; Siemon; Valerie Maguire; Valerie Rybinski; From the seminar, "Future Trends in Energy Efficient Data Center Design," presented by ADC.; ADC; data center; green data center; From the seminar, "Future Trends in Energy Efficient Data Center Design," presented by ADC.; ADC; data center; green data center; From the seminar, "Future Trends in Energy Efficient Data Center Design," presented by ADC.; ADC; data center; green data center; TIA releases 568-C.0, C.1 communications standards; Commscope upgrades Systimax 360 platform; and Anixter's data center seminars hit the silver screen. ;

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