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Liz Goldsmith

Corning Inc. donates 150,000 masks to hospitals

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Corning donated 150,000 surgical masks that will distributed to hospitals in the Southern Tier, New Jersey, North Carolina and Virginia Monday morning. Wendell Weeks, Corning chairman, CEO and president, was on hand to help unload cases of masks outside the Emergency Room a Guthrie Corning Hospital. Donations will be delivered this week to hospitals serving the Southern Tier of New York, including Guthrie, Arnot Ogden, and Cayuga Medical Centers. Corning Inc. donated the masks to help area hospitals during this nationwide COVID-19 pandemic.

Emerging tech offices come together on long-term plan to combat coronavirus

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Emerging technology programs across the federal government have come together under the common goal of fighting the spread of the coronavirus. AI and other tools such as supercomputing and advanced data analytics will play a significant, if not understated role, in the administration’s long-term response to COVID-19, the disease caused by this strain of the virus.

Webinar: Learn to choose Fiber Optic Cables for OSP Applications

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To meet the requirements of diverse networks, the choice of fiber and cable types has also never been higher. From different fiber types to fiber structures within cables to cable types, one size definitely doesn’t fit all. This webinar will provide a survey of fiber and cable types to help guide the end user towards a deeper understanding of how to choose cable types for a specific application. Attendees will learn about different fiber types that are used in various outside plant networks. They will also learn about different fiber structures, such as loose tube, ribbon, and rollable ribbon fiber structures. We will also discuss the pros and cons of different cable types in different applications

BICSI offers FREE online training

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BICSI is offering 25 BICSI CONNECT Courses at no cost until June 30. The courses cover a variety of ICT topics, including distributed antenna systems, data centers, intelligent buildings, healthcare infrastructure, trends in copper and fiber testing and many more. In addition, we have reduced other select BICSI CONNECT courses by 30 percent by entering the campaign code WBT30 at checkout.To access the complete list of free and discounted online courses, visit http://www.bicsi.org/online.