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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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SFAA Legal Action Contributes to Significant Surety Victory in Minnesota

Protecting Public Infrastructure Projects and Surety Rights

 

WASHINGTON, D.C./ August 21, 2025  – The Surety & Fidelity Association of America (SFAA) played a significant role in a critical Minnesota Supreme Court decision reaffirming the priority of surety rights on public construction projects.

In United Prairie Bank v. Molnau Trucking LLC, the Court reversed lower court rulings that when a surety steps in to pay subcontractors and suppliers after a contractor defaults, the surety’s equitable subrogation right to recover bonded contract funds takes precedence over the existing security claims of a bank. The full Court ruling can be read here.

SFAA submitted an amicus brief supporting the surety’s position, which the Court cited in its opinion. The Court also noted the critical public policy role sureties play in completing public projects and keeping costs in check.

This case reflects SFAA’s ongoing commitment to filing amicus briefs in courts across the country on behalf of its members. Through this work, SFAA ensures that critical legal issues affecting the surety and fidelity industry are clearly presented to the judiciary and that longstanding protections are preserved.

“This decision reinforces longstanding legal protections that allow sureties to step in when contractors default, helping keep public projects on track, costs under control, project risks managed, and fiscal responsibility maintained for taxpayers,” said Julie Alleyne, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of SFAA.

Surety bonds are a vital tool in safeguarding construction projects by enhancing performance, ensuring quality, controlling costs and protecting suppliers, subcontractors and workers when a contractor defaults. To learn more about the economic value of surety bonds, please click here.

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The Surety & Fidelity Association of America (SFAA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan trade association representing all surety and fidelity industry segments. We promote the value of surety and fidelity bonding and its vital protections through advocacy, outreach, promotion, and education. The more than 425 member companies write 98 percent of surety and fidelity bonds in the U.S. SFAA is licensed as a rating or advisory organization in all states, and state insurance departments have designated it as a statistical agent for the reporting of fidelity and surety experience. www.surety.org

 

SFAA Contact:

Peter Roth

Senior Vice President

E-mail: proth@surety.org

Phone: 703.401.0676

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