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Researcher: Health care leads cabling market (Mar 11, 2010)

Other verticals including state government, retail, professional technical services, and manufacturing will combine to account for more than half the market spend this year.

Cabling standards group elects chair, vice-chair, committee heads (Feb 26, 2010)

Bob Jensen and Valerie Maguire will serve two-year terms as chair and vice-chair, respectively, of TIA's TR-42 Engineering Committee.

Web seminar discusses latest TIA standards (Feb 19, 2010)

Hosted by the TIA Fiber Optics LAN Section, the seminar will cover copper as well as fiber cabling.

TIA FOLS elects 2010 officers (Feb 19, 2010)

The Fiber Optics LAN Section (FOLS) of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) has elected its slate of officers for 2010.

IEEE announces 'Global Standards at IEEE' seminar (Feb 16, 2010)

IEEE announced that it will be hosting a Global Standards at IEEE seminar in Bangalore, India, on 9 March 2010.

Cabling Standards Products
Versa Technology unveils Gigabit Power over Ethernet injector (Feb 25, 2010)

Versa Technology introduced the VX-Pi1000Gb PoE Injector, an IEEE-compliant 802.3af Power Over Ethernet  Injector which provides DC 48V over Ethernet cables.

AIS releases PoE touchscreen panel PC for Green building, control applications (Jan 12, 2010)

American Industrial Systems, Inc. (AIS) has unveiled its 10.1” Power over Ethernet (PoE) Touchscreen Panel PC, which is powered by the Intel Atom Z530 processor for ultra-low power consumption.

Microsemi develops PoE midspans with integrated lightning protection (Oct 21, 2009)

The PowerDsine 9001G-40/SP is a high-power Gigabit midspan that enables outdoor networking devices including security cameras and wireless LAN access points.

BICSI releases 12th edition of TDMM (Sep 23, 2009)
The latest edition includes new information on data centers, network security, and network design. It remains the basis for the RCDD exam, and now for the RITP exam as well.
Belden expands Fieldbus line (Sep 18, 2009)
Belden announced added temperature and use ratings, and expanded multi-pair capabilities to its line of low capacitance DataBus cables for Foundation Fieldbus applications.
The Cabling Blog
Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
by Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent

Copper connectors putting Large Hadron Collider out of commission

Are you familiar with the Large Hadron Collider? I knew nothing about it until I read Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. Then it started popping up in the news all the time, so it seemed. The LHC -- I don't know if that's its real abbreviation or not -- is a...

You aren't planning to abandon that cable, are you Uncle Sam?

Government Computer News (GCN) is reporting that cabling-integration firm Automated Systems Design (ASD) was contracted to install the cabling for some 500 temporary offices for the Census Bureau as that government entity ramped up for its data-collection...

TIA TR-42 subcommittee elections bring new names to the fore

While posting to our Web site the news about the recent election of new chairs and vice-chairs for TR-42 and several of its subcommittees, I was reminded of a conversation I had several years ago with an executive of the training organization BICSI.It was...

Cabling Standards Videos
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... challenge of getting IT systems into building specifications early in the process, and says the forthcoming health care environment cabling standard is an ...

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