VIAVI’s new whitepaper examines some of the impacts 5G will have on 4G services and the hurdles operators face, as well as offering advice and guidance for operators on how best to maintain their position in the 5G race, while avoiding degradation to the 4G QoS.
2020 marks the 50th anniversary of low-loss #optical #fiber, which revolutionized #communications. Read about how once the promise of glass for communications had been realized, specialists in glass science took on the task of making that promise a reality.
While we won’t know the coronavirus’ effects on the overall nature of work for some time, industry events are already feeling the impact. Officials are canceling, postponing, or converting tech events to virtual conferences…leaving show organizers, attendees, exhibitors, and sponsors scrambling to make alternative plans. Companies are also instituting travel restrictions for employees. This article includes a list of the events that have been called off, pushed back, changed format, or are being held as scheduled.
A new security method – developed for “multimode” glass fibers that can simultaneously carry multiple streams of data – is based on the quantum nature of light. Researchers used “wavefront shaping” to shape the light at the sender’s side so that the receiver gets the desired pattern.
The global Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) market size is estimated to grow at CAGR of almost 4% during the forecast period 2020-2023. The “YOY (year-over-year) growth rate for 2020 is estimated at 4.54%” by the end of 2023.
Tellabs and EXFO demonstrate a fiber-based enterprise LAN, designed using Passive Optical Networking technology, that can economically support one gigabit to ten gigabit connectivity speeds simultaneously over existing infrastructure to satisfy the ever-increasing network densities and capacities demanded by today’s modern smart buildings.
5G promises lightning-fast speeds, no lag time, and increased densities — a critical piece to make autonomous vehicles and smart cities a reality. So, why aren’t cars driving themselves yet? The answer is that even though the technology needed to transmit the data exists, there’s not enough power to get it there. Integrating distributed power to high-speed communications and IT nodes seems like a logical fix to the problem. This is valid in concept, but not so easy to implement. Because distributed power combines multiple renewable sources to provide flexible, efficient electricity, it can be somewhat difficult to match generation and consumption.
The FI-3000 FiberInspector™ Ultra from Fluke Networks allows fiber optic technicians to find contamination – the most common cause of fiber failure – on nearly any fiber connection. Technicians using the FI-3000 can get a Live View of the fiber endface instantly on their phone or Versiv Cabling Certification System and then use a gesture-based interface to zoom in on individual fibers or perform a pass/fail test in seconds. FiberInspector Ultra tests single fiber and MPO with SmartPhones or Versiv.
The seas may dry, and the mountains may crumble, but the Zip-Ties vs. Velcro debate is forever. Which team are you on?
“If you go proprietary rather than standards-based, you’ll rue the day,” says Glenn Sexton. “When we build to standards, we know interoperability is not going to be an issue. We have school-system clients where cable we spec’d in the mid-1990s is still delivering 100Base-T to workstations, to this day.”
