wiredinUSA March 2015

wiredInUSA - March 2015

INDEX

Engineering

appointment

RSCC Wire & Cable LLC

has promoted Altin Dabulla

engineering

manager,

reporting to Robert Canny,

vice president-GM of Exane

Products. In his new role, Dabulla

will

responsible

for

Exane standards engineering,

application engineering for

transit, fire safety and industrial

products including oversight of

the RSCC Exane engineering

support team.

Dabulla joined RSCC in August

2014 after serving as program

manager at Rexam PLC. He

previously held a position in

applications engineering at

General Cable, Willimantic,

Connecticut.

Network upgrades

Network service provider Indiana Fiber Network LLC (IFN) has

revealed a multi-year network expansion plan to add 100 Gigabit

Ethernet transport capabilities and improve network reliability

using a meshed architecture.

The company, formed in March 2002, is owned by 20 local

exchange telephone companies across the state. It provides a

variety of services, including fiber optic broadband, to urban and

rural areas in 52 Indiana counties.

IFN’s core network electronics upgrade will be implemented in

two phases. The first phase will cover over 1,200 fiber route miles

in northern Indiana, passing through (amongst others) Lafayette,

Fort Wayne, Anderson and Indianapolis. The second phase

will address over 1,300 fiber route miles in southern Indiana,

including routes through Jeffersonville, Columbus, Greenwood

and Indianapolis. Completion is expected by 2016.

The upgrade will include new ROADM platforms. “This

deployment, coupled with the deployment of multi-terabit optical

switches which will be configured to provide a meshed protection

scheme, allows IFN to offer an enhanced range of high speed

fiber transport services, including 1 Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit

Ethernet, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet to carriers, service providers,

and enterprise customers,” said Tom Bechtel, IFN’s vice president

of operations.

Council

response

Fiber to the Home (FTTH)

Council Americas has filed

its comments in response to

the Federal Communications

Commission’s

notice

proposed

rulemaking

the technology transitions

proceeding.

Heather

Burnett

Gold,

president and CEO of the

FTTH Council Americas, said:

“For over a decade, the federal

government has sought to

accelerate the deployment of

all-fiber networks, because

fiber is more reliable and

performs better than other

technologies. These networks

drive

economic

growth,

social interaction, and civic

participation.Butrebuildingour

communications infrastructure

with fiber is time-consuming

and expensive. It requires

communities, governments,

and the private sector to all

pull in the same direction.

“Thus, the FTTH Council and

its members are troubled by

any move that would make

building these networks

more expensive. The record

shows that all-fiber service

providers and their vendors

are behaving responsibly,

providing sufficient customer

notice and capabilities – and

consumers are not reporting

any adverse effects.

New recruits

The members of the Communications Cable & Connectivity

Association (CCCA) have been joined by Graybar, Hitachi Cable

America, Prysmian Group, and Teknor Apex.

CCCA addresses quality, performance, non-compliance, fire

safety, sustainability and counterfeit issues and how they affect

the structured cabling industry as a whole and all those served by

using the products. Programs range from the education on dangers

of non-compliant and/or counterfeit products, to the most effective

use of structured cabling in the data center, to collaborations on

best practices for the design of sustainable cabling infrastructure

projects.

The full list of CCCA member companies is now: Accu-Tech;

AlphaGary; Anixter; Belden; Berk-Tek; Cable Components Group;

comCables; CommScope; Daikin America; DuPont; General

Cable; Graybar; Hitachi Cable; Leviton; Optical Cable Corporation

(OCC); OFS; Panduit; PolyOne; Prysmian Group; Sentinel

Connector Systems; Solvay Specialty Polymers; Superior Essex;

TE Connectivity; Teknor Apex; The Siemon Company; and 3M.