Monitoring and measuring even very simple parameters improves processes, reduces downtime and saves money. By Mike Fahrion, Director of Product Management, B&B Electronics.

  Jerry O’Gorman, B&B Electronics’ CEO, is a featured speaker at the Internet of Things (IoT) World Forum, taking place in London from 25th to 26th November 2014. O’Gorman will speak at 2:00pm 25th November on ‘The Promise of SWARM Intelligence: Distributed Intelligence at the Network Edge’. 

When planning for a successful fibre-optic network and cabling installation, several principles remain constant but often are overlooked. As a training manager, I see how easy it is to overlook some of these principles. Here are my 10 things to remember about fibre optics. By Susan Stanley, Training Manager, B&B Electronics.

Technology has made it possible for a single person monitoring a bank of monitors to replace a small army of roving watchmen, aided by IP cameras placed in locations where it would be unsafe or impractical to station a live human being at all. By Susan Stanley, Training Manager, B&B Electronics.

  While many headlines surrounding the Internet of Things focus on consumer ‘gadgets’, the real story will be industrial M2M connectivity. By Mike Fahrion, Director of Product Management, B&B Electronics.

Conel, a subsidiary of B&B Electronics, has expanded its family of wireless routers to include the Conel Bivias v2 industrial cellular router which will be available throughout Europe. Featuring dual, independent communications modules, the router can connect to two different cellular carriers at the same time.

B&B Electronics has appointed Gary Sheedy as the General Manager of its EMEA operations based in Galway, Ireland. Mr. Sheedy will manage the EMEA sales teams and have P&L responsibility for the EMEA operation. He will also take on an international business development role for B&B Electronics, drawing from his two decades of high-tech industry experience on the international stage.

Providing a one box solution for CWDM services, the iMediaChassis family of multiport chassis has been launched by B&B Electronics. The iMediaChassis family offers operators, ISPs, and data centre users a low cost and extremely compact, 3U solution for CWDM services.

B&B Electronics introduce a modular generation of its Carrier-grade, intelligent, four-port IE-iMcV-MultiWay Gigabit Ethernet media converter. Suitable for installation in AC or DC internal-powered chassis, this modular version is suitable for managing remote devices and central office network connections in security, traffic and remote-monitoring applications.

A Cellular 4G communication and monitoring system, for the oversight of equipment in remote locations, has been supplied to Quatro Electronics by B&B Electronics. The Quatro SmartTower required B&B Electronics to provide a new communications solution to ensure the remote tower’s transmissions were always on, to signal remote alarm conditions, provide monitoring and notification services to the control centre...

Using fibre to extend and connect local networks is now being explored, in order to overcome many of the drawbacks of simpler, cheaper technologies. By Susan Stanley, training manager at B&B Electronics.

B&B Electronics Board of Directors announce that Sean Harrigan has stepped down as Chief Executive Officer. Jerry O’Gorman, previously the Managing Director of EMEA Operations, has been announced as his replacement. The CEO’s office will remain at B&B Electronics’ headquarters in Illinois, with O’Gorman working from there as he assumes his new responsibilities. The company expects to appoint a new Managing Director...

The family of Vlinx Modbus Communications Gateways from B&B Electronics has been expanded to include the new MESP211. The MESP211 is a low-cost, compact gateway designed to convert Modbus ASCII or Modbus RTU serial signals into Modbus TCP Ethernet.

B&B Electronics Manufacturing Company, Inc. a élargi sa gamme de convertisseurs de média à fibres 10 Go (gigaoctets) avec le convertisseur iMcV-10G SFP+, qui fournit une vitesse de 10 Go dans un modèle modulaire SFP+ (“ small form pluggable”). Le convertisseur iMcV-10G SFP+ permet aux opérateurs de réseaux essentiels à haut débit, comme les FAI (Fournisseurs d'Accès In...

B&B Electronics a lancé sa plate-forme Wi-Fi AirborneM2M 802.11 a/b/g/n de nouvelle génération qui permet de fournir une connectivité Wi-Fi bi-bande sécurisée (2,4 et 5 GHz) aux réseaux M2M essentiels et robustes. Avec une compatibilité bi-bande et des options de sécurité robustes et adaptées aux entreprises, AirborneM2M est conçu pour permettre aux assembleur...

B&B Electronics launch the next generation AirborneM2M 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi platform to provide secure, dual-band (2.4 and 5 GHz) Wi-Fi connectivity to rugged and mission-critical M2M networks. With dual-band support and robust, enterprise-class security options, AirborneM2M is designed to enable integrators, VARs and OEMs to reduce the risk of obsolescence as enterprises both upgrade their security policies, and increasingly migrate their Wi...

B&B Electronics reveal that Bill Conley, M2M business development manager and wireless expert at B&B Electronics, was selected by conference organizers to address the audience about the oneM2M initiative during the M2M Evolution Conference in Las Vegas, Nev., August 27 – 29, 2013. Mr. Conley will co-present along with Richard Brennan, marketing chair of oneM2M, Eshwar Pittampalli, market development director of Open Mobile Alliance,...

The family of industrial-grade USB port protectors with affordable USBSSP2 “USB Sentinel” USB 3.0 surge suppressor, has been expanded by B&B Electronics. B&B Electronics’ USB Sentinel is compact and portable, joining in-line between the computer and the peripheral device to protect it from surges, spikes, and electrostatic discharge that can occur when connecting computers to equipment in the field and factors.

Suite à l’acquisition d'IMC Networks, B&B Electronics Ltd, annonce aujourd’hui la sortie du iMcV-Giga FiberLinX-III, un convertisseur de média Ethernet Gigabit intelligent. La gamme de produits FiberLinX, qui a remporté jusqu’ici un vif succès, va s’élargir avec l’arrivée d’un nouveau produit troisième génération, très attendu des clients : le convertisseur 10/100/1000 MB/s cuivre - 1000 MB/s fibre, pour la conversion des r�...

B&B Electronics launch the next generation of its Power over Ethernet and PoE+ media converters featuring gigabit (1000Mbps) speed. As PSE devices, the new PoE and PoE+ converters can power remote, high-bandwidth devices that require gigabit speed, but lack a nearby power outlet, over existing copper wire infrastructure (CAT5 cable or better), concurrently with the Ethernet data stream. Such high-bandwidth Powered Devices include PTZ (pan-tilt-zo...