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Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
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Guest Blog: Master Format 2010 - What's new?

by Felix ZayasJuly 28, 2010In the telecommunications field the term "MasterFormat" can be somewhat of a convoluted term. For the next 350 words or so I will go through the finer details of MasterFormat and how it relates to telecommunications.MasterFormat...

Tweet this: New data center for Twitter is overdue

Twitter announced on its Engineering Blog that later this year it will open its own dedicated data center in the Salt Lake City area. The microblogger's Jean Paul Cozzatti said in his post that the dedicated data center will allow Twitter to "have full...

Legal investigation underway in Tyco's ADC acquisition

Several law firms are taking a look at the Tyco Electronics acquisition of ADC for approximately $1.25 billion to determine whether or not ADC's board accepted an offer from Tyco that represents the best value for shareholders. Such investigations are not...

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From the Pages of CI&M Magazine

Editor's Picks - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... With integrated RJ-45 UTP/STP and coaxial interfaces as well as Profinet-formatted results, the tester is specifically designed for Ethernet cabling systems ...

Optical solutions for the collocation data center - Cabling ...
... energy-savings chart, as port count increases in the data center, there is significant energy savings in using a fiber-based solution over a UTP-based solution ...

North America notwithstanding, shielded cabling adoption rates ...
... overall premises cable shipments. Concerns remain about the cost and installation compared to UTP cable.”. Weiland points out that ...

Cabling for high technology in a high-efficiency green building ...
... feet of Belden’s FiberExpress singlemode and multimode fiber-optic cabling, and about 200,000 feet of the 10GX unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cabling, as well ...

Copper cabling to remain structured cabling market leader ...
... Early unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) copper cabling satisfied this requirement. ... It appears as if UTP copper cabling has finally succumbed to fiber cabling. ...

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