In today's networks, there are several names for network equipment. Three basic types are hubs, switches, and routers, and what is known as a "switching router" is a combination...
New enhancements to the CableLinks cable-management system include 12-inch plastic straight troughs and junctions designed to protect and route large amounts of cable in the parameter...
Graybar Electric Co. (St. Louis) has opened a 204,000-sq-ft distribution center in Youngstown, OH-the eighth of 16 similar facilities planned nationwide.
Evangelists for local-area-network (LAN) wireless technology are no longer considering themselves as merely an alliance of industry leaders, but instead as an educational association...
BC Communications (San Antonio, TX), through its Pacific Bell subsidiary, has signed a five-year agreement with Los Angeles County to establish a groundbreaking high-speed telecommunica...
Transition Networks Inc. (Minneapolis) has introduced a media-conversion platform that it calls PointSystem. The platform is based on Transition's Conversion Center PS, which ...
Despite recent concerted efforts by industry experts on cable, connectors, and testing, a Category 6 cabling standard remains mired in details and unresolved technical issues ...
By now, you are probably well aware of the serious need for qualified labor in the communications-cabling industry. Certainly, if you have tried to hire personnel recently, you...
We have reached the stage in the development of information-technology (IT) systems where pretty much everything we can think of is automated and handled by computers. Or have...
Many thanks to all of you who wrote, telephoned, and thanked me in person for the Category 6 information. In response to your "keep-me-in-the-loop" requests, I offer the following...
