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Our mission: Bringing practical business and technical intelligence to today's structured cabling professionals

For more than 30 years, Cabling Installation & Maintenance has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Our editors synthesize these complex issues into multiple information products. This portfolio of information products provides concrete detail that improves the efficiency of day-to-day operations, and equips cabling professionals with the perspective that enables strategic planning for networks’ optimum long-term performance.

Throughout our annual magazine, weekly email newsletters and 24/7/365 website, Cabling Installation & Maintenance digs into the essential topics our audience focuses on.

  • Design, Installation and Testing: We explain the bottom-up design of cabling systems, from case histories of actual projects to solutions for specific problems or aspects of the design process. We also look at specific installations using a case-history approach to highlight challenging problems, solutions and unique features. Additionally, we examine evolving test-and-measurement technologies and techniques designed to address the standards-governed and practical-use performance requirements of cabling systems.
  • Technology: We evaluate product innovations and technology trends as they impact a particular product class through interviews with manufacturers, installers and users, as well as contributed articles from subject-matter experts.
  • Data Center: Cabling Installation & Maintenance takes an in-depth look at design and installation workmanship issues as well as the unique technology being deployed specifically for data centers.
  • Physical Security: Focusing on the areas in which security and IT—and the infrastructure for both—interlock and overlap, we pay specific attention to Internet Protocol’s influence over the development of security applications.
  • Standards: Tracking the activities of North American and international standards-making organizations, we provide updates on specifications that are in-progress, looking forward to how they will affect cabling-system design and installation. We also produce articles explaining the practical aspects of designing and installing cabling systems in accordance with the specifications of established standards.

Cabling Installation & Maintenance is published by Endeavor Business Media, a division of EndeavorB2B.

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AM Best Names Three Finalists in 2025 Student Challenge Competition

Students from the University of Akron, Florida State University and the UW-Madison – Wisconsin School of Business have been selected as finalists for AM Best's 2025 Student Challenge competition, which gives undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to develop innovative solutions for risk management and insurance.

The finalists and their entries are:

  • Tausif Utchhash and Connor Donahue of the University of Akron for their idea for a dynamic inventory management app for homeowners, which would offer real-time assessments of personal property values and replacement costs to help homeowners maintain accurate inventories and coverage limits, as well as provide claim submission.
  • Tom Budz of Florida State University for his proposed insurance education tool for new and small businesses, which would help business owners understand, before operations have begun, how those operations could affect their insurability.
  • Hernán Burgos and Alexander Porte of UW-Madison – Wisconsin School of Business for their proposed tropical storm parametric microinsurance solution for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), which would provide coverage to low-income individuals and micro enterprises in LAC coastal regions using real-time meteorological data.

Each of the finalists will receive:

Each finalist’s recorded presentation of their proposed solution will be posted on AM Best’s 2025 Student Challenge website for viewing and electronic voting by insurance industry executives. Presentations will be posted from March 18 to April 4, 2025. The winner will be announced in Best’s Review on June 1, 2025.

“We appreciate all of the students who chose to participate in AM Best’s 2025 Student Challenge,” said Lee McDonald, AM Best’s senior vice president, publication & news services. “Every idea we received from students showed insight and innovation about an insurance industry opportunity. The challenge served as a catalyst for students to develop real-world ideas—and get feedback from AM Best experts, gain recognition for their efforts and expand their resumes with an insurance-specific project.”

AM Best’s 2025 Student Challenge is one of the company’s ongoing initiatives to support the development of new talent in the insurance industry. AM Best also provides an analytical development program.

AM Best is a global credit rating agency, news publisher and data analytics provider specializing in the insurance industry. Headquartered in the United States, the company does business in over 100 countries with regional offices in London, Amsterdam, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mexico City. For more information, visit www.ambest.com.

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