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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.

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3 Smart AI ETFs For Intelligent Passive Investing Needs

AI ETFstp buy AI is expected to grow significantly over the next 7 years, and this is not an opportunity passive investors should pass up. Several top ETFs give pure-play exposure to AI without the risk that some bring. ETFs like The Roundhill Generative AI & Technology ETF (NYSEARCA: CHAT), The Wisdom Tree Artificial Intelligence & Innovation ETF (BATS: WTAI), and The Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF (NASDAQ: AIQ) all give broad exposure to the market with a dual focus on blue-chip leaders and the small-cap names that are driving the industry today. 

What is the opportunity? AI is estimated to be worth $100 billion in 2023 and grow at a nearly 50% CAGR over the next decade. The outlook is for AI to grow by 20X by 2030 with explosive technology, infrastructure, and services growth. Services will be the largest and fastest-growing segment by far, so blue-chip tech companies will likely be the ones to make the biggest gains over the long term. 

Names that spring to mind are NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), and Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE), which have all proven critical to the AI industry. Oracle is fundamental to IT infrastructure and data handling; Adobe is the same, with the added benefit of its “ubiquitous” interface and data-generating creative tools.

NVIDIA, the stock that got the AI market into overdrive, will be the #1 AI stock pure-play for the foreseeable future due to its chip technology and lead into AI services. The new platform for AI provides tools and infrastructure for AI developers and applications at all levels. 

Roundhill Generative AI & Technology ETF; Solid Blue Chip Exposure 

All the major AI ETFs worth owning include some of the same names, but the focus and mix are always different. The Roundhill Generative AI & Technology ETF focuses on blue-chip names and has little exposure to small-cap and start-ups. The downside is that it is the smallest fund on this list, with less than $100 million in assets to its credit. 

The fund also does not pay a dividend as the others, but the holdings mitigate that. The top holding is NVIDIA, followed by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG), the companies that are arguably in the best positions to benefit from all segments of AI over the long term. Outside of the top 3, the holdings include Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), Adobe, Marvell Technology (NASDAQ: MRVL), Meta (NASDAQ: META), and Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD), which round out the who’s who of top AI players today. 

Other risks of CHAT are its young age. While it is the best-positioned AI ETF, it is also the youngest and has only been traded for a few months. If the passive investment market doesn’t get behind this name, it could whither away to nothing and disappear. 

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Wisdom Tree Artificial Intelligence & Innovation Fund; Deeper Exposure To AI 

Wisdom Tree’s Artificial Intelligence & Innovation Fund is a larger and more established ETF going on 2 years old. The fund has about $145 million under management and includes NVIDIA and Meta Platforms in the top 5.

The other 3 top 5 names are Alchip, a fabless semiconductor company focused on ASIC and SoC designs, IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), which is a quantum computing company; and Synopsys (NASDAQ: SNPS), a design automation firm for the semiconductor industry. Unlike CHAT, shares of AIQ pay a small dividend which helps to offset the fees. 

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Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF; Still In The Early Innings 

Managers at Global X have said that AI is in the early innings and will be a significant driver of growth over the long term. That’s good news for the Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF, the largest pure-play AI ETF on the market. It has nearly $500 million under management and the most compelling portfolio.

The company’s top 10 includes Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta, but also Adobe, Intel, Oracle, and NVIDIA, which represent AI technology, infrastructure, and services with a bias toward services and the long-term embedding of AI into our daily lives. 

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