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Feel the Heat: Requirements and best practices for heat detectors
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Heat detectors for fires have been around since the mid-1950s. Since most residential deaths from fire are due to smoke inhalation, not heat, the development of smoke alarms was a great advancement in reducing deaths.
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Evolution of Optical LANs: From wired ethernet to Wi-Fi and PONs
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The evolution of local area networks (LANs) for connecting users indoors or on a campus has mainly been driven by speed. If you’re new to computer networking, gigabit speeds may be all you know, but it's taken a half century of LAN development to get us to where we are today.
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