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Patch Panels Articles & News
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.

Patch Panels Products
comCables intros proprietary patch panel line (Mar 1, 2010)

comCables (Denver, CO) announced the full release of its Crescendo patch panel line

Angled patch panels for shielded, unshielded Cat 6A (Jan 8, 2010)

The panel is designed to facilitate high-density patch cord routing without the need for additional rack-mount cable management.

Armored fiber-optic patch cords meant for harsh environments (Dec 30, 2009)

The custom-made cords are available with singlemode or multimode fiber, in lengths up to 500 feet, with a variety of connector options.

Siemon offers 48-port Z-Max Cat 6A patch panel (Oct 15, 2009)

The 48-port 1U patch panels meet or exceed all 10GBASE-T and category 6A/class EA performance requirements, including those for alien crosstalk.

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Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
by Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent

Copper connectors putting Large Hadron Collider out of commission

Are you familiar with the Large Hadron Collider? I knew nothing about it until I read Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. Then it started popping up in the news all the time, so it seemed. The LHC -- I don't know if that's its real abbreviation or not -- is a...

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...

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... multimode fiber-optic cabling, and about 200,000 feet of the 10GX unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cabling, as well as approximately 30 10GX patch panels, some ...

New Products - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... s VersaPOD Data Center Cabinet Solution mount between the VersaPOD cabinet’s corner posts and side panels, allowing four standard 1U patch panels or fiber ...

Inspection a critical piece of fiber-plant testing - Cabling ...
... test kit. When connecting cables at patch panels, use the visual tracer to make sure each connection is the correct two fibers. To ...

New Prodcuts - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... The Z-Max 6A panel outlet is central to the patch panel’s performance in ... The patch panels also feature the company’s modular Quick-Snap panel design, which ...

Supermarket chain shops for high bandwidth - Cabling Installation ...
... Berk-Tek’s LANmark-1000 Category 6 cable was terminated into Ortronics’ Clarity6 48-port patch panels located on two of the three racks. ...

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