Aboundi Taps IBEW Local 490 New Hampshire JATC for Certified Electric Connect Training facility

Aboundi Inc., a provider of networking solutions, has selected IBEW Local Union 490 JATC as its first off-site third party certified training facility for its innovative Electric Connect technologies.

 

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local Union 490 represents workers in the electrical construction, maintenance, and telecommunications industry.

IBEW Local 490 JATC is New Hampshire’s new Joint Apprenticeship Training Council electrical training center co-sponsored by the National Electrical Contractor’s Association (NECA).

 

The training center is a 8,080 square-foot facility with seven classrooms and a large lab to train all skills required to become a licensed journeyman electrician, from pipe-bending, programmable logic control to emerging technologies, including solar / photovoltaic and wind energies, according to the company.

 

Aboundi Inc.’s Electric Connect solution is designed to enable high speed Ethernet packets to traverse over many different transmission mediums. This cost-effective deployment solution is said to complement the existing structured networking infrastructure with CAT5/6, fiber and WiFi (News - Alert) as its Ethernet based IP applications.

 

“Aboundi’s Electric Connect technology is very impressive and this new technology synergistically complements our mandate to provide our apprentices with the ‘Green Technology’ knowledge in addition to our Wind and Solar renewable energy technologies program,” said Jonathan Mitchell, training director for the IBEW Local Union 490 JACTC based in Concord, New Hampshire.

 

“The ability to network high speed data over the existing electrical wirings opens up a whole new frontier for many future ubiquitous applications. Its greatest merit is minimizing the need for installing additional expensive CAT5/6 copper for much of the in-premise wiring in order to provide networking applications.”

 

“I appreciate the opportunities Electric Connect brings forth to our apprentice students," said Lyle Doughty, chairman of the IBEW Local Union 490. “This new technology prepares our students to meet more complex challenges in their future endeavors."

Mentioning about the benefits of utilizing the existing in-premise copper wiring for networking, Yu expressed that it will not only reduce the Total Cost of Deployment (TCD) but also provide the ability to accelerate many IP based ubiquitous applications, such as smart facility energy management, security / video surveillance, and audio video (AV) appliances networking.