...with reduced cable costs. Standardized protocols like Rapid Spanning Tree (RSTP), Multiple Spanning Tree (MSTP), and Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) allow for failover links and interoperability over multiple vendor switches. • In addition, ...

...video that’s prerecorded, and video that’s streamed live, and all of these can be created by you or, if your budget allows, by an outside ad agency. And then there’s the delivery method. It can come from a DVD player, a USB flash drive, a medi...

SmartPath™ Enterprise Wireless • Black Box SmartPath moves wireless LAN management to the cloud, creating resilient, controller-less networks • New 802.11n system enables quick, affordable Wi-Fi expansion with no single points of failure. • PI...

Energy and utility markets to embrace tech innovations • The global energy and utility markets - which were traditionally seen to be conservative and slow moving - look set to embrace technological innovations over the coming year, if a new Ga...

...with requirements for Cat6a (10GB/s). • To Shield or Not to Shield? • Another hot topic is the use of shielding—with fiber, this is not an issue, but copper has a number of specific shielding requirements. The channel-capacity requirements for 40G...

Top Technology Trends for 2015 • by IEEE Computer Society • Top Technology Trends for 2015 • IEEE Computer Society announced the top 10 most important technology trends for 2015 and explores how these technologies will be integrated into d...

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...server via a Catx cable with the appropriate cross wired server access module on the end. Secure Terminal Servers provide challenge and authentication, and can be integrated into existing security infrastructure such as LDAP, RADIUS, and Activ...

...special low-capacitance cable. Both sync and async binary data transmission fall under RS-232. Although the original RS-232 connector is DB25, DB9 and RJ-45 connectors are now common. Also, industrial devices often use a terminal block instead of a ...