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High-speed Cabling Articles & News
FCI acquires assets of MergeOptics, moves into AOC market
(Feb 22, 2010)
Connector and cable assembly manufacturer FCI has acquired the assets of MergeOptics, a manufacturer of active optical cables (AOCs) and optical transceivers.
Forecast: Active optical cabling to hit $192M by 2013
(Dec 23, 2009)
The active optical cable (AOC) market will predominantly use InfiniBand to interconnect supercomputer systems through 2012, according to the AOC report by LightCounting LLC. Other commercial protocols, such as Gigabit Ethernet, SAS, Fibre Channel, and PCI Express, will not reach significant volumes until 2012.
PIPE International picks Equinix Sydney for data center interconnect of new undersea cable
(Dec 17, 2009)
Equinix has been chosen as key data center interconnect provider for the PIPE Pacific Cable (PPC-1) undersea cable, which runs 6,900 km from Guam to Sydney with a capacity of 2.56 terabits per second.
CommScope adds pre-terminated fiber connectivity to IBM's Portable Modular Data Center
(Dec 16, 2009)
CommScope Enterprise Solutions is teaming with IBM on its Fiber Transport System (FTS) S-Line Solution, a pre-terminated fiber optic platform that can be integrated into IBM’s Portable Modular Data Center (PMDC).
Siemon supplying cabling for IBM Portable Modular Data Center
(Dec 4, 2009)
The PMDC can include Siemon's Category 6A or 7 twisted-pair copper cabling systems, the MapIT G2 Infrastructure Management System, as well as plug-and-play fiber-optic cabling solutions.
High-speed Cabling Products
Tyco Electronics adds LSZH cables for up to 16 Gb/s high-speed connectivity apps
(Mar 1, 2010)
The LSZH cables are designed to minimize emission of smoke and toxic gases in the event of a fire, and are PVC-free to answer growing concerns about the potential health and environmental effects of PVC.
Draka introduces pre-terminated cabling for data centers
(Feb 16, 2010)
Draka Communications has announced a new range of pre-terminated cabling products for LAN and data center network applications.
Siemon debuts 40+Gb/s SFF-8470 passive copper cabling assemblies
(Feb 16, 2010)
The SFF-8470 assemblies offer data transfer rates from 2.5Gb/s to 10+ Gb/s per lane for support of high-speed interconnect applications.
Siemon unveils 10+Gb/s SFP+ passive copper cabling products for data centers
(Feb 10, 2010)
The company has introduced a line of SFP+ copper cable assemblies developed as a lower-power alternative to optical cables for short reach links in high-speed interconnect applications such as high-performance computing (HPC), enterprise networking and network storage systems.
Draka offering bend-insensitive OM3 and OM4 multimode fiber
(Jan 25, 2010)
The MaxCap-BB-OM3 and MaxCap-BB-OM4 fibers can help optical systems in data center environments achieve high power budgets to successfully transmit at 10 Gbits/sec.
The Cabling Blog
by Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
Copper connectors putting Large Hadron Collider out of commission
Are you familiar with the Large Hadron Collider? I knew nothing about it until I read Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. Then it started popping up in the news all the time, so it seemed. The LHC -- I don't know if that's its real abbreviation or not -- is a...
You aren't planning to abandon that cable, are you Uncle Sam?
Government Computer News (GCN) is reporting that cabling-integration firm Automated Systems Design (ASD) was contracted to install the cabling for some 500 temporary offices for the Census Bureau as that government entity ramped up for its data-collection...
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...
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General Cable's Comparative Power-Over-Ethernet (PoE) Testing Between Category 6A and Category 5e Cables
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10GbE Fiber: A Practical Understanding and Functional Approach
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Preventing IT Heat Disasters: Backup Air Conditioners for Small to Mid-size Server Rooms and Network Closets
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