...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...

...We help you build your Power and Surge Protection Solution. • Call a networking specialist • to learn more about how this Black Box solutions can protect your IT investments. • Black Box Explains • Surge vs. lightning protection • Power problems

...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 ...

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 ...

PoE Power over Ethernet • What is PoE? • The seemingly universal network connection, twisted-pair Ethernet cable, has another role to play, providing electrical power to low-wattage electrical devices. Power over Ethernet (PoE) was ratified by...

Soluzioni DSL • DSL Solutions • A local area network stretching over several kilometers? • No problem with DSL products from Black Box. While the extent of local area networks was greatly limited in the past by the tight restrictions imposed b...

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...