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Liz Goldsmith

Utah to roll out connected vehicle data platform

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UDOT is partnering with Panasonic on the smart roadway network. The $50 million agreement includes the installation of intelligent sensors along sections of Utah highways that will collect and transmit data to vehicle-mounted equipment at speeds of up to 10 times per second. The data will be shared with a central cloud-based platform that monitors the information from the sensor-vehicle network and automatically generates alerts to vehicles, UDOT staff and infrastructure components such as traffic signals or variable-message signs.The system will monitor and share data in real-time to enhance safety and improve traffic flow.

Leveraging private wireless and IoT for wind farm operations | Energy Central

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There is great interest in the launch of 5G networks across many industries, including wind power. One of the reasons for the focus on 5G technology is that it will be used to connect thousands of industrial IoT (IIoT) sensors and devices. These sensors have special communication characteristics that 5G has been specifically designed to handle. What many don’t know, however, is that many “5G” applications can actually be handled by today’s 4G/LTE networks. This opens up some intriguing applications of IIoT sensors and analytics in the wind power industry not only in the future, but already, today.

Federal CIO issues new data center strategy

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The Office of Management and Budget’s new Data Center Optimization Initiative strategy leans on shared services and more streamlined data centers. Federal CIO Suzette Kent said she’s seeking two outcomes: maintaining “strong operating disciplines” at data centers that are essential to agency operations and ensuring “clarity of focus on closing those facilities which are not deemed as long-term mission critical.”

Openreach and OFS Announce the InvisiLight® Solution Bringing Gigabit Fibre Broadband Invisibly into the Premises

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Openreach has selected OFS to deliver innovative products that enable deployment in existing buildings with an almost invisible fibre as part of Openreach’s announced rollout of faster, more reliable and future-proof Fibre-to-the-Premises broadband to reach 4 million premises by March 2021. A major part of this target is to deliver effectively to Multi-Dwelling Units (MDUs), where the task of connecting multiple customers as quickly and as reliably as possible, whilst minimizing disruption, is a key challenge. The OFS InvisiLight® Solution utilizes EZ-Bend® Optical fibre that enables worry free bending around the many tight corners found inside buildings.

WheelHouse Advanced Data Center Solutions | Siemon

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Siemon has expanded its comprehensive offering of WheelHouse Advanced Data Center Solutions with new multi-compartment colocation cabinets and the V-Lock™ Cabinet Door Security System. Available in 600mm (24 in.) and 800mm (31.5 in.) widths and in 1000mm (40 in.) and 1200mm (48 in.) depths, Siemon’s multi-compartment cabinets come in 2-, 3- or 4-compartment configurations and in 42U, 45U, 48U and 52U heights. An ideal solution for colocation data centers leasing rack unit space to tenants that do not require

5G Is Coming, and It’s Fortified With Fiber

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5G will happen in the airy realm of radio waves. To get there, big telecoms have to harness underused parts of the spectrum. But there’s another crucial part underlying this system: lowly cable. Huge numbers of new transmitters will be needed to relay all that data to your phone, and many of those transmitters will still connect to the internet through fiber-optic cable—glass as thin as strands of hair carrying pulses of light. To make it all work, companies, including OFS Optics, a fiber-optics and cable company, are now being commissioned to produce millions of miles of new cable holding twice as many fiber pairs—two strands, one for the uplink and one for the downlink—as the old stuff.

Products to withstand harsh environments

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OFS defines “specialty” as any application not related to the transmission of voice or data over long distances, in campus settings, or within data centers. To help our customers with specialty applications such as the delivery of laser power, industrial networking, sensing, avionics systems, and short-haul communication networks.  OFS Specialty Products are ideal for applications that require products to withstand harsh environment conditions. Whether your industry is medical, industrial, aerospace, defense, or energy.

Understanding insertion loss and loss budgets

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Understanding loss means you can design networks properly, identify the good and bad in the network design, and then solve problems more easily. We are starting to see loss budgets get tighter and reflectance standards actually being enforced because speeds are going higher. Understanding how loss and reflectance work and how to work with a loss budget helps you to look and identify the good and bad in the networks design.