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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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Best’s Special Report: U.S. Life/Annuity Industry Sees 13% Net Income Decline in 2024

The U.S. life/annuity (L/A) industry posted a 13% decline in net income to $33.3 billion in 2024, driven partly by a rise in expenses of nearly 15%, according to AM Best. These preliminary results are detailed in a new Best’s Special Report, titled, “First Look: 2024 Life/Annuity Financial Results,” and the data is derived from companies’ annual statutory statements received as of March 17, 2025, representing an estimated 99% of the total L/A industry’s premiums and annuity considerations.

According to the report, the L/A industry’s total income increased by 12% from the previous year, driven by increases of approximately 20% in premiums and annuity considerations and nearly 11% in net investment income. However, a spike in surrenders by $125.5 billion, which led to the overall increase in industry expenses, resulted in the pretax net operating gain falling year over year by just under 28% to $48.2 billion. Despite net realized capital losses falling by nearly 58%, the L/A industry still experienced the double-digit percentage drop in net income.

Capital and surplus at year-end 2024 increased slightly from the end of the previous year to $513.3 billion, as a combined $56.4 billion in net income, contributed capital and other changes in surplus were reduced by $47.1 billion, owing to changes in unrealized losses, asset valuation reserves and stockholder dividends.

To access the full copy of this special report, please visit http://www3.ambest.com/bestweek/purchase.asp?record_code=352643.

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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