...of the cost of your networking hardware, you can purchase a UPS that protects your network from blackouts, brownouts (low voltages), and surges—even lightning strikes! • To prevent power disasters before they happen, more than 70% of servers are...

Fibre Channel Technology • Fibre Channel Technology • What is Fibre Channel? • Fibre Channel is a set of communication standards designed to provide high-speed data transfer over a duplex, serial interface. It’s an open standard that supports ...

...A must to keep cool • Networking equipment —especially servers— generates a lot of heat in a relatively small area. Today’s servers are smaller and have faster CPUs than ever. Because most of the power used by these devices is dissipated into the ...

Ethernet Topology • Technology Overviews • Ethernet Topologies • Designing your Ethernet LAN with Black Box. • Key features of Ethernet topologies: • Fast, reliable throughput speed-10 Mbps. • Accurate transmission-CSMA/CD access method. • Eas...

Black Box Explains: Interface standards • Understanding the interface standards is a must. The Black Box explain series make technology simple. It provides you with a clear, concise overview information about interface standards, so you can ma...

OM3 and OM4 • OM3 and OM4 • There are different categories of graded-index multimode fiber optic cable. The ISO/IEC 11801 Ed 2.1:2009 standard specifies categories OM1, OM2, and OM3. The TIA/EIA recognizes OM1, OM2, OM3, and OM4. The TIA/EIA r...

Premise Wiring • Premise Wiring • Get wired - call Black Box today!. • You're surrounded. It's under the floor, above the ceiling, in your walls. It's alive with energy, headed straight for your computer, and you probably don't know a thing ab...

Branch Solutions • BRANCH SOLUTIONS • Manage your IT branches - without being on-site! • Central administration of IT branches and decentralized computing centers, as well as controlling a myriad of device types, are the big challenges adminis...

SFP compatibility • SFP compatibility • Standards for SFP fiber optic media are published in the SFP Multi-Source Agreement, which specifies size, connectors, and signaling for SFPs, with the idea that all SFPs are compatible with devices that...