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• 3 major new launches in the first 2 months of this year: Terminal Block, Minitek 127 and two new High Speed I/O products (SFP+ and QSFP+)

• The article will also talk about “FCI’s Product Training Videos” (FCI used videos for the products launching). FCI product website (www.fciconnect.com ) has a special “Video Corner”, Youtube is featuring the videos but also FCI’s distributor partners feature FCI PTV’s and some online magazines

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FCI, a leading developer of connectors and interconnect systems, announces the expansion of its electronics product portfolio with printed circuit board pluggable and fixed terminal blocks that are ideal for industrial and instrumentation applications.

“Terminal blocks have been around for many years, but they are still going strong. They are essential for many circuit board designs,” said Koos Steding, FCI’’s global product manager. “Terminal blocks tie in nicely with FCI’’s other proven PCB connectors for board-to-board, wire/cable-to-board and rectangular I/O, which is why we decided to offer even more choice and service to our customers. Designers can now easily select FCI for most of their PCB interconnect needs.”

FCI’’s PCB signal and power terminal blocks are available in pluggable and fixed configurations in various pitch-sizes and wire sizes. The proven rising-cage clamp technology ensures long life and reliable connections.

As with all FCI products, its terminal blocks come with the support tools to facilitate easy design-in, such as the web-based Terminal Block Product Selector. This application allows users to easily navigate through various application examples. After selecting a product, the user is immediately directed to a dedicated web page with all product details including specifications, customer drawings and 3D mechanical models.

The terminal blocks microsite offers customers direct access to product solutions and provides downloadable information such as product brochures, catalogs and an online cross-reference.

A new terminal block catalog will also be available. The catalog provides information on FCI’’s full range of plugs, sockets and PCB connectors to support most terminal block needs.

• 3 major new launches in the first 2 months of this year: Terminal Block, Minitek 127 and two new High Speed I/O products (SFP+ and QSFP+)

• The article will also talk about “FCI’s Product Training Videos” (FCI used videos for the products launching). FCI product website (www.fciconnect.com ) has a special “Video Corner”, Youtube is featuring the videos but also FCI’s distributor partners feature FCI PTV’s and some online magazines

The article will be 1000 characters
FCI, a leading developer of connectors and interconnect systems, announces the expansion of its electronics product portfolio with printed circuit board pluggable and fixed terminal blocks that are ideal for industrial and instrumentation applications.

“Terminal blocks have been around for many years, but they are still going strong. They are essential for many circuit board designs,” said Koos Steding, FCI’’s global product manager. “Terminal blocks tie in nicely with FCI’’s other proven PCB connectors for board-to-board, wire/cable-to-board and rectangular I/O, which is why we decided to offer even more choice and service to our customers. Designers can now easily select FCI for most of their PCB interconnect needs.”

FCI’’s PCB signal and power terminal blocks are available in pluggable and fixed configurations in various pitch-sizes and wire sizes. The proven rising-cage clamp technology ensures long life and reliable connections.

As with all FCI products, its terminal blocks come with the support tools to facilitate easy design-in, such as the web-based Terminal Block Product Selector. This application allows users to easily navigate through various application examples. After selecting a product, the user is immediately directed to a dedicated web page with all product details including specifications, customer drawings and 3D mechanical models.

The terminal blocks microsite offers customers direct access to product solutions and provides downloadable information such as product brochures, catalogs and an online cross-reference.

A new terminal block catalog will also be available. The catalog provides information on FCI’’s full range of plugs, sockets and PCB connectors to support most terminal block needs.
• 3 major new launches in the first 2 months of this year: Terminal Block, Minitek 127 and two new High Speed I/O products (SFP+ and QSFP+)

• The article will also talk about “FCI’s Product Training Videos” (FCI used videos for the products launching). FCI product website (www.fciconnect.com ) has a special “Video Corner”, Youtube is featuring the videos but also FCI’s distributor partners feature FCI PTV’s and some online magazines

The article will be 1000 characters
FCI, a leading developer of connectors and interconnect systems, announces the expansion of its electronics product portfolio with printed circuit board pluggable and fixed terminal blocks that are ideal for industrial and instrumentation applications.

