Big changes are coming to the security industry in 2012. This coming year, Internet Protocol (IP) network infrastructures will play a front and center role when it comes to the performance of security ...

Robinson’s Engineering Consultants, LLC. (R.E.C.), in direct coordination with Pierre Bourgeix of Butchko•ESI, David Hess of Cord Data, and Robert Brennan of Sentinel Connector Systems, are unveiling ...

Let's face it. We've all been guilty at one time or another of ignoring the cabling backbone or infrastructure. But now, thanks to convergence and integration, that mindset is shifting. With ...

There has been widespread adoption of Category 5 cabling, but some vendors are already touting Enhanced Category 5 and Category 6 as the future. Ken Mann wades through the hype to get to the real ...

Figure 1. EIA/TIA 568 assigns CAT-X cable colors in a standardized way. (Illustrations used with permission of Robert Kerr, NetSpec). Click here to see an enlarged diagram. To get the most out of your ...

Requirements for cabling and other interconnectivity infrastructure products vary widely when you compare traditional commercial environments like office buildings to industrial environments, which ...

BRACKNELL, England—With lower powered infrared and PTZ cameras hitting the market, more end users are turning to nonlocal Ethernet sets to power their video surveillance networks, particularly for ...

At its core, fiber-optic signal transport, where pulses of light are carried through a strand of transparent material, enables signals to move at a faster rate and further than ever before. Following ...

As telecommunications services continue to evolve, your office space (or office building) likely contains remnants of the past in the form of unused cabling infrastructure and its associated ...

This roundtable discussion will look to address how end-users and consultants are currently designing their data center networks to support migration to future higher speeds. What kind of flexibility ...