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The Cabling Blog
Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
by Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent

CWA likes what it hears from President Obama during State of the Union

On Tuesday, January 24, as President Barack Obama wrapped up his State of the Union address, the Communications Workers of America issued a statement praising the president "for his focus on creating an America that is built to last with an economy that...

FOA says, 'We have your standard right here ... on one page'

In its January 2012 online newsletter, The Fiber Optic Association stated that it is starting a program "to make standards more accessible to the world of users, contractors, designers and installers." Specifically, the association is creating one-page...

Video demonstrates how to test patch cords for standard compliance

In a five-minute video posted to YouTube, Adrian Young, senior technical support engineer with Fluke Networks, demonstrates the procedures for using the company's Category 5e, 6 and 6A patch-cord adapters with the DTX-1800 CableAnalyzer.In the video Young...

Editorial Guides
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CI&M Editorial Guide: Structured Cabling Systems for Healthcare Environments
Cultural, regulatory and technological forces have made healthcare a leading-edge industry with respect to information technology systems.  From HIPPA and electronic ...
Sponsored By:  NetClear
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CI&M Editorial Guide: Considerations for Selecting and Using Multimode Fiber
A network manager’s choice to use multimode fiber-optic cable does not end the decision-making process. Next come considerations including cablingsystem architecture, ...
Sponsored By:  OFS
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From the Pages of CI&M Magazine

Forecasts are cloudy in a good way - Cabling Installation & ...
... “In terms of copper and fiber structured cabling in data centers, these six countries make up close to 70 percent of the data center worldwide structured ...

Editor's Picks - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... Peter E. Belyea, said, “Not only does it immediately improve data center performance, but it also futureproofs our customers’ data centers through multiple ...

Moving toward 40-Gbit/sec twisted-pair cabling - Cabling ...
... The cost of power is a primary driver for data-center consolidation strategies as seen in the proliferation of data centers in regions with low electricity ...

Data center drives full recovery - Cabling Installation & ...
... plant fiber-optic cables through diverse paths to the new offsite data center. ... Cisco Nexus network switching gear that large hosting data centers and central ...

Cable type and placement affect network efficiency - Cabling ...
... February 2007) we quoted Siemon’s global director for data center solutions and services, Carrie Higbie, as follows: “In many data centers, the cabling is ...

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