News and field notes
Company news, project announcements and practical writing from the engineers who specify, install and support infrastructure for organisations across the UAE.
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Infrastructure
Which ELV systems a UAE office building, school or hotel must have and which are a design choice: a matrix sourced from the UAE fire code…
Infrastructure
What a structured cabling certification report must contain: the test limit and configuration, wire map, insertion loss, NEXT and return…
Infrastructure
A copper cable categories chart from Cat5e to Cat8, what U/UTP, F/UTP and S/FTP mean and why a screen needs its bond, LSZH and the TDRA…
Infrastructure
What an ELV room is, how it differs from a tenant's IT room and a server room, and what each needs in a UAE office fit-out: space, cooling…
Security
ADMCC CCTV regulations now sit in the 2026 National Manual for Surveillance Systems. Which Abu Dhabi sites must comply, the approval path…
Workplace
LibreOffice works natively in ODF, ONLYOFFICE edits .docx, .xlsx and .pptx natively, Collabora Online puts LibreOffice in the browser. What…
Networks
Huawei and Cisco both cover campus core, access, Wi-Fi 7 and central management. What differs is licensing, management and UAE support…
Security
AI video analytics can run in the camera, an AI recorder or a server. What each tier does, what the UAE 2026 National Manual requires of…
Infrastructure
Is there a standard colour code for patch cords? TIA-606 recommends colour coding, but the colours it lists are for termination fields, not…
Field notes
One email when there is something worth reading: a standard that changed, a failure mode worth avoiding, a project worth describing. Nothing else.
