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Siemon boasts zero-landfill headquarters, manufacturing (Oct 30, 2009)

The Watertown, CT corporate headquarters and U.S. manufacturing facility recycles, reuses, or repurposes more than 99 percent of its waste material.

TZ, Anixter launch cabinet-level access control security system (Sep 16, 2009)
Anixter Inc. and Telezygology Inc. (TZ) have jointly released the TZ Praetorian cabinet locking system, which delivers electronic access control with audit trail capability to data center cabinets. Jointly developed by Anixter's Infrastructure Solutions Lab and TZ, the system is designed to easily integrate with existing enterprise access control systems and structured cabling infrastructure, bridging the gap between physical security systems already in place.
rj45 UTP and Shielded Connectors Products
Tyco Electronics receptacle doubles standard RJ-45 Ethernet port density (Feb 8, 2010)

From Tyco Electronics, the RJ Point Five connector system doubles the port density of a standard RJ-45 Ethernet link while maintaining field termination capability.

Sealed, lightweight military connectors can be cleaned thousands of times (Feb 4, 2010)

Also appropriate for medical environments, the Nemesis SC can withstand 10,000 mating cycles and 2,500 cleans.

Self-terminating Cat 6A FTP jacks (Feb 3, 2010)

The tool-less design allows technicians to terminate all four pairs simultaneously.

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...

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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. ...

Examining shielded-cabling for ultra-high-speed transmission ...
... Shielded twisted-pair cable in any construction—F/UTP with a single foil over the four twisted pairs, S/FTP with a braided shield over four wire pairs that ...

New Products - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... The OmniConverter GPoE/S media converter is a 10/100/1000 UTP to 100Base-FX or 1000Base-X fiber multi-port media converter; according to the manufacturer, it ...

Optimizing Ethernet systems in manufacturing plants - Cabling ...
... Industrial-grade connectivity components, such as IP67- or IP20-rated UTP or STP patch cords, connectors, modular jack-and-plug kits, adapters, faceplates, and ...

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