General Cable Receives Editors’ Choice Award from Communications News for GenSPEED® 6600
Highland Heights, KY, March 1, 2003 - General Cable introduced its GenSPEED 6600 enhanced Category 6 cable at ComNet 2003 in Washington, DC. The editors of Communications News, a leading publication for telecommunications, data communications, and network managers, viewed and evaluated GenSPEED 6600 and selected it as one of four Editors’ Choice Awards from dozens of different vendors’ products. The award recognizes market leaders within their product categories. Award recipients typically demonstrate innovative products that can contribute to the productiveness of date and voice networks.
"Editors’ Choice Awards are selected based on a product’s usefulness to enterprise end-users," said Ken Anderberg, Editor of Communications News. "Out of all of the products we reviewed, we believe that GenSPEED 6600 was one of the most significant because it offers the industry with one of the best performing Category 6 cable in its class."
"General Cable is honored to receive this award from Communications News in recognition of our market leadership in our core data communications product category — Category Cables," commented Paul Ratcliffe, Product Manager, Communications Products. "Our revolutionary design with a unique patent-pending tape offers the highest power-sum attenuation to crosstalk ratio and lowest attenuation performance for overall better signal strength and power."
About General Cable Corporation
General Cable, headquartered in Highland Heights, Kentucky, is a leader in the development, design, manufacture, marketing and distribution of copper, aluminum and fiber optic wire and cable products for the communications, energy, industrial and specialty markets. The Company offers competitive strengths in such areas as breadth of product line, brand recognition, distribution and logistics, service and operating efficiency. Communications wire and cable products transmit low-voltage signals for voice, data, video and control applications. Energy cables include low-, medium- and high-voltage power distribution and power transmission products. The Industrial and Specialty segment is comprised of application-specific cables for uses such as electrical power generation (traditional fuels, alternative and renewable sources, and distributed generation), the oil, gas and petrochemical industries, mining, industrial automation, marine, military and aerospace applications, power applications in the telecommunications industry, and other key industrial segments. Visit our website at www.generalcable.com.
Release No. 0411
03/01/03