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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...

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From the Pages of CI&M Magazine

Technology considerations in a connected building environment ...
... the capabilities of Ethernet by delivering both data and reliable DC power over the same cables to endpoint devices such as Voice over IP phones, access ...

Campus brings fiber and Cat 6A to the desk for advanced learning ...
... of equipment to the network for applications such as Voice over IP telephony, digital ... The Cisco VoIP phones throughout the facility are video phones, and ...

WiFi offloading, cell-phone batteries and dual-band access ...
... Reports recently issued by two market-research organizations both predict that the use of mobile Voice over Internet Protocol (mobile VoIP) will climb through ...

Evolution of healthcare IT drives migration to IP-converged ...
... Voice systems, using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to enable low-cost telephone communications, call forwarding, recording and instant messaging. ...

Cabling an inner-city healthcare facility - Cabling Installation & ...
... in the TR." Currently voice and data are separate in the TR, but the cable was consistent–a better-performing Category 6 for future migration to Voice over IP ...

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