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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 Requests Comments on Proposed Revisions to ‘Alternative Risk Transfer (ART)’ Criteria

AM Best is requesting comments from market participants in the insurance industry and other interested parties on a draft update to its criteria procedure, “Alternative Risk Transfer (ART),” which is available on the methodology section of AM Best’s website until Feb. 20, 2025.

The main proposed update to “Alternative Risk Transfer (ART)” (to be renamed “Rating Captives and Other Alternative Risk Transfer Entities”) establishes a clear approach from AM Best to assigning Financial Strength Ratings (FSRs) and Issuer Credit Ratings (ICRs) to individual incorporated cell entities.

Changes in the draft of the criteria include the following:

  • Name and define cell companies and the various cell structures used in the insurance industry
  • Map out how specific factors of unincorporated cell companies and individual incorporated cell entities are viewed within Best’s Credit Rating Methodology (BCRM) and support a path to assigning FSRs and ICRs.
  • Set a baseline operational level for individual incorporated cells to be considered for rating assignment
  • Establish that AM Best analytical teams will likely use external parties to aid in the confirmation of a cell entity’s baseline operational and legal capabilities
  • Affirm that the weakest-link approach remains the path to rating unincorporated cell companies
  • Add an appendix supporting data requests of cell companies

AM Best does not expect the revisions to “Alternative Risk Transfer (ART)” to impact any published ratings.

This draft criteria is available at https://web.ambest.com/ratings-services/rating-methodologies.

When submitting comments to the methodology in-box, commenters can select one of the following three options: Allow my comments to be made public and include my contact information; allow my comments to be made public but keep my contact information anonymous; or do not publish my comments (i.e., confidential). Written comments should be submitted no later than Feb. 20, 2025, by e-mail to one of the following email addresses based on your selection:

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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