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Design, Installation and Testing

Cabling-installation projects incorporate far more than just pulling and terminating cables. Cabling systems must be specified and designed well ahead of time, taking into consideration the physical environment in which they are being placed. Cable installation is a critical aspect of these jobs, involving tools, equipment and techniques unto themselves. Cable certification is the final piece, ensuring an installed system is equipped to handle the applications that come its way.


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

Another materials supplier raises prices for cable manufacturers

Today Dow Wire and Cable announced price increases on several cable-manufacturing compounds. The increases will take effect October 1 and affect Dow's customers in North and South America.Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE) based specialty compounds,...

FEP supply situation - Let's blame China

For several years China's ravenous consumption rate of just about everything has made an impact on supply-and-demand levels of, well, just about everything. In the past we have reported about the price of copper being affected by China's consumption of...

Is a TIA Cat 7 standard on the horizon?

A source with connections to the Telecommunications Industry Association's TR-42 Engineering Committee says that sometime next year, the group may take up an issue it has long tabled - the development of specifications for Category 7 twisted-pair cabling...

Editorial Guides
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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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From the Pages of CI&M Magazine

Technologies for measuring power at the device level - Cabling ...
... “We developed a POPS-style design years ago,” he recalls. The industry apparently was not willing to pay for such capability at that time. ...

Fire alarm, EVAC systems require robust and reliable cabling ...
... the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) and its National Electrical Code (NEC) to govern the performance, circuit integrity and safe installation of alarm ...

Better to be safe - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
Better to be safe. Aug 1, 2010. Writing this the morning after I heard (but didn’t see) my three-year-old take a fall down the stairs ...

With optical patch cords make sure you get what you pay for ...
... the industry closer to eliminating installation errors and ... significant amount of engineering design and manufacturing ... through service-life testing is important ...

Corporate objectives, business ops and data center cabling ...
Corporate objectives, business ops and data center cabling. Aug 1, 2010. Questions and answers about the many forms efficiency can ...


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