Connectivity: Cabling Installation and Maintenance
Connectivity

The connector technology being deployed in cabling networks continues to evolve. The nearly ubiquitous RJ45 may look like it always has, but the technology inside it has evolved to support data rates up to 10 Gbits/sec. Shielded and non-RJ45 copper interfaces are capable of even higher transmission. Meanwhile, there is no single fiber connector interface but rather dozens, although the LC connector and the MPO connector have become popular for high density fiber applications. We cover it all here.


The Cabling Blog
Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
by Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent

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...

Editorial Guides
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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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Connectivity Videos
Todd Duberstein, product manager, discusses some of the latest media-conversion technology for enterprise and industrial environments.; Industrial Networks; Media Converstion; Transition Networks; 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; ADC's Kim Hartwell describes products and technologies for MDU environments at NxtComm 2008.; ADC; Cabling Installation & Maintenance; Kim Hartwell; MDU; Nxtcomm; "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; Belden's Denis Blouin discusses his company's optimized data center solutions.; Belden; data center; Belden's Stephane Bourgeois talks about challenges for implementing data center structured cabling technology in 2009.; Belden; data center; structured cabling; Zach Sherman of Transition Networks discusses the device outlook for the imminent PoE Plus standard.; PoE Plus; PoE+; Transition Networks; Berk-Tek's Carol Everett Oliver discusses the benefits of PoE+ technology.; Berk-Tek; BICSI Winter Conference; PoE Plus; PoE+; Power over Ethernet Plus; Corning Cable Systems' LAN market manager Marcus Sullivan demos a quick, efficient method for fiber termination.; Corning Cable Systems; Corning Unicam Pretium; fiber termination; Siemon's Charlie Maynard demos the company's Xcelerate fiber termination technology.; fiber termination; Siemon; Siemon's David Valentukonis demos the company's Z-Max twisted pair cabling technology.; Siemon; twisted pair cabling; Z-Max; Wrap-up of the BICSI Spring Conference; news from Berk-Tek and Arista Networks.; Arista Networks; Berk-Tek; BICSI;


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