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Black Box's 45 deg angled-port patch panels receive Cabling Business award of excellence (Mar 10, 2010)

The Black Box SpaceGAIN CAT5e and CAT6 patch panels feature connectors that tilt down at a 45-degree angle to make patching easier.
comCables names new director of sales, manufacturing (Mar 3, 2010)

comCables (Denver,CO) announced the addition of Tom McAllister as director of sales, manufacturing.
SMC, NYCE, Firecomms form POF networking partnership (Feb 17, 2010)

SMC, in partnership with NYCE, has launched the SMCEPM-2, a fiber-to-Ethernet media converter switch incorporating Firecomms' POF technologies.
Optical Cable Corporation patents keyed modular connection system (Jan 19, 2010)

Optical Cable Corporation (OCC)bannounced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued patent No. 7,594,829 for a keyed modular connection system and associated adapter cable. This is the second patent issued for the company's "Limited Axcess" system.
CABLExpress enhances Skinny-Trunk fiber optic MTP connector to reduce insertion loss (Jan 18, 2010)

CABLExpress has upgraded its Skinny-Trunk 12 fiber optic MTP (Multifiber Termination Push-on) connector with a high-precision thermoplastic ferrule designed to lower insertion loss by up to 40%.
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Connectivity Technologies Products
comCables intros proprietary patch panel line (Mar 1, 2010)

comCables (Denver, CO) announced the full release of its Crescendo patch panel line
Fiber connectors compatible with VFL (Feb 9, 2010)

Technicians can now use a visual fault locator to test continuity on the SC and LC styles of Leviton's FastCAM connectors.
Tyco Electronics receptacle doubles standard RJ-45 Ethernet port density (Feb 8, 2010)

From Tyco Electronics, the RJ Point Five connector system doubles the port density of a standard RJ-45 Ethernet link while maintaining field termination capability.
Sealed, lightweight military connectors can be cleaned thousands of times (Feb 4, 2010)

Also appropriate for medical environments, the Nemesis SC can withstand 10,000 mating cycles and 2,500 cleans.
Self-terminating Cat 6A FTP jacks (Feb 3, 2010)

The tool-less design allows technicians to terminate all four pairs simultaneously.
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The Cabling Blog
Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
by Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent

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...

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...

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