March 2006 E-Newsletter

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Kansas City Ronald McDonald House
Chooses Superior Essex Cable

Ronald McDonald House Charities, a global charitable network, provides affordable housing for families of seriously ill children while they receive treatment at a nearby hospital. In Kansas City (MO), building a new Ronald McDonald House near Children’s Mercy Hospital presented the organization with an opportunity to - for the first time - provide Internet access in each of the 41 bedrooms and the family room.

The new Ronald McDonald House was outfitted with a CAT 5e Cobra cable, CAT 3 and 62.5 Multimode Fiber Optic Cable from Superior Essex.

To read details about the Ronald McDonald House installation, click here.

Series 6 Quad Shield CM available in Pop^® Box package

Superior Essex is now offering its Series 6 Quad Shield CM in a Pop^® Box package.

Superior Essex Series 6 Quad Shield Coaxial Cables are designed to surpass the basic product requirements specified in the TIA/EIA 570-B Residential Telecommunications Standard. Specifically, the cables exhibit quality transmission characteristics, making it ideal for High Definition Television (HDTV), Cable Television (CATV), Extended bandwidth satellite service, Two-way cable modems, and Closed circuit television (CCTV).

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Standards Update

FOSE The IEEE 802.3an 10GBASE-T Task Force met to review ballot comments on Draft 3.1 of the 10GBASE-T proposed standard in Denver on March 7-8. There were 95 comments on Draft 3.1 in comparison to 275 comments to the previous Draft 3.0 ballot.

In a liaison letter, TIA TR-42 conveyed to IEEE that they had begun the necessary work to update TIA/EIA 568-B. The revision will become TIA 568-C and will reorganize the document structure as follows:

TIA 568-C.0: A Generic Specification
TIA 568-C.1: Cabling Specification
TIA 568-C.2: Component Specification for Copper
TIA 568-C.3: Component Specification for Optical Fiber.

It is expected that the new TIA 568-C standard will take several months
to complete.

Click here to visit the IEEE Web Site.

NEW

Superior Essex Introduces Shielded
OSP Broadband
CAT 6 Cables

Superior Essex announces that it has expanded its newly introduced Outside Plant Broadband CAT 6 cable product (BBD6) line to include two new shielded cables – BBDN6 and BBDG6 – which protect against EMI and RFI. BBDN6 has an aluminum armor while BBDG6 has a copper-clad armor which offers added protection against rodents.

The new cables are Ideal for backbone LAN. Both BBDN6 and BBDG6 have fully-filled cores that consists of four balanced 24 AWG copper pairs and a flooding compound that prevents water ingress. Sunlight resistant jackets surrounds the fill core, giving
it the added durability needed to be an OSP rated cable. Finally, both cables have guaranteed transmission performance out to 250 MHz.

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Q: What is the color code for optical fiber cable?

A: The fibers in a Superior Essex cable follow the Standard Fiber Color Code defined in
ANSI/TIA/EIA-598-B.

The color order is: Blue, Orange, Green, Brown, Slate, White, Red, Black, Yellow, Violet, Rose, and Aqua. Colors 13 through 24 are defined by using the same color code as 1 through 12, but now the unit has either a black stripe or dash mark, except for black, where the stripe or dash is white or yellow. Typically, the 250 micron fibers themselves use only colors 1 through 12, i.e. blue through aqua. Tight buffered fibers, loose tube units, subunits, etc. can have colors 1 - 24.

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