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A Robust Industrial Ethernet Infrastructure Consisting of Environmentally Hardened Network Cabling, Connectivity, and Active Components Is Essential to Long-Term Performance and Reliability

Industrial Ethernet is trending to be the principal infrastructure choice for mission-critical industrial automation and control applications. Industrial Ethernet is built on the same standards-based networking platform as enterprise Ethernet, which has long reigned as the universal network solution. Industrial Ethernet connects the office with the plant floor by utilizing...

Tags: Network, Belden, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2009-07-01

Innovative Solutions to Overcome the Challenges of Heat Management in the Data Center

According to the EPA's Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency, if current trends continue, the demand for power by data centers will require an additional 10 power plants on the North American power grid by 2011. In order to minimize the impact of this phenomenon, data...

Tags: Data Center, Belden, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-06-05

The Path to Convergence: Drivers, Challenges, and Solutions for the Enterprise

The future of enterprise networks is IP convergence where signal transmission for networking, A/V, and building management and security systems are merged over one common infrastructure using common protocols rather than deploying separate closed, proprietary solutions. Enterprises face many challenges as they embark on deploying IP convergence, and most are...

Tags: IP, Enterprise Network, Convergence, Belden, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking

White papers 2009-01-13

Voice Over Wireless LAN (VoWLAN)

Voice over IP VoIP is maturing and achieving increasing corporate acceptance as device costs decrease and VoIP phones improve. Employing VoIP over Wireless LAN VoWLAN, freeing the telephone from the cord, is an obvious next step. It is expected that the enterprise VoWLAN market will initially be driven by specific...

Tags: Phone, Voice, Security Application, WLAN, Wireless, Belden, VoWLAN Phone, LANs, Telephony, Wireless LANs, VOIP, Telecommunications, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Networking

White papers 2007-07-17

Wireless LAN Coverage and Capacity

A Wireless LAN WLAN allows mobile professionals and managers to connect their portable PCs, PDAs, and wireless phones to the enterprise network instantly and effortlessly anywhere in the enterprise. But the adoption of WLAN in the large enterprise has been hindered by challenges of current WLAN technology, such as poor...

Tags: WLAN, Wireless, Belden, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Networking

White papers 2007-07-17

Hirschmann Networking Interoperability to Industrial/Process and EtherNet/IP Environments

Originally published by Xerox in 1976 and introduced as the IEEE 802.3 standard in 1985, the networking protocol popularly known as "Ethernet" has steadily evolved to encompass commercial, residential, and industrial applications, in roughly that order. Late to participate, industrial users are readily adopting Ethernet, encouraged by GM's March 2003...

Tags: Interoperability, Network, Environment, IP, Belden, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2007-01-29

Increase Your Network's Security by Making the Right Premise Cabling Decisions

Planning for a secure network starts from the ground up. Security affects all levels of the network including the structured cabling infrastructure. Take the necessary steps towards security. The first step towards securing a network is to define the targeted level of security based on the perceived level of threat...

Tags: Network, Belden, Security

White papers 2006-08-01

10 Gb/s LAN Networking: Optical Fiber LAN Design Considerations

The purpose of this paper is to guide premise wiring telecommunications specialists through the decision making process regarding future optical fiber cabling implementations for LAN environments. One will go through the latest technology updates and information to simplify the process and assist the reader in making the wisest decisions for...

Tags: Network, Optical Fiber, Belden, Telephony, LANs, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Telecommunications, Networking

White papers 2006-07-01

Building the home network of your dreams

Building the home network of your dreamsHouse buildingWhen I had my house built, I purchased a 1000' roll of CAT 3 wire it was a few years ago, and the builder gave me ONE DAY to do what I needed to do to wire up the place. I ran 2...

Tags: Network technology, NETWORKING, Wi-Fi, Belden, Cat6, cable, network, big pipe, wireless, conduit, home network

Discussion threads 2005-06-16

Additional Resources

Ultrasone HFI-580

Unlike the Ultrasone HFI-2200s, which allow sound to be projected from the actual ear cups, the Ultrasone HFI-580s are a "closed-back" pair of headphones, so they hush outside noise, which prevents the headphone's sound from being heard by other people around you. That's good, except that a lot of closed-back...

Tags: HFI-2200, headphone, Ultrasone HFI-580s, Ultrasone HFI-580

Product reviews 2008-07-28