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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...

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From the Pages of CI&M Magazine

Solid standard, right tools turn cable IDs into marks of ...
... easily line up identifiers under each port in a patch panel, thereby eliminating ... Templates that are predesigned to work with major manufacturer patch panels. ...

Editor's Picks - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... Solutions’ complete Category 6A shielded system, which also includes patch cords and patch panels. ... a splice area on the left side and a patch panel on the ...

How to meet today?s challenges in testing enterprise fiber ...
... To reduce clutter and improve equipment access, patch panels with short patch cords are usually employed to connect server, storage and networking assets. ...

ANSI/TIA-606-B standard approved for publication - Cabling ...
... The user is able to name the horizontal and vertical patch panels by rack unit. The rack unit of the vertical patch panel is determined by the rack-unit ...

Intelligent management goes beyond the physical layer - Cabling ...
... millennium, the concept typically was referred to as “intelligent patching” because the primary everyday products involved were the patch panel and patch ...




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