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ADC helps Verizon provide federal customers with Green telecom infrastructure (Mar 8, 2010)

ADC has teamed with Verizon Business to provide an end-to-end fiber infrastructure for integration into the Verizon Federal Network Systems' (FNS) Optical LAN Solution and offered to U.S. federal customers.

Prysmian reveals expansion plans for China and India (Feb 25, 2010)

At the FTTH Council conference in Lisbon, Portugal, the cabling giant revealed that it has ambitious plans to grow its market presence in both China and India as part of a global expansion program.

Sumitomo Electric says PureAccess-R5 optical fiber exceeds ITU-T G.657.B3 standard (Feb 22, 2010)

The company says that its PureAccess-R5 bending loss insensitive singlemode optical fiber is fully compliant with the new ITU-T G.657.B3 recommended standard for macrobend at a 5-mm radius, for efficiently routing optical drop cables in applications including FTTH and MDUs.

Middle Atlantic Products appoints new director of customer and sales resources (Feb 2, 2010)

Middle Atlantic Products has promoted Craig Decker to the new position of Director of Customer and Sales Resources.

Prysmian acquires 51% of Ravin Cables, active in India and the United Arab Emirates (Feb 2, 2010)

With turnover of around 45 million euro in the financial year april 2008 – march 2009 and EBITDA of 4.4 million euro, Ravin is one of India's largest cable manufacturers, with a range including low and medium voltage cables.

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...

Cisco announces 10GBase-T switches

Cisco Systems is now in the 10GBase-T business. On Monday, Februray 8, the switching-technology market leader joined server-technology provider Intel in announcing support for the twisted-pair flavor of 10-Gbit Ethernet within Cisco's Catalyst switch...

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You aren't planning to abandon that cable, are you Uncle Sam?

TIA TR-42 subcommittee elections bring new names to the fore

Cisco announces 10GBase-T switches

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