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Wavefront expands, relaunches its Wireless Zones initiative

Wavefront Wireless Commercialization Centre Society, a national centre of excellence, headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. today announced the expansion and re-launch of its Wireless Zones in six accelerator facilities across Canada. » Read More

New IBM services speed up app development in the cloud

IBM Corp. today announced new Bluemix services it said are designed to simplify and speed app development in the cloud. With these new services, developers can now access and construct preconfigured toolchains using popular DevOps tools, including GitHub and Slack. » Read More

18-wheeler steals show at AWS re: Invent 2016

There was no shortage of announcements from Andy Jassy today during an almost three-hour keynote at AWS re: Invent 2016 in Las Vegas today, but it was the arrival of an 18-wheeler that took centre stage, almost literally. » Read More
 
 
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Transition Networks Inc.

Extender simplifies analog to IP surveillance system upgrades

Transition Networks Inc. has announced the availability of its Ethernet Over Coax Extender with PoE+, which the company said reduces cost and accelerates time to service by utilizing existing coax cabling infrastructure to upgrade from analog to IP-based surveillance cameras or connect other IP devices to the Ethernet network.
The new extender conforms to the IEEE 802.3 af/at standard for compliance with other PoE / PoE+ powered devices, allowing edge devices to be quickly and easily located in places where power was previously not available and helping to avoid unnecessary and costly electrical installations, the company said.
The Ethernet Over Coax Extenders are used in pairs, with a local (EOCPSE4020-110) and remote (EOCPD4020-110) device placed at opposite ends of a 75-ohm coax cable and is capable of delivering a full 25 Watts of power to the edge device at near Gigabit speed. » Read More
Optical Cable Corp.

OCC RJ-45 plug designed for Cat 8 cable adoption

Category 8 Ethernet cable will play a major role in meeting today’s burgeoning needs for high-speed communications, whether in the data centre, voice, video or other high bandwidth applications that run on copper cable for distances up to 30 meters, according to Optical Cable Corp. (OCC)
To ensure that Category 8 adopters will effectively reach data speeds of up to 40 Gb/s – four times the speeds of many of today’s users, the company recently announced that it had launched a new RJ-45 plug with integral circuit board technology that provides advanced control of crosstalk, return loss, and other impediments, ensuring consistent performance at higher frequencies up to 2000 MHz.
Prior to the introduction of the product cable engineers viewed the challenge of transmitting data at rates of up to four times faster over a standard RJ-45 connector as a major concern.
The new RJ-45 plug model is fully backward compatible with existing RJ-45 infrastructure used by a majority of Ethernet connection ports, including Cat 6A, Cat 6 and Cat 5e cabling. It is field installable, and should be familiar to many cable installers. OCC said. » Read More
 
Events 
 

CES 2017

Jan. 5-8
Location: Las Vegas » Read More

BICSI Winter Conference 2017

Jan. 22-26
Location: Tampa, Fla. » Read More

Mobile World Congress 2017

Feb. 27-March 2
Location: Barcelona, Spain » Read More