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Working Group 134, Telecomunicaciones Red de Planta Ecterna y Nuevas Technologías, of the Instituto Colombiano de Normas Técnicas y Certificación (ICONTEC) develops telecommunications cabling Standards for Colombian information technology (IT) infrastructure. Norma Técnica Colombiana (NTC) Standards specify requirements and best practices for structured cabling systems and technology and are referenced by a wide range of users, designers, and specifiers. Key NTC IT infrastructure Standards include: Common and Premises Cabling Standards: NTC 6064-1: Tecnología de la

Plug and Play is a term that has been used to describe a product or solution that works seamlessly when the specific components are connected or plugged together. These words were first used as a feature of a computer system by which peripherals were automatically detected and configured by the operating system. The term has been readily adopted by the cabling industry to describe fiber optic structured cabling links used in the data center and

Despite the global economy slowly starting to recover, one rather destructive issue left in the wake of the waning Covid-19 pandemic is the major disruption to the global supply chain. Previously existing inefficiencies in the supply chain have been compounded by border restrictions, labor and material shortages, skyrocketing demand following lockdowns, weather events, and geopolitical factors (just to name a few) that have left bottlenecks in every link of the supply chain – all while

In a previous blog, we discussed how SFP direct attach cables (DACs) will support most enterprise server speeds in top-of-rack (ToR) switch-to-server deployments well into the future, with their ability to support downlink speeds of 25 Gig via SFP28 DACs and the potential for 50 Gig via emerging SFP56 DACs. But the truth is that larger cloud and enterprise data centers are already seeing the need for 100 Gig server speeds, with the need for

As Wi-Fi 7 specifications evolve in the IEEE P802.11be™ “Enhancements for Extremely High Throughput (EHT) Wireless LAN” amendment, there’s the usual buzz about whether wireless networks will make wired networks obsolete. As with previous Wi‑Fi implementations, Wi-Fi 7 will have both associated theoretical maximum (46.1 Gb/s upstream and downstream combined) and “real world” (> 20 Gb/s upstream and downstream combined) throughput. Based on this impressive bandwidth, it’s tempting to think that IEEE 802.11be devices might