CablingInstall's Weekly Top 5: Gauging Cat 5e, 6, 6A cabling’s readiness for 2.5 and 5GBase-T; Good news for WBMMF

Sept. 9, 2016
Plus: New cable dressing/bundling tool; Magnetic modular jacks deliver 2.5 GbE, 30W over 2-pair PoE in single configuration.

Here are the top 5 trending stories at CablingInstall.com from the past week:

1.) Paper describes evaluating Cat 5e, 6, 6A cabling’s readiness for 2.5 and 5GBase-T NBase-T Alliance member companies CME Consulting, CommScope, Fluke Networks and Panduit have collaborated to author a white paper that provides guidelines on how to evaluate the readiness of existing Category 5e, 6 and 6A copper cabling infrastructure for NBase-T (2.5G and 5GBase-T) deployment.

2.) Cable dressing/bundling tool mounts to hand cart, cable reel, work platform
Developed and manufactured by Tantus Enterprises, LLC, the Bundlizer is a cable dressing/bundling solution that allows the cable to be bundled while it is being pulled and eliminates the dressing step of the cabling installation process.


3.) Magnetic modular jacks deliver 2.5 GbE, 30W over 2-pair PoE in single configuration
According to Molex, "currently, no other magnetic modular jack delivers 2.5 GbE and 30W over 2-pair PoE in a single configuration."

4.) Private equity firm H.I.G. Capital acquires CABLExpress
CABLExpress does business as CXtec and TERACAI Corporation. H.I.G. did not disclose the deal's financial terms.

5.) WBMMF being referenced in proposed 2-fiber 100G standard
In a post to the CommScope Blog titled “Good News for WBMMF,” Paul Kolesar reports that a proposal made within the IEEE references the TIA’s wideband multimode fiber (WBMMF) standard as media to support a 2-fiber version of 100G.

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