Fluke Networks debuts Category 8 tester; More 2017 BICSI Winter show coverage: The week's top news stories

Here are the cabling, wireless, and data center infrastructure industry's top trending news stories from the past week, as compiled by Cabling Installation & Maintenance and CablingInstall.com.

1.) Fluke Networks introduces DSX-8000 Category 8 tester
The company says the DSX-8000 is “the first tester independently certified and endorsed to meet all requirements for the Category 8 field testing standard.”

2.) 2017 BICSI Winter Conference summons stirring keynotes, exhibit hall buzz, and 10th annual Cabling Skills Challenge
The show floor was abuzz with activity, hosting nearly 180 exhibitors and droves of evening visitors, who relished the event's complimentary food and adult beverage services as they browsed the exhibitors' booth presentations, and spectated the annual Cabling Skills competition.

3.) How the 'Big Four' wireless networks prepared for Trump's Inauguration spectacle
Supporters, protesters, reporters, and spectators descended on the capital on January 20, clogging streets and filling eateries, as they also consumed enormous amounts of mobile bandwidth.

4.) Superior Essex, Legrand jointly showcase structured cabling systems at 2017 BICSI Winter shows
The jointly provisioned nCompass Systems platform encompasses a suite of high-performance copper and optical fiber structured cabling and connectivity solutions that the companies say is uniquely positioned to satisfy the needs of a variety of IoT technologies and services.

5.) APOLAN brings passive optical LAN education, advocacy to 2017 BICSI Winter Conference
“With passive optical LAN adoption growing at a rapid pace, it is clearly a key technology in the future of ICT, which continues to be showcased by the APOLAN member presence at this show,” said APOLAN technology committee chair, Sean P. Kelly, RCDD.

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