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