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Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
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Cable-recycling firm fined after workers suffer lead poisoning

An Edmonton, UK-based firm that recycles cable pleaded guilty to exposing workers to lead and has to pay approximately £75,000 in fines and costs. The government agency Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigated the recycler and described "an abysmal...

Elderly cable thieves shut down 46 oil wells in China

The next time you fill up your vehicle with fuel and are exasperated by the price per gallon, don't blame the big oil companies. Don't blame President Obama's stance on the Keystone Pipeline. Instead, blame two elderly Chinese men.The Shanghai Daily has...

NASA details International Space Station cabling installation

How many times have you heard someone joke that the job of routing and installing cabling is "not rocket science"? Well, recently it was part of rocket science when a NASA commander routed and installed several new cables aboard the International Space...

Connectivity Technologies 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;


From the Pages of CI&M Magazine

Prospects for all-optical cabling in data centers and enterprises ...
... that during the composite channels’ development, they may not be connected directly without intermediate active equipment, such as a media converter or more ...

Solarflare exits 10GBase-T physical-layer business - Cabling ...
... Fiber-to-fiber 10GbE media converters. Transition Networks recently introduced 10-Gbit Ethernet fiber-to-fiber media converters. ...

Extending PoE long distances for safety's sake - Cabling ...
... "One of the biggest advantages of this system is that unlike typical media converters, the device-end media converter does not require separate power ...

Editor's Picks - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... port. The remote PoE port is a passive media converter that converts the cable assembly to an RJ-45, IEEE 802.3af-compliant output. ...

Editor's Picks - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... This may include in-segment equipment, media converters and patch cords as required to complete the circuit’s transmission path to the edge customer premises ...

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