“Terminal blocks have been around for many years, but they are still going strong. They are essential for many circuit board designs,” said Koos Steding, FCI’’s global product manager. “Terminal blocks tie in nicely with FCI’’s other proven PCB connectors for board-to-board, wire/cable-to-board and rectangular I/O, which is why we decided to offer even more choice and service to our customers. Designers can now easily select FCI for most of their PCB interconnect needs.”

FCI’’s PCB signal and power terminal blocks are available in pluggable and fixed configurations in various pitch-sizes and wire sizes. The proven rising-cage clamp technology ensures long life and reliable connections.

As with all FCI products, its terminal blocks come with the support tools to facilitate easy design-in, such as the web-based Terminal Block Product Selector. This application allows users to easily navigate through various application examples. After selecting a product, the user is immediately directed to a dedicated web page with all product details including specifications, customer drawings and 3D mechanical models.

The terminal blocks microsite offers customers direct access to product solutions and provides downloadable information such as product brochures, catalogs and an online cross-reference.

A new terminal block catalog will also be available. The catalog provides information on FCI’’s full range of plugs, sockets and PCB connectors to support most terminal block needs.
• 3 major new launches in the first 2 months of this year: Terminal Block, Minitek 127 and two new High Speed I/O products (SFP+ and QSFP+)

• The article will also talk about “FCI’s Product Training Videos” (FCI used videos for the products launching). FCI product website (www.fciconnect.com ) has a special “Video Corner”, Youtube is featuring the videos but also FCI’s distributor partners feature FCI PTV’s and some online magazines

The article will be 1000 characters
FCI, a leading developer of connectors and interconnect systems, announces the expansion of its electronics product portfolio with printed circuit board pluggable and fixed terminal blocks that are ideal for industrial and instrumentation applications.

“Terminal blocks have been around for many years, but they are still going strong. They are essential for many circuit board designs,” said Koos Steding, FCI’’s global product manager. “Terminal blocks tie in nicely with FCI’’s other proven PCB connectors for board-to-board, wire/cable-to-board and rectangular I/O, which is why we decided to offer even more choice and service to our customers. Designers can now easily select FCI for most of their PCB interconnect needs.”

FCI’’s PCB signal and power terminal blocks are available in pluggable and fixed configurations in various pitch-sizes and wire sizes. The proven rising-cage clamp technology ensures long life and reliable connections.

As with all FCI products, its terminal blocks come with the support tools to facilitate easy design-in, such as the web-based Terminal Block Product Selector. This application allows users to easily navigate through various application examples. After selecting a product, the user is immediately directed to a dedicated web page with all product details including specifications, customer drawings and 3D mechanical models.

The terminal blocks microsite offers customers direct access to product solutions and provides downloadable information such as product brochures, catalogs and an online cross-reference.

A new terminal block catalog will also be available. The catalog provides information on FCI’’s full range of plugs, sockets and PCB connectors to support most terminal block needs.

Microsites offers customers direct access to product solutions and provides downloadable information such as product brochures, catalogs and an online cross-reference. Product catalogs provides information on FCI’’s full range of plugs, sockets and PCB connectors to support most terminal block needs.
All the product come with support tools to facilitate easy design-in, such as dedicated web page with product details including specifications, customer drawings and 3D mechanical models.
ETTERS, PA (January XX, 2009)— FCI announced that its SFP+ (Small Form-factor Pluggable +) copper cable assemblies successfully passed multi-vendor interoperability testing at the SFP+ Direct Attach Copper plugfest event sponsored by the Ethernet Alliance at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) in October, 2009.

Multiple physical host (PHY), network interface card (NIC), and SFP+ direct attach cable suppliers participated at the plugfest. The test program consisted of three phases: verification of host transmitter output and compliance of each SFP+ cable assembly to the SFF-8431 specification; compliance verification of the receiver input signal with each cable and transmitter combination; and 10 Gigabit Ethernet BER (Bit-Error Rate) transmission tests where each cable was connected between all combinations of PHYs or NICs.

