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Liz Goldsmith

Atlanta’s Emory Healthcare and Verizon team to debut 5G healthcare lab

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The Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub, lit with Verizon’s 5G ultra wideband service, is exploring how the superior bandwidth, super-fast speeds and ultra-low latency of 5G could redefine patient care with real-time data analytics, supporting solutions such as connected ambulances, remote physical therapy and next-generation medical imaging. EHIH will be able to test how 5G could enhance augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications for medical training, enable telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, and provide point of care diagnostic and imaging systems from the ambulance to the ER.

TiniFiber takes BICSI honors for 144-strand OS2 micro armored fiber-optic cable

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TiniFiber was awarded first place in the “Copper and Fiber” category for displayed products during the BICSI 2020 Winter Exhibition. Honored was TiniFiber’s Micro Armored 144 Strand Fiber Optic Cable, for offering the industry’s smallest 144 strand OS2 fiber-optic cabling innovation, incorporating the company’s U.S. patented micro armored stainless-steel coil innovation around its inner jacket.

All Fiber Roads Divisible by 2 and 8

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By now you’ve probably heard of 8-fiber MPO plug and play solutions available on the market, which are ideal for Gigabit (40GBASE-SR4) and 100 Gigabit (100GBASE-SR4) applications that use 8 fibers with 4 transmitting and 4 receiving at either 10 or 25 Gb/s. Unlike 12-fiber MPO solutions where 4 of the 12 fibers go unused, 8-fiber MPO solutions offer 100% fiber utilization in these applications. When looking ahead to future fiber applications, 8-fiber MPO solutions continue to make the most sense because all future duplex, parallel optic and WDM-based fiber applications are divisible by either 2 or 8 fibers – not 12.

Protecting cabling and equipment from the hyperscale to the edge

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In any type of computing environment, the housing, protection and management of network connections is essential for uptime and performance. The methods for providing that protection and management, as well as the products and technologies for doing so, can vary significantly depending on the computing environment in which they will reside. This article looks at options for cabling and network-equipment housing, protection, and management in different environments.

Scaling enterprise IoT solutions using edge computing and the cloud

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Just a few years ago, many expected all the Internet of Things (IoT) to move to the cloud—and much of the consumer-connected IoT indeed lives there—but one of the key basics of designing and building enterprise