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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.

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Figma Brings Up New Designs with Gen-AI Features

Recently, the world’s fastest-growing design platform, Figma, has emerged with multiple interactive, innovative, and breath-taking AI-backed features to its platform, including complete UI redesign and introduction to GenAI tools. The platform is now advancing to empower designers to make innovative designs more efficiently while adding state-of-the-art features to their applications.

The new Figma design features a new toolbar, rounded corners, and hundreds of icons that will surely enhance the overall experience. However, the platform’s key objective is to focus more on people’s work while ensuring that the platform’s UI is easy to use, usable, and approachable to beginners. It’s the third time the platform has come up with a new design since the closure of the beta version, a commitment to empower people with the most innovative platform with maximum functionalities.

In a briefing, Figma Chief Product Officer (CPO) Yuhki Yamashita showed multiple examples of how designers can create a new restaurant design. After Yuhki typed the prompt, the platform automatically created a mock-up with a menu listing and other essential features. However, the mocked-up app looked very generic, yet the CPO could tweak the design in real time.

Figma new AI features and tools can help users carry out small tasks more effectively and robustly. For example, Figma users can now use artificial intelligence-powered asset search and auto-generated text boxes when designing instead of vague “Lorem ipsum” placeholder text fields.

Specifically, all the newly introduced Figma AI features aim to allow users to test and try their ideas more efficiently while helping experts who are more experienced in using the platform iterate more promptly. Figma’s CPO says, “We’re using AI to lower the floor and raise the ceiling.” 

In its latest blog post, the platform also described the AI training approach in detail. “All of the generative features we’re launching today are powered by third-party, out-of-the-box AI models and were not trained on private Figma files or customer data,” writes Kris Rasmussen, Figma’s CTO. We fine-tuned visual and asset search with images of user interfaces from public, free Community files.”

Rasmussen adds that Figma trains its models to learn patterns and “Figma-specific concepts and tools” but not from users’ content. Figma is also going to let Figma admins control whether Figma can train on “customer content,” which includes “file content created in or uploaded to Figma by a user, such as layer names and properties, text and images, comments, and annotations,” according to Rasmussen.

Figma is also developing more practical tools, including in-app slide features that allow users to create presentations. According to the platform, its users tend to hack Figma to make presentations; however, this update will officially aid them in designing interactive presentations just like Google’s version of slides. Lastly, Figma has also added a prototyping feature, which will help users market their products or designs more effectively.

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