Network Protocols: Cabling Installation and Maintenance

Network Protocols: Cabling Installation and Maintenance


Network Protocols News & Products Mellanox lowers 10-GbE pricing (Feb 3, 2012) Move signifies that Mellanox is now positioning itself as a low-cost alternative to competitors such as Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, and Arista Networks. Intel acquires QLogic's Infiniband IP (Feb 3, 2012) Intel has acquired QLogic's InfiniBand intellectual property (IP) for $125 million in a strategic move toward exascale supercomputing. Ethernet Alliance to hold end user forum (Feb 1, 2012) Latest installment in the Ethernet Alliance’s TEF series is 1-day event especially intended to provide the Ethernet end-user community with an opportunity to voice its needs. Infonetics raises forecast on Carrier Ethernet (Dec 6, 2011) Infonetics Research says that Carrier Ethernet equipment sales trends have exceeded the company’s expectations. Luxtera, Molex unveil 100-Gbps single chip optical transceivers for data center, HPC (Nov 21, 2011) 4x28Gbps silicon photonics transceiver chip will be demonstrated to networking and computing OEMs at this month's SC11 in Seattle. OIF launches 100G transmitter project (Nov 21, 2011) New 100G project provides a common electrical interface that allows the inclusion of other modulator technology that may offer substantial cost and size reduction for a transmitter assembly. Report: Optical transceiver market spikes 35%; 40G sees big gains (Nov 7, 2011) It would appear that the advent of 100-Gbps has not yet killed demand for 40-Gbps technology. More News & Products > The Cabling Blog by Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent 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... More Cabling Blog >		Network Protocols Videos Draka's Jack Rosko talks about coming trends in 40- and 100-Gigabit Ethernet cabling.; 100 Gigabit Ethernet; 100G; 40 Gigabit Ethernet; 40G; Draka; Todd Duberstein, product manager, discusses some of the latest media-conversion technology for enterprise and industrial environments.; Industrial Networks; Media Converstion; Transition Networks; General Cable's Bob Kenny explains how the company's Mosaic Twisted Pair (MTP) cabling technology prevents alien crosstalk.; Alien Crosstalk; General Cable; mosaic; MTP cable; CCCA, BICSI appointments; Data center Plugfest results; CPI acquires Epicenter.; BICSI; CCCA; Chatsworth Products; data center; Ethernet Alliance; More Videos > From the Pages of CI&M Magazine Smarter, greener infrastructure designs for data centers - Cabling ... ... voice, video, security, industrial control and building-management information as data signals across the enterprise, using a shared, common network protocol. ... Storage and local networks in the data center - Cabling ... ... and commissioned by Dell Inc., showed that customer interest in using 10-Gbit Ethernet as the physical network or common network protocol for storage and ... The impact of emerging standards on LAN and SAN infrastructures ... ... Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Dell Inc., customer interest in using 10-Gbit Ethernet as the physical network or common network protocol for storage ... High-density optical connectivity in the data center - Cabling ... ... The progression toward 40- and 100-Gbit/sec network protocols is currently calling for parallel optics in place of serial connections, and MPO connectors are ... Media converters for changing technologies - Cabling Installation ... ... “We're putting VLAN technologies intoour media converters; I call it ?Layer 2.5,'” he says, referring to the OSI 7-layer model of network-protocol design. ... More From the Pages of CI&M Magazine > Webcasts Upcoming Optical Fiber, Cable and Connectivity We will examine optical infrastructure “from the ground up” – including the optical fiber itself, fiber-optic cable, and connectivity options... (Feb 08, 2012 12:00 PM CST / 6:00 PM GMT) Sponsored By: OFS US Conec Ltd. Total Cable Solutions Available On Demand Non-compliant Cable: Understanding the Risks and Avoiding Liability Sponsored By: Communications Cable and Connectivity Association (CCCA) Crowell & Moring Underwriters Laboratories Resolving the Evolving 10G Interconnect Sponsored By: Omnitron Systems More Webcasts >