“The demonstrated ability of FCI’s direct attach SFP+ copper cable assemblies to meet the compliance and interoperability testing requirements is a significant achievement,” said Jim David, global product manager for High Speed I/O products. “Users can be confident that our cable assemblies meet SFF-8431 performance requirements and in using FCI cables with equipment from multiple hardware vendors.”

FCI’s SFP+ interconnect system consists of connectors, EMI cages and copper cable assemblies that extend serial data rates up to10 Gb/s at the same linear port density as prior SFP systems. FCI offers surface-mount, pick-and-place compatible SFP+ connectors, single and ganged cage options, as well as passive and actively-equalized copper cable assemblies. All cable assemblies include the EEPROM memory map capability as defined by the applicable SFF specification that allows for cable-to-system communication.

The SFP+ system supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 8Gb Fibre Channel (8G FC) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) cable links with system functionality as defined by the SFF-8431 and SFF-8461 specifications. SFP+ interconnects have been successfully deployed in data center, networking and high-performance computing applications.

Primitive humans who inhabited the coast of South Africa 165,000 years ago and lived on a diet rich in shellfish could be the original ancestors of everyone alive today, a study suggests.
The people who lived in high caves at Pinnacle Point, overlooking the Indian Ocean near Mossel Bay, harvested and cooked mussels, used red pigment from ground rocks as a form of make-up and made tiny, bladed tools. Experts say they are very likely to be the ancestors of Homo sapiens, the anatomically modern human species which migrated across the world.
It is known that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa between 200,000 and 150,000 years ago but scientists are not sure where on the continent they first arose as a distinct species. The latest evidence points to the southern tip of Africa. Archaeologists working at Pinnacle Point identified stone tools and a red pigment used in ritualistic ceremonies which they believe could only have been used by humans showing “modern behaviour”.
The coastal community knew how to exploit the protein-rich food source of the sea and could have used this ability to migrate north by gradually foraging further along the coast, possibly continuing outward migration from Africa with the help of beachcombing.
“It is possible that this population could be the progenitor population for all modern humans,” said Professor Curtis Marean, a palaeo-anthropologist at Arizona State University, who led the study published in the journal Nature.
“There was no point in living in a coastal environment unless they were able to eat shellfish and, even in the harshest environment, it is still possible to travel along the coastline and still have access to food.”
The dig at Pinnacle Point unearthed the remnants of charred shellfish, intermingled with fine stone tools and ochre pigment, which has been linked with the expression of symbolic behaviour – such as burial ceremonies – in early humans. The tools included small “bladelets” which would have been attached to sticks to form a pointed spear, or lined up like barbs on a dart.
Charred shells suggest the shellfish were put on hot embers to open them for eating. The molluscs could only have been carried into the caves, and their presence alongside tools suggest the cave-dwellers were living off seafood, perhaps in response to the harsh environment, 40,000 years earlier than was thought possible. Human pre-history 165,000 years ago coincided with a long period of climate change, dominated by glacial conditions that caused major droughts. Only a few places on the African continent were habitable and food would have been scarce, the professor said.
Pinnacle Point would have been a perfect refuge in arid periods when life on the plains was difficult. This theory was supported by genetic analysis which showed the Kung San bush people – the original natives of South Africa – were one of the oldest human populations alive today.
Professor Marean added: “Coastal areas were of no use to early humans, unless they knew how to use the sea as a food source. Shellfish was one of the last additions to the human diet before domesticated plants and animals.
“Knowing how to exploit the sea for food meant these early humans could use coastlines as productive home ranges and move long distances.”
How we came ‘Out of Africa’
The ‘Out of Africa’ hypothesis suggests Homo sapiens emerged from Africa in a single migration between 200,000 and 150,000 years ago, from there moving to populate the entire globe. Modern man, characterised by a large, highly-connected brain and with a developed language and culture, first arrived in Asia about 100,000 years ago, then migrated to Australia 50,000 years later. Homo sapiens arrived in Europe 30,000 years ago, before populating the New World (America) about 20,000 years ago. Up to that point, the Americas were uninhibited by humans. Other species of humans, such as Homo erectus and Neanderthals, migrated from Africa much earlier but they became extinct after modern humans arrived in their midst.

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