Even as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to undertake a mega project of shifting underground utilities from beneath roads to under the side strips in a concrete duct, a pilot project undertaken by the civic body on the arterial Mankhurd-Ghatkopar Link road earlier this year has ended in a disaster. Theft of utility wires from these ducts by locals has caused the civic body to consider redesigning cable channels the project. The ambitious plan was announced by BMC in November, when the annual roads budget was increased from Rs 500 crore to Rs 1,000 crore.

Chief engineer of the BMC’s road department RN Kulkarni said that the underground duct that has been built at the Mankhurd Link Road is similar casino online to a sewerage pipeline with manhole covers.

“Because of this, there are incidents when locals lift these manhole covers at night and steal wires by cutting out portions of it. Copper that is used for trunking these wires is an expensive scrap commodity fetching almost Rs 3,000 per kg. Because of this experience we have now approached the STAC to help us redesign the project in a way that incidents of theft can be avoided,” said Kulkarni

The material formulation aims to help prevent infection cable duct, within the refurbished neonatal unit at Birmingham Women’s Hospital, which treats more than 800 premature and sick babies every year.

The bulk incorporation of the silver ion additive means that dangerous bacteria such as MRSA, E. coli and salmonella are neutralised or killed, even under normal wear and tear to the trunking, such as scratching or knocking.

Prompted by the need for modernisation and an increasing demand for specialist baby care within the region, the £7m combined refurbishment and new-build project has increased the hospital’s neonatal capacity from 30 to 50 cots, 20 of which cable channels are for intensive care.

The hospital has a dedicated and proactive infection control team. “This type of antimicrobial [measure] is a bonus to us,” said Warren Hubbard, Head of Estates, Birmingham Women’s Hospital.

Then more on duct tape: “That stuff is kind of hard on your skin. After the 50th time it’s been ripped off your face, I could see the makeup artist cringe after every take. … I wanted them to use the real thing trunking, because real duct tape kind of reads differently on film. I had a horrible rash the next day. But it was worth it.

“The director let me improvise stuff and wanted to hear what I had to say. I always like that. He probably was happy when I had tape over my mouth and couldn’t make more suggestions.”

Parker, at 46, is at the top of her game, her screen sex appeal dialed up to a Showtime-induced peak. She has come a long way since cable channel her film career began with a string of earnest, sometimes earthy and sweet roles — think “Fried Green Tomatoes” and “Grand Canyon.”

As an interview, she’s long been a puzzling, stream-of-conscious delight. It’s a key to her appeal — the wide, innocent eyes, the occasional sneaky bad girl grin, the sexy non sequiturs. It’s why she’s perfectly cast as Sarah, who handles cable way pension problems for a “retired extremely dangerous” (“RED”) agent played by Bruce Willis in the new film, which opens Friday. Sarah is a great phone flirt, but is appalled when he kidnaps her “for your own safety.”

“The keys are written in a fashion that’s similar to the authentication keys you get when you buy software — they’re in an alphanumeric format,” Gore said. “So the easiest way to do it is with a key fill device. Any valid key that’s received will decode, even if the console is in a ‘clear’ mode, and the system will decrypt the audio.”

Another new feature of the console system is a built-in voter comparator that processes signals from multiple base stations. “That’s a wire duct component of the DFSI, and we’re supporting that,” Gore said. He predicted that this feature would be especially attractive to agencies operating smaller systems that in the past purchased trunked radio systems with just a few channels in order to support certain features such as encryption, unit ID and multiple talk groups on the same base station.

According to Gore, now those features are available via the digital fixed station interface at greatly reduced cost. This in turn enables agencies to build their systems using conventional technologies, such as voting, to increase their cable duct talk-in capacity and to fill-in areas where they might have less-than-desirable coverage.

In a statement, Allied Fiber says it is addressing increasing national broadband demand by providing access to new dark fibre, colocation facilities and fibre-fed wireless towers on a network-neutral, open-access basis throughout the US. The user community for these physical-layer services includes submarine cable systems, large international trunking and domestic wireline and wireless carriers and network operators, small rural carriers, cooperatives and cable television companies. ‘We created this system to address the numerous backhaul and capacity issues that exist in the marketplace today,’ affirmed Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber. TeleGeography’s Stephan Beckert commented that the project is one of the most notable US long-haul network rollouts in years.

Allied Fiber has implemented a new, multi-duct design for intermediate access to the long-haul fibre duct through a parallel short-haul fibre duct all along the route. This enables all points between the major cities, including wireless towers and rural networks, to gain access to the dark fibre. In addition, the Allied Fiber neutral colocation facilities, located approximately every 60 miles along the route, accommodate and encourage a multi-tenant inter plastic duct connection environment integrated with fibre that does not yet exist in the US on this scale, according to the release. Rory Cutaia, executive chairman of Allied, added: ‘This network specifically manages competing systems in a common, carrier-neutral infrastructure offering ownership and management of individual fibre pairs.’

The first phase of the system will provide a combined 648 dark fibres, 19 colocation facilities (700+ square feet each) and 300 tower sites all integrated into one system from one provider. With planned, direct connections to the submarine cable systems linking the Atlantic, Caribbean, Latin American and Pacific cables, Allied Fiber says it will also provide express routing of traffic through the US on the most advanced fibre types available. Building new, shortest path, physical duct and fibre routes combined with modern fibre is designed for lower latencies as well as higher capacities to be achieved between these points.

Allied Fiber has selected Michels Communications, Henkels & McCoy and Adesta to construct and install various portions of the system. Phase-one deployment is scheduled to be completed in early fourth quarter of 2010. The new 432-count, long haul cable coupled plastic channels with the 216-count, short-haul cable will be a composite of Single-Mode (SMF) and Non-Zero Dispersion Shifted (NZDSF) fibres.

The company is currently accepting customer agreements for fibre and colocation in the system.

Argosy has a wide complement of HD infrastructure products including a collection of video, audio and power cables, connectors, fibre optic cables and accessories, high density HD video patch panels, MDUs, routers, audio jack fields, rack systems, KVM switches, and Sonarae, its trunking audio monitoring system as well as an array of video accessories.

Meeting all the requirements of the UK Building Standards and IEE Regulations, the new Firecap sleeves are suitable for use with a wide range of metal and/or PVC electrical and plumbing products through a wide range of fire partition and floors, providing a two hour fire & smoke ‘stop’ through all common wall constructions and partitions. In their passive state they also provide cable channels a cold smoke seal as well as thermal and acoustic insulation.

Easy to install without any special tools or skills and highly cost effective, the new Firecap Sleeves can be easily retrofitted where required – even where there is access from only one side.

New Firecap Electrical Trunking Fire Sleeves are available to fit trunking sizes 50 x 50mm and 100 x 100mm and are also suited for use with non-electrical trunking.

The legislation amends ducts Part 5 of the Communications (Regulation) Act 2002. Under the 2002 Act, local authorities are the sole consent giving authority for local trunking ducting, regional, national and motorways.

The amendment designates the NRA as a road authority for national roads, including motorways, and gives it overall responsibility for the planning, supervision and construction of maintenance works on national roads and motorways.

“It is also beneficial for telecom operators to deal with one single point of contact rather than potentially multiple local authorities,” Ryan TD Siliconrepublic.com.

“It will also greatly streamline the process for getting access to ducting running channels along national roads and motorways for telecoms operators.”

The Skinny-Trunk line of products includes the Z-Mount, a metal wiring duct  bracket with moulded, angled MTP couplers that can be attached to the outside of any server rack or cabinet.

Fibre optic cables cable trunking  in the line can also be snapped into the back of the bracket and the Skinny-Trunk Harness can plug into the front.

All this can help to eliminate wiring duct  any need for an additional enclosure inside the rack, thus saving room for further expansion.

Peter E. Belyea, vice president of data centre and cabling at Cablexpress, said: “The Skinny-Trunk solution allows companies to save space, reduce insertion loss and future-proof their data centres.

“By using pre-engineered, customised lengths and reducing the overall amount of ducting cabling required, it really cleans up the data centre and helps reduce the amount of cooling required.”

APC recently unveiled a new server rack, the NetShelter SX Networking Enclosure, which offers better cooling efficiency by offering “superior airflow isolation”.

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