Singlemode Fiber Cable: Cabling Installation and Maintenance
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Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
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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New Products - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... from certifying copper-cabling links to the certification of multimode and singlemode fiber-optic cabling to Tier 1 specifications. ...

New Products - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... The PSI-MOS 1300 series of singlemode fiber-optic media converter modules for the 1300 nm wavelength complement existing modules for 660 and 850 nm wavelengths ...

Axis, Genetec, IBM team up for intelligent networked video system ...
... This entry-level course covers both multimode and singlemode fiber networks and is intended for installation contractors and end users involved in building and ...

Laying the infrastructure for a major league installation ...
... In the Lucas Oil Stadium system, primary signal distribution is provided via the telecommunication system’s singlemode fiber backbone. ...

New Products - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... ezInterconnect cables with BendBright-XS fiber inside for MDU applications are now available with BendBright Elite, a customized singlemode fiber designed for ...

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