Cables - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Dial (or read) before you dig

  Cable workers map out telecoms networks

• Chinese 'driving ICT agenda' in Africa: Wikileaks

  The latest US cable released by Wikileaks scorns Chinese ICT companies doing business in Kenya as "re-colonising Africa" with "good and cheap" equipment, even if the after-sales service is described as s***.
  

• Aus network bandwidth doubled with $400m deal

  Raw network bandwidth out of Australia is set to get a two-fold increase with a new $US400 million undersea cable project announced in Sydney today.
  

• Telstra-NBN Co deal opens up 6m kms of fibre

  NBN Co could gain access to 6 million kilometres worth of Telstra's fibre networks as part of the $11 billion Financial Heads of Agreement deal between the National Broadban Network (NBN) wholesaler and the telco.

• NBN: Underground vs overhead cable debate rolls on

  As the National Broadband Network (NBN) construction chugs along in Tasmania, debate on the mainland continues as to whether laying the fibre optic cables underground is more advantageous than putting them in existing overhead infrastructure.

• Powerline: the next big thing?

  For many moons now, PC publications have talked about ways to connect devices wirelessly. As far as wired connections went, innovations have seemed thin on the ground. However, a way of physically connecting devices using something called Powerline -- a concept that has been around for three or four years -- is now making its presence felt in the U.K.

Whitepapers about Cables

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  Best practices for routing and securing cables exiting the back of FX2/FX2s systems

  This whitepaper covers basic guidelines on how to route cables within an IT rack from installation to connecting, routing and securing the cables to the SRB.