Technical Articles
BICSI has published these technical articles:
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Since wire mesh basket cable tray was introduced to the United States and Canadian markets, designers and installers have found it a flexible and affordable alternative to J-hooks, ladder trays and...
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When designing a next generation fiber network, ever service provider (SP) wants to build an extremely flexible and reliable infrastructure - and to do so as quickly as possible and at the lowest...
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Closed-circuit television (CCTV) video surveillance systems are becoming commonplace in public facilities. While there are many reasons for implementing CCTV systems, the most significant are...
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A patent is a form of personal property and can be sold for compensation or transferred by gift, will or descent. An owner can give anyone permission to use the invention through licensing. As part of...
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Julie Fletcher, a national services consultant for Automated Systems Design, Inc. (ASD), a nationally recognized manufacturer of structured cabling products and high-speed networks, knows that there...
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Don't worry - this is not like all of the other articles you have read about deploying the latest category 6A unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cabling technology. This article will give you a glimpse...
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Optical fiber communications systems have been around for decades. As with many new technologies, the early days of optical fiber required a major, and often lengthy, learning curve for installers of...
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A decade ago, coaxial cable was the only option available for projects requiring the switching and distribution of high-resolution video signals. Advances in technology have made twisted-pair cable a...
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Many of today's data centers are running 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) over both optical fiber and balanced twisted-pair copper in backbone infrastructure, where large numbers of gigabit links aggregate...
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Wire cable tray was introduced into the marketplace more than a decade ago. Since it initial labeling as a "grocery cart," most have come to appreciate its flexibility and overall lower installed cost...
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As computer capability and power density continue to rise with each generation of server products, the requirement for traditional data centers to efficiently support increased rack density becomes...
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People responsible for the design and operation of data centers need to know multiple disciplines to do their jobs well. A good data center designer and operator needs to understand the information...
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The most basic purpose of a well-designed data center is to store, process and transmit data. One of the most critical resources for accomplishing this is a properly installed and managed cabling...
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As the demand for bandwidth in enterprise applications like data centers continues to boom, new transmission media must be continually developed to meet end user requirements. The latest in optical...
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ITS design approaches can be dissected into pieces and parts that ultimately make up the whole design, and applying a proven approach such as the V-model makes for successful system design. The...
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In the late 1990s, fiber to the desk (FTTD) was the wave of the future. Optical fiber promised higher throughput to each user and offered unlimited growth potential for the life of the cable plant....
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A combination of today's economy and the expanding population of major cities and urban sprawl have caused an increase in the number of vehicles traveling our outdated transportation infrastructure....
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In May 2002, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) published ANSI/TIA/EIA-606-A, Administration Standard of the Commercial Telecommunications Infrastructure. That document established a...
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In recent years, the enterprise networking environment has changed significantly and has seen an explosive increase in data transmission, compounded by the relatively recent increase in the available...
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The ANSI/TIA-598 family of telecommunications standards contain the requirements for balanced twisted-pair and optical fiber cabling, which provide the foundation for the design, installation and...
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How important is data center thermal management energy efficiency? How about cashing in a 50% reduction in cooling energy on a one megawatt data center for $1.9 million savings over the life of the...