The course places heavy emphasis on fault location, troubleshooting, and test equipment.

CERN scientists deemed that copper connectors would not be able to handle the particle-collider's maximum output.

Fueled by the popularity of smartphones, spending on wireless data will more than double during the next four years, the Telecommunications Industry Association reports in its 2010 ICT Market Review & Forecast.

The Black Box SpaceGAIN CAT5e and CAT6 patch panels feature connectors that tilt down at a 45-degree angle to make patching easier.

By Contributing Editor Stephen Hardy, Lightwave -- AT&T saw this week's Verizon 100-Gbps trial and raised it 27 Gbps in live traffic. The carrier conducted the trial using Cisco's new CRS-3 Carrier Routing System.

The Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System (CRS), as its name implies, has three times the horsepower as the previous CRS-1 platform.

The VITA Standards Organization (VSO) working group responsible for the VITA 65 OpenVPX System Specification recently ratified the specification, which now goes up for ANSI ratification balloting.

By Matthew Vincent, Senior Editor -- Uh, pardon me, but wasn’t Delphi one of the companies mentioned in connection with a recent multi-national  investigation, led by the EU, of a giant wiring harness cartel? You know, the one that’s apparently been rogering automotive/interconnect OEM suppliers like Methode Electronics?

An enhancement to the Lecroy Summit PCI Express Protocol Analyzer, the interposer provides a dedicated probe whereby engineers may analyze data traffic between a host and device connected using an external PCI Express cable.

Last September, automotive monolith Delphi terminated its long-term supply agreement with Methode; the parties are engaged in litigation.