Electrical Construction & Maintenance

TIA Updates Data Center Cabling Standard to Keep Pace with Technology Advancements

The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-42 Telecommunications Cabling Systems Engineering Committee has approved the TIA-942-B Data Center Cabling Standard. To help data centers address ...
Network World

Cat 8: TIA performance standards committee chairman previews parameters of forthcoming twisted-pair cable standard for 40G

Category 8, the next-generation twisted-pair cabling specification, is still in development, but the outlook looks quite positive that it will be specified to 2GHz, four times today’s bandwidth of ...
No Jitter

ANSI/TIA 568-C, A New Family of Cabling Standards

Get ready for the next generation of cabling standards. Get ready for the next generation of cabling standards, 568-C. Every five years, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) requires ...
Network World

Reversing course – single-pair Ethernet cabling is the future

For more than 25 years structured cabling systems for voice and data applications have been standardized as 4-pair, balanced UTP, ScTP or Sc/FTP cable that now supports up to 40 Gb/s on 30 meters of ...
Automation World

A Structured Approach to Cabling

Amid all the interest in Cloud Computing, Big Data, the Internet of Things, and wireless connectivity in industrial applications, one thing is certain—cables are not disappearing any time soon. Though ...