News

Press Releases

• August 19, 2010
  New TIA cabling standard covers healthcare facilities
  The Telecommunications Industry Association has released a new standard covering cabling systems in healthcare facilities. TIA-1179 Healthcare Facility Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard includes requirements for healtchare facilities like hospitals and clinics. It includes specs for cabling performance, topologies and distances as well as pathways and spaces.

• July 23, 2010
  New White Paper: Field Testing Installed Optical Fiber
  This White Paper co-authored by Fluke Networks and Ortonics/Legrand reviews best practices for the technician performing field tests on installed optical fiber cabling. It can be downloaded for free from www.fols.org.

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Members Releases

• August 19, 2010
  Panduit providing data center infrastructure for IBM enterprise modular platform
  TINLEY PARK, Ill. -- Panduit, a provider of infrastructure for the data center, is partnering with IBM to bring large modular, plug and play data centers to market. The enterprise modular data center (EMDC), as coined by IBM, are large modular data centers designed in smaller, standardized modules with the capability to plug in additional capacity over time as needed, such as power and cooling.

• August 19, 2010
  Panduit opens new HQ
  TINLEY PARK, Ill. -- Panduit Corporation announced the opening of its new world headquarters building in Tinley Park, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. The building incorporates Panduit's Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) approach, which it says gives enterprises the capabilities to connect, manage and automate communications, computing, power, control and security systems for a smarter business foundation.

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Events

• Web Conference: LAN Standards, News & Trends
  April 27, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. EST