Researcher gathers trends, data on market drivers including USB 3.0, Light Peak, and even the iPad.

Berk-Tek's 10G LD UTP cable supports 10GBase-T to a maximum of 60 meters and is 0.265 inches in diameter.

General's OM2, OM3, and OM4 multimode fiber is now ultra-bendable.

The Fiber Optic Association has brought back Fiber U, a free online learning resource for fiber optic professionals.

The company has introduced a pair of fault locators designed to help network installers isolate light leaks or breaks in fiber-optic cable.

For several years the structured cabling industry as a whole has been on the outside looking in on the activities of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC; www.usgbc.org).

The riser-rated cables are known as 17 Free because they are free of halogens, which fall into Group 17 of the Periodic Table.

Mohawk is introducing rugged fiber optic cable for applications in harsh environments such as broadcast, mining, industrial, and military communications.

The similarities between the technologies at the heart of Intel’s Light Peak initiative and active optical cables should benefit the latter in the long run, Information Gatekeepers Inc. (IGI) predicts in its new Active Optical Cables Mark.......

Equinix has been chosen as key data center interconnect provider for the PIPE Pacific Cable (PPC-1) undersea cable, which runs 6,900 km from Guam to Sydney with a capacity of 2.56 terabits per second.

The tester from Psiber Data Systems also conducts PoE testing and determines the actual power used by a powered device.

The Tyco Electronics business unit handles undersea communications technology and successfully deployed a shore-end plow during a landing operation.

The increases, ranging from 6 to 20 cents per pound net, take effect January 1, 2010.

Finisar is holding the first public demonstration of a 120-Gbps CXP-to-QSFP active breakout cable at the SuperComputing 2009 (SC09) exhibition in Portland, OR.