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Quabbin Wire's Industrial Ethernet Product Line Now Offers Three Cable Jacket Options
August 29, 2007 - Quabbin's IE cable product line now offers three different jacketing options, each providing different mechanical and electrical properties. This allows balancing cable characteristics for the most cost-effective solution for each installation.

Low Smoke Zero Halogen Patch Cables for European and North American Applications
February 19, 2007 - Quabbin Wire has developed a low smoke zero halogen jacketing material for their stranded local area network (LAN) patch cables. These cables, insulated with polyolefin and jacketed with this new LSZH compound, exceed various TIA, UL, CSA, and European specification requirements.

Recycling Efforts Applauded
January 26, 2009 - Quabbin Wire's employees enthusiastically participated in an ongoing effort to recycle as many items as possible last year.  They were extremely successful.

New 600V-Trol TM Cables Typically Provide 60% Space Saving
August 28, 2006 - Quabbin Wire's 600V-Trol TM cables provide significant cost and space saving for interconnection of industrial control and instrumentation systems. The cables are rated 105 degrees C with a UL Style 2586 appliance wire listing (AWM), and are also RoHS compliant.

DataMax® 10Gig Shielded or Unshielded Cable Minimizes Alien Crosstalk Noise
July 15, 2006 - Quabbin Wire's next-generation patch cable, DataMax® 10Gig, minimizes Alien Crosstalk (AXT) in Category 6A channels. AXT is the critical noise that must be controlled to successfully implement 10GBase-T Ethernet on copper networks.

Quabbin Wire Introduces DataMax® Extreme IE Cable
June 19, 2006 - Quabbin Wire & Cable Co., Inc. announces the development of durable jacketed cables for manufacturing tough, reliable Industrial Ethernet patch cords. These cords exceed the NEXT and RL electrical requirements for Category 5e and 6 and offer outstanding mechanical attributes.

Patch Cord Testing Project Proves Most Cords Fail
May 20, 2003 - Quabbin Wire & Cable Co., Inc. announces the completion of an extensive evaluation of Category 5e and 6 LAN patch cords. Open market cords purchased from distributors, assemblers, catalog houses and retail, were tested to the full cord requirements as defined by the TIA.

New DataMax® 6 Horizontal Cable Provides Cost Saving and Category 6 Performance
June 4, 2002 - Quabbin Wire & Cable introduces a new cost saving horizontal cable that complies with TIA/EIA 568-B.2-1 standard for Category 6. The cable is less expensive, has smaller diameter, is more flexible, easy to install, and does not use a spline or other pair separator.

Breakthrough DataMax® 6 Patch Cable Introduced
February 2, 2002 - Quabbin Wire & Cable is now producing a stranded patch cable specifically designed and electrically tuned for use with the very best Category 6 hardware and horizontal cable systems. Cords assembled with this cable produce positive ACR (Attenuation to Crosstalk Ratio) channel performance at frequencies that often exceed 375 MHz.

Quabbin Introduces Jacketed DS-3 Multi-Coaxial Bundled Cable
November 1, 2001 - Quabbin Wire introduces bundled and jacketed groups of DS-3 cables, containing up to 24 individual Type 735A coaxial components. Each coax is capable of transmitting 672 channels with a bandwidth of 44.7 MHz for use within ISP facilities, cellular antenna, complex wide-area-networks, and Telco central offices.

T-1 Install Cable for Use At and Beyond the Premise Demarc
September 28, 2001 - Quabbin introduces DataMax® T Line cable for true T-1 signaling in the "last mile" of a commercial T-1 installation. Installers and end-users may confidently extend T-1 transmission and signaling from the local Telco to customer's CSU/DSU devices.

DataMax® 5e Screened Patch Cables Meet Category 5e Requirements
August 30, 2001 - With Quabbin's screened (shielded) patch cable, it is now possible to build an end-to-end shielded LAN compliant with TIA/EIA 568B and European requirements.

Quabbin Introduces Type 735A Coaxial Cable Family Designed for DS-3 (T-3) Multiplexing
November 8, 2000 - Quabbin Wire & Cable Co., Inc. has introduced a family of double shielded Type 735A coaxial cables designed for efficient DS-3 digital signaling. The explosive growth of Internet connections, complex wide area networks and exponentially increasing data streams through telco infrastructure has created huge demand for these cables.

Quabbin Introduces Top Performing Patch Cable
February 10, 1999 - Quabbin Wire & Cable, North America's largest patch cable manufacturer, has introduced a new patch cable that exceeds proposed TIA/EIA 568A standards for Category 6 performance.