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Liz Goldsmith

How to Splice Rollable Ribbon in the Data Center

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Adapting to new advancements in fiber optics – like rollable ribbon – does not have to be complicated. In this blog, Mike Cooper explains how deploying rollable ribbon can be an effective method of saving space. In data centers where fiber optic cables are starting to fill pathways, deploying rollable ribbon can be an effective method of saving space. It is also flexible, like a distribution cable, making it more durable and less susceptible to breaks. Moreover, rollable ribbon splices just like matrix – 12 fibers at a time.

50 Gbps Automotive Optical Ethernet demo

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With the increase in Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS), and the industry looking at autonomous vehicles on the horizon, the intelligent car needs growing bitrates to flow through its nervous system. The protocol of choice to implement the communication infrastructure in the car is Ethernet, and the 802.3 Working Group of the IEEE standardization organization is already paving the way to have multi-gigabit per second optical Ethernet in vehicles. A dedicated Study Group is already working on the future IEEE 802.3cz standard.

400Gbps data transmission achieved over DCI in a 75 GHz DWDM channel

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NeoPhotonics achieved two milestones using its interoperable pluggable 400ZR coherent modules and its specially designed athermal arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) multiplexers (MUX) and de-multiplexers (DMUX). First, data rate per channel increases from today’s non-interoperable 100Gbps direct-detect transceivers to 400Gbps interoperable coherent 400ZR modules.Second, the current DWDM infrastructure can be increased from 32 channels of 100 GHz-spaced DWDM signals to 64 channels of 75 GHz-spaced DWDM signals.

Smart Buildings Market 2027

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Global Smart Buildings Market 2020-2027 Report provides extensive research on the fast-evolving Smart Buildings Market. It also gives the competitive landscape of the leading companies with regional and Global analyses of the market till 2027. The market report is ideal for customers looking to gain actionable insights into the market which can assist them in furthering their business.

Simplifying Data Center Network Design with Universal POLARITY Fiber Cassettes

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Polarity means that a fiber optic link’s transmit signal at one end of the cable must match the corresponding receiver at the other end. While this concept might seem simple, it becomes more complex with multifiber cables and MPO connectors. Leviton’s new Universal Polarity Fiber Cassettes that help data center managers simplify things even further. The Base12 cassettes allow for the same interchangeable cassette on both ends of a Method B trunk in a fiber channel, reducing the complexity of a fiber network, ensuring consistent polarity, and streamlining network deployment.

New undersea web cable to connect major Asian information hubs

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The Asia Direct Cable Consortium has chosen NEC to build its new high-performance submarine cable. The finished cable will feature multiple pairs of high capacity optical fibers designed to carry more than 140 Tbps of traffic to allow for high capacity transmission of data across the East and Southeast Asian regions. As a result of ADC’s high capacity, the new submarine cable will be able to support bandwidth-intensive applications driven by technological advancements in 5G, the cloud, IoT and AI.

WEBINAR: The rise of Edge Data Centers and 400G optics – what will change?

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Join this free webinar to learn about the technological drivers for 400G optics and Edge Data Centers, what consequences these new technologies have on optical cabling, what Edge Data Centers are, and how potential connectivity solutions could look like. The webinar will also  address the emerging 400G optical market and the challenges faced on the connectivity end.

Splicing Efficiency Improvements in Ultra-High Density Fiber Optic Cable

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This White Paper investigates and documents each aspect of the cable joining and the ribbon fiber splicing process of ultra-high density fiber optic cable and identifies improvements in cable preparation, closure preparation, ribbon fiber preparation, and the mass fusion splicing processes achieved since a previous study was published as a technical paper at the 64th IWCS in 2015.1 By taking a systems approach to the overall splicing process, it has been possible to improve efficiencies in the cable joining and splicing process to realize additional system cost savings with this technology.

Taking fiber to the edge: Innovating simpler, but faster optical links to connect the edge cloud

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The move to edge cloud is resulting in a huge proliferation of local data centers. By moving processing power and services closer to the edge of the network, a wealth of new cloud-based applications dependent on low latencies and highly reliable connections emerge. Like their centralized counterparts, edge data centers need high capacity like long-haul transport links, but the networks they’re building are fundamentally different. Instead of a connecting a few distant central data centers, cloud providers are connecting dozens of distributed data centers in a single city in order meet the fast response times and low latencies required of new edge computing services.