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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...

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. ;
From the Pages of CI&M Magazine

Examining shielded-cabling for ultra-high-speed transmission ...
... Currently the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ IEEE P802.3ba Task Force (www.ieee802.org/3/ba/) is developing Ethernet protocols with ...

New Products - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... 100Base-FX or 1000Base-X fiber multi-port media converter; according to the manufacturer, it is the first such device on the market to support the IEEE 802.3 ...

Optimizing Ethernet systems in manufacturing plants - Cabling ...
... offices. Both are built on the same standards-based networking platform, the Ethernet local area network (LAN) standard IEEE 802.3. ...

More than 10-Gig on twisted pair? - Cabling Installation & ...
... One of the panelists accurately pointed out that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.3ba specifications covering 40- and 100-Gbit ...

New Prodcuts - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... and cabling. The book’s annex details pertinent standards and application guidelines, such as EN, IEEE, IEC, UL, and HD/VDE. The ...




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