Cabling Installation & Maintenance Articles, April 2005
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Contents

Design

Making sense of 10- Gigabit systems

What you need to know to make an informed, intelligent decision.

Installation

Triple-play over LAN still off in the distance

It will be some time before multiple applications run over a single medium in a structured environment.

Technology

No-splice advantage boosts indoor/outdoor cabling

Once in limited supply and demand, indoor/outdoor cabling is gaining in popularity because of its time and labor-saving deployment in the campus.

Security

Distributed power-data-video for closed-circuit TV applications

Convergence of security and IT means changes in cabling infrastructure.

Industry Trends

General Cable, Panduit speed PanGen solution

General Cable and Panduit are moving full speed ahead to market their jointly developed copper and optical-fiber infrastructure solutions for open architecture.

University of Texas turns to UTP for cable TV

Unshielded twisted pair cable (UTP) is being used to deliver cable TV to 25 display systems in the Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences (ACES) building at the University of Texas in Austin.

Product Update

New Products

The latest version of NetControl Starter, designed for controlling audiovisual use over a network, now supports the EIKI NPC-1 TCP/IP network interface and more than 70 diffferent EIKI projector models...

Uncategorized

UTP connectors stake their claim in 10-Gigabit performance

A new breed of UTP connectors has emerged as vendors introduce product lines they predict will comply with yet-to-be-standardized Augmented Category 6 specifications.

Departments

Editorial

Several optical waves driving the structured cabling market

In early March, I spent a few days at the Conference on Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineering Consortium, commonly referred to by its acronyms OFC/NFOEC.

Ask Donna

Are you being coaxed into using the wrong medium for broadband?

Wouldn’t it be great if hospital rooms were cabled for high-speed Internet access and interactive television? We could use a handheld remote or wireless keyboard to access the network through the hospital room’s TV.

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