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Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
by Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent

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...

Editorial Guides
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CIM Editorial Guide: Cable Management for High-Speed, High-Density Cabling
The evolution of high-speed networking systems, particularly in the data center, have required corresponding evolution in the network’s physical layer cabling ...
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CIM Editorial Guide: High-Performance Copper Cabling Systems for Data Centers
Today’s best-in-class copper cabling systems claim the bandwidth capacity to handle 10-Gbit/sec data transmission. With the need for speed keeping pace with ...
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Data Center Videos
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From the Pages of CI&M Magazine

Technologies for measuring power at the device level - Cabling ...
... the main distribution panel feeding all cooling equipment. ... from the distribution system used to power all the ... He says that some data center managers have been ...

Editor's Picks - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... higher-than-normal supply air reduces cooling costs ... only outside air to cool the data center 67% of ... on renewable energy sources such as solar power; and carbon ...

Somebody get me a doctor - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... The physical location is a data center that, like many others, has challenges related to power, cooling, data storage, and high-speed communications. ...

Optical solutions for the collocation data center - Cabling ...
... A cloud computing facility aggregates the common features found in a data center, such as power, cooling, physical plant and networking equipment, and spreads ...

EPA tackling energy efficiency in storage equipment - Cabling ...
... same as it has taken for the data center facilities and ... that, “In storage subsystems, power distribution units, power supplies, cooling devices and ...

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