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root6's SI team off to Lagos
Engineers from the Systems Integration arm of root6 will travel to Nigeria in January to commission the installation and provide training at a new facility in Lagos, set up to ...

Graded Index fibre optics
In fibre optics, a graded-index or gradient-index fibre is an optical fibre whose core has a refractive index that decreases with increasing radial distance from the fibre axis (the imaginary ...

Extending Sony 8-pin camera remotes
How far can the camera control signals from any smaller Sony camera go? If you talk to Mr Sony it's around 50m (the longest cable they sell) - but ...

Tektronix WVR5200
During a manic day I was fortunate enough to bump into my old Tektronix mucker Tom Perry who had a new WVR5200 in his rucksack and gave me a quick ...

Sony BVM-E250 OLED broadcast monitor
I had an hour or so to set up a new Sony OLED grade-1 next to a Vutrix HD Pro-24 (their grade-1 LCD display which I like) - the Sony ...