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Siemon’s Valerie Maguire Named One of the Industry’s Top 20 Positive Contributors
Siemon, a leading global network infrastructure specialist, is pleased to announce that Valerie Maguire, global sales engineer, was recently named as one of the top 20 positive contributors to the cabling and networking industry by Cabling Installation & Maintenance (CI&M) … Continue reading
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The TIA Great Cat 8 Debate and ISO/IEC Cabling Update
After debating the issue for three meetings cycles, the TIA TR-42.7 Copper Cabling Subcommittee adopted “category 8” as the name of their next generation balanced twisted-pair cabling system that is currently under development to support 40Gb/s transmission in a 2-connector … Continue reading
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What about Category 7A Cabling?
The cover story of the latest edition of Processor magazine features an exciting story on Category 7A entitled “What About Category 7A Copper Cabling?” In the article, you’ll learn how Siemon TERA remains today’s highest performing twisted-pair cabling system despite … Continue reading
New TIA Subcommittee will address IT Sustainability
All recently published TIA TR-42 Standards contain a new “Stewardship” clause as part of their Foreword text. This is the TR-42 Telecommunications Cabling Systems Committee’s way of raising awareness that: telecommunications infrastructure design and installation affects raw material consumption, which … Continue reading
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Yes, IT Manager, There is a Category 7A—And it Shares Better
More than century after eight-year old Virginia learned from the editor of the New York Sun that there was indeed a Santa Clause, IT managers and end users who recently learned about TIA’s latest “category 8” can rest assured that … Continue reading
John Siemon on The Great Cable Debate
In the October 2012 of Network magazine (Middle East), the cover story is “The Great Cable Debate: Two cabling giants debate whether UTP [unshielded twisted pair] or STP [shielded twisted pair] cables are best for 10GBASE-T networks” where it has … Continue reading
Next Generation IEEE BASE-T Study Group Contribution Suggests Shielded Cabling as the Better Choice
Posted on the public area of the newly formed IEEE 802.3 Next Generation BASE-T study group is an interesting contribution by Dan Dove of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation proposing three distinct cabling reach topologies for different applications in the data … Continue reading
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TIA releases 942-A – what it means to you in simple terms.
TIA 942 was the first data center cabling standard in the US. Many countries either follow or at least use its guidance. In TIA (View the Standards Informant Guide to TIA Standards), standards are written with a useful life of … Continue reading
Key Facts about 10GBASE-T in 2012
This is a summary of the key points from a recent white paper by Siemon and PLX “State of the Network: 10GBASE-T Equipment Availability and the Future of Copper Media“ that explains why 10GBASE-T is NOT the end of the line … Continue reading
Siemon’s Stance on White Paper Titled, “Suitability of Category 7A/Class FA As A Future Proofing Media For 40 Gbps Applications”
The purpose of this document is to communicate Siemon’s position in response to a recent paper from a competitor titled, “Suitability of Category 7A/Class FA As A “Future Proofing Media For 40 Gbps Applications,” dated April 2012. This document also … Continue reading
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