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Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
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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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From the Pages of CI&M Magazine

Securing the future of fiber in a health-care facility - Cabling ...
... to use a new cable offering: Corning Cable Systems’ MIC DX Armored Riser Cable, which is an all-dielectric armored fiber-optic cable design that eliminates ...

New Prodcuts - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... and are “intelligence-ready.” The system’s trunk cables, fanouts, and array cords are constructed with a loose-fiber cable design, minimizing stress on ...

Industry Spotlight - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... and Mohawk/CDT over its nearly 50 years of existence, the company most recently was acquired by Belden through a merger with Cable Design Technologies in 2004. ...

Ethernet standard a sign of network greening - Cabling ...
... low usage. Impact on cabling design. Although the ... and analysis. It is unclear how these trends will influence cabling design. As the ...

New Products - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... The companies say it is the first UTP cabling system to guarantee 4 dB performance margin for power sum alien crosstalk, via a round cable design with a 0.30 ...

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