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Cabling's Comeback

April 1, 2005
More speed! is the IT manager's rallying cry these days, and it may be enough to pull structured cabling out of a five-year slump. A new study from FTM Consulting, GbE Fiber & Copper Cabling Systems: 2005, predicts that growing demand for Gigabit Ethernet on campuses and in data centers will fuel a 25.7% increase in the market through 2010. Get your wire dispensers ready.

“More speed!” is the IT manager's rallying cry these days, and it may be enough to pull structured cabling out of a five-year slump. A new study from FTM Consulting, “GbE Fiber & Copper Cabling Systems: 2005,” predicts that growing demand for Gigabit Ethernet on campuses and in data centers will fuel a 25.7% increase in the market through 2010. Get your wire dispensers ready.

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