What is an #OTDR and what does it do? This free poster answers your questions, and serves as a guide to OTDR trace analysis and Smart Link Mapper icon-based fiber link views. Learn everything you need to know about OTDRs.
Understanding OTDRs
Liz Goldsmith
Las Vegas Raiders Announce Technology Partnership With CommScope As They Prepare For Allegiant Stadium Opening
Walking into a new stadium or venue, it is easy to forget how much planning and infrastructure go into creating a great fan experience. Being able to stream video or post content to social media on your phone, along with 65,000 of your closest friends, requires an incredible amount of planning and execution long before any fan arrives.
Multiplexing in the data center
Right now, optical technologies comfortably support lane speeds of 50 Gb/s for multimode fiber with 100 Gb/s lanes soon to follow. In their search for bigger, faster pipes, network operators are focusing on two areas: improved optics and the increasing use of multiplexing. Of course, the two are not mutually exclusive. Many of the most attractive technologies involve both multiplexing and improved optics.
Webinar: Enabling 400G and Beyond
Transceivers supporting 400 GbE for #datacenters are nearing significant commercial availability, and #400G #coherenttransmission has reached the field. Join #Infinera’s Geoff Bennett on 3/25 for a @lightwaveonline webinar on the state of 400G+ #technology
Webinar: Performance Data ≠ User Experience
IT teams have more metrics than ever before. Yet according to Forrester Research, one-third of user complaints linger without resolution for a month or more. Do you have the right insight to understand and resolve user problems? In this webinar learn how the end-user focused technologies of Observer 17.5 simplify user experience assessment and troubleshooting to: Improve engineer’s ability to triage problem response and assign support tickets; Facilitate faster root-cause analysis with user-experience driven workflows; Ensure performance visibility in next generation 100 Gb data centers; Understand how users, by location or service, are experiencing an application.
March issue of FOA Newsletter is Available
In this issue of the FOA Newsletter, we had hoped to report about the giant OFC conference in San Diego last week and remind you of the CGA Damage Prevention conference next week in Palm Springs. While you are sequestered at home, we’ve provided some interesting things to read in this newsletter and many other places around the Internet in “Worth Reading” below. We’ve also got some good, free online training at Fiber U, including the new OSP Construction course or if you are preparing for an FOA certification course, any of the other Fiber U courses linked to FOA certifications.
BICSI reschedules 2020 BICSI EMEA District Conference & Exhibition
BICSI has rescheduled the 2020 BICSI Europe, Middle East & Africa Conference & Exhibition in Dubai from 13-15 April to 6-8 September 2020.
BICSI’s CEO discusses being at the forefront of digital transformation
John Daniels, BICSI’s Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, talks to CI&M’s Patrick McLaughlin about how BICSI members provide the enabling technology that allows organizations across all industries to transform their operations.
Structured Cabling Market Forecast, Trend Analysis & Competition Tracking – Global Market Insights 2018 – 2028
Value of the structured cabling market was estimated at nearly US$ 16 billion in 2018, and is forecast to record a CAGR of approximately 8% through 2028. North America remains the leading market for structured cabling, driven by the proliferation of data center project. 5G technology is expected to pave lucrative growth opportunities for the structured cabling market, upheld by increasing palpability of the technology’s trials and deployments worldwide.
Network Infrastructure: Utility and Applications
When we’re talking about network infrastructure, we’re talking about the IT services division, which provides a network where multiple different devices can connect. Hardware, applications, utilities and facilities all fit within the umbrella of the network infrastructure.
