2009 Manufacturer Reps of the Year Announced
Superior Essex announced Morgan Hill Marketing, which serves Upstate New York and Western Pennsylvania, as the 2009 Manufacturer’s Rep Firm of Year; and both Superior Essex and Leviton announced LanJam, which serves California, Northern Nevada and Hawaii, as the NextLAN Systems 2009 Rep Firm of the Year. The NextLAN Systems suite of products is designed by both Superior Essex and Leviton.
Both Morgan Hill and LanJam were chosen as award recipients after having excelled across the board in every determining category.
Also weighing heavily in the decision, Morgan Hill excelled in understanding their customers' needs and drove project specification for Superior Essex cables. For LanJam, it was the company’s ability to influence the sale of high-performance CAT 6A NextLAN cabling systems.
Learn more about the Superior Essex cable portfolio at the link below.
Superior Essex Cable Products
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Head-to-Head Test Demonstrates Superior Electrical Performance of 10Gain XP
Superior Essex has released a video that puts the new 10Gain XP (CAT 6A UTP) cable in a real-time head-to-head alien crosstalk performance test against a shielded cable and competitor CAT 6A UTP cable.
The test demonstrates how the 10Gain XP CAT 6A cable has alien crosstalk performance similar to that of an overall shielded CAT 6A cable, and electrical performance that is far superior to that of typical CAT 6A UTP cables.
10Gain XP CAT 6A cable meets the technical requirements of a UTP cable and is designed specifically for unshielded cabling networks. Additionally, 10Gain XP is compact in size - only 0.295 inches in diameter, making it a better option than a typical UTP cable for installations with limited space.
10Gain XP CAT 6A cable is a key component of the NextLAN AXi cabling system, which is comprised of CAT 6A connectivity from Leviton and cable from Superior Essex. To learn more about the electrical performance and benefits of 10Gain XP, click the link below.
10Gain XP
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Default Ballots for TIA 862-A and TIA 1179 Distributed
TIA TR-42 and its working groups met in February in California. In addition to other activities TR-42.1 reviewed two Draft standards: the Building Automation Cabling Standard for Commercial Buildings (BAS) TIA 862-A and the Healthcare Facility Cabling standard, which will become TIA 1179. Once the reviews of both drafts were completed and many comments resolved, the committee moved to distribute the Default ballots to the full committee.
Within TR-42.7, a recommendation was made and approval given to publish TSB 155-A which is an updated version of the Guidelines for the Assessment and Mitigation of Installed Category 6 Cabling to Support 10GBASE-T. The previous version of Annex A provided detailed recommendations for cabling (field) measurement procedures. The new version replaces the bulk of these recommendations with a referral to ANSI/TIA-1152 Requirements for Field Test Instruments and Measurements for Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling.
Additionally, work continued on what will become TSB-190 Guidelines on Shared Pathways and Shared Sheaths. The next full meeting of TR-42 will be held the first week of June.
For more information about TIA, click the link below.
TIA
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Visit Superior Essex Booth #407 at ACUTA Spring; Booth #307 at AFCEA C4 Tactical
Stop by Booth #407 for the ACUTA Spring Conference at the JW Marriott San Antonia Hill Country in San Antonio, TX (April 18 - 21, 2010). View our newest product offering, 10Gain XP, which gives colleges and university performance like a shielded cable in an unshielded environment. This CAT 6A UTP cable has a 0.295 inch cable diameter and offers 4 dB of Alien Crosstalk margin guarantee when used in the new NextLAN AXi Cabling System, which is co-engineered by Superior Essex and Leviton.
Superior Essex and Leviton will exhibit together in the NextLAN Systems booth (#307) at the AFCEA C4 Tactical conference at the Georgia International Convention Center in Atlanta, GA (April 20 - 21, 2010). Together, Superior Essex and Leviton will present a variety of copper and optical fiber cabling offerings from the NextLAN Systems suite.
Learn more about the NextLAN suite of products at the link below.
NextLAN Systems
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Guidelines to Ensure a Successful OSP Broadband Installation
Superior Essex manufactures Outside Plant (OSP) Broadband cables for outdoor use in Category 5, 5e and 6 cables designs. These OSP cables have no fire resistance ratings, and as such are subject to common restrictions on indoor use per codes and standards. To help installers and designers familiarize themselves with critical characteristics of Superior Essex cables, we have created an OSP Broadband Installation Guide that is available on our site at the link below.
OSP Installation Guidelines
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Superior Essex has introduced a new Microarray Breakout Cable, designed for high performance in a small package. The new cable design consists of six 12-fiber 3 mm microarray interconnect cable subunits, each of which contain twelve 250 micron multimode fibers. Additionally, the individual subunits of the microarray breakout cable are available in a 12-fiber Microarray Interconnect Cable.
View our premises optical fiber offerings, including the Microarray Breakout Cable and Microarray Interconnect Cable, from Superior Essex at the link below.
Premises Optical Fiber Portfolio
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Superior Essex does not make a “Submarine” type optical fiber cable to be submerged in large bodies of water, 60 feet or deeper. However, our standard OSP products would be suitable in some situations such as in shallow body of water, like a pond. We recommend that the cable have no splices in the area where it is to be submerged.
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Chemicals can degrade the cable jacket material, depending on both the jacket material and the chemical.
Please contact Superior Essex (800.551.8948) for alternative jacketing options that are resistant to the specific chemical(s) in question before choosing a cable with a standard jacket material in areas where chemicals are present. For example, a jacket made of PVDF (fluoropolymer) or nylon (polyamide) will impart specific resistance to a number of classes of chemical compounds compared to standard materials of which cables are typically made.
Please visit our FAQ page for more information on these and other topics. If you would like to contact our Technical Support Team, click the link below.
Technical Support
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