Anixter Unveils Comprehensive Communications Products Catalog.Business/High-Tech Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com SKOKIE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2000 Anixter the world's leading provider of communications equipment and cabling, has published "Communications Products 2001," a catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. containing over 12,000 products, including 1200 new items, which are highlighted throughout 11 product categories. The product categories include sections on copper and fiber solutions, networking and industrial products, test equipment and voice products. Each section contains an extensive table of contents that identifies products by vendor and contains updates on the newest developments in LANs and WANs. The comprehensive, 970-page catalog also includes a technical appendix consisting of a reference guide consolidating key aspects of ANSI/TIA/EIA568-A, 569, 606 and 607 standards. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Steve Keller, Anixter's Vice President of Marketing, new products and technological developments have created a demand for an up-to-date catalog to serve as a concise reference guide for the industry. "Fast-paced changes in communications called for a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. source of information that could be easily referenced," Keller explained. "That's why, in addition to over 1200 new products, we've included features in the catalog such as the Technical Appendix and the most extensive glossary A term used by Microsoft Word and adopted by other word processors for the list of shorthand, keyboard macros created by a particular user. See glossaries in this publication and The Computer Glossary. in the industry." The catalog also includes more than 30 pages about Anixter Levels -- the cabling and component testing program that exceeds all existing industry standards and ensures cabling performance. Detailed are the latest Levels Lab discoveries about active testing See testing types. and the five Levels XP solutions that allow optimum network efficiency and increased productivity. The Anixter Communications Products 2001 Catalog can be ordered direct through your local Anixter sales office and will also be available soon on Anixter's website at www.anixter.com. Anixter Inc. is the worlds leading distributor of data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. products and electrical wire and cable. Founded in 1957, the company employs more than 5,000 people in 180 cities throughout the world. Anixter's customers benefit from the companies expertise in market specialization and have access to best in-class products through Anixter's partnerships with the worlds leading manufacturers. Anixter trades at NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AXE. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.102300/bb19 |
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