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Legrand-Ortronics attains ISO 14001 environmental certification (Jan 18, 2010)

The company announced announced that it has furthered its commitment to the protection of the environment through ISO 14001 Certification at its New London, CT corporate office.

Harting publishes Industrial Ethernet handbook (Oct 13, 2009)

The 5-chapter, 168-page manual covers the technical details of Ethernet, comparing it to other fieldbus systems, and explaining its Open System Interconnection (ISO/OSI) Reference Model.

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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...

Cisco announces 10GBase-T switches

Cisco Systems is now in the 10GBase-T business. On Monday, Februray 8, the switching-technology market leader joined server-technology provider Intel in announcing support for the twisted-pair flavor of 10-Gbit Ethernet within Cisco's Catalyst switch...

It's your turn (to blog for us)

True confession: As a teenager I watched ... no, not only did I watch, I enjoyed, some of the worst movies ever created. Gory, B-rate (at best) horror movies were my favorites. Like most who have witnessed these abominations of cinema, I saw them much...

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