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Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
by Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent

FOA president chronicles training trip through Africa

Jim Hayes, president of The Fiber Optic Association, posted on the FOA website a summary of his recent trip to three African countries during which he, other FOA personnel, and professionals based in Africa provided fiber-optic training.The training...

Wall calendar takes comic look at data centers

I'm a bit late on the draw with this one but there's still plenty of time to enjoy and get use out of the March 2011-March 2012 wall calendar available from Communications Supply Corporation.The calendar includes comic-strip-style artistry from CSC sales...

Nearly-electrocuted copper-cable thief speaks remorsefully

Several UK-based news sources have reported on the fate of 22-year-old James Sorby, who was nearly electrocuted by 22,000 volts of electricity while trying to steal copper cable from an electrical substation.One of those sources, The Daily Mail, ran a...

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;


From the Pages of CI&M Magazine

IEC honors Hess, Kolesar for standards work - Cabling Installation ...
... Leviton explained that Intertek tested eight different fiber-channel configurations to assure compliance ... Fibre Channel will dominate FCoE, 10GiSCSI for years. ...

Are you ready for 40 and 100G? - Cabling Installation & ...
... physical layer cabling and connector media maximums for 40G/100G fiber channel requirements (the ... For 8G Fibre Channel SAN and OTU2, as well as some 10G, the ...

Editor's Picks - Cabling Installation & Maintenance
... included in the report are examinations of the optical component and module industry in market segments including SONET/SDH, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, WDM and ...

Wrap your mind around BIMMF testing - Cabling Installation & ...
... 50/125-µm fiber has become the fiber of choice for new network builds, this has shifted, and transmission standards such as Ethernet and Fibre Channel use 850 ...

Maintaining fiber-optic polarity with array cabling - Cabling ...
... trunk configurations. Parallel configurations include QSFP, 120-Gbit/sec Fibre Channel and 100-Gbit/sec Ethernet. These configurations ...

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