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Media Converters Articles & News
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.

Report: Media converter market for private enterprises to reach $3B (Dec 28, 2009)

ElectroniCast Consultants says in the period 2008-2013, strongly rising quantity growth will be partially offset by declining average prices.

Media Converters Products
IMC Networks announces iMcV-Switch with SFP fiber options (Jan 28, 2010)

IMC Networks, a manufacturer of optical access and media conversion solutions for LAN, MAN, and FTTx applications, has announced three new Ethernet-based copper/fiber switch modules, expanding its iMcV-Switch family of products.

MRV debuts multi-function Gigabit/Fast Ethernet media converter (Dec 28, 2009)

MRV Communications, Inc. has introduced its Fiber Driver EM316GSW-XY, a Gigabit/Fast Ethernet multi-function media converter, as the latest addition to the company’s XY family of next-generation optical media converters.

Omnitron launches Power over Ethernet Gigabit media converter (Nov 13, 2009)

The company claims the product is the first media converter to provide PoE+ power.

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

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...

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;


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New Products - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
New Products. Dec 1, 2009. Gig-speed PoE media converter. The OmniConverter GPoE/S media converter is a 10/100/1000 UTP to 100Base-FX ...

Media converters for changing technologies - Cabling Installation ...
... local area network (VLAN) tech-nology are driving some of today's media converter use. “We're putting VLAN technologies intoour media converters; I call it ...

New Products - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... PSI-MOS 1300 series of singlemode fiber-optic media converter modules for ... The media converters have local LED diagnosticsfor fiber-optic cable connection and ...

Cabling Cowboys Stadium: A five-star facility, Texas style ...
... the road. Later, the Cowboys called us looking for a media converter, and the relationship went from there.”. Team representatives ...

From the last 100 meters to the first mile - Cabling Installation ...
... used by the enterprise. “The NID is thought about tradi- tionally as a media converter,” Goldberg says. “But the device has ...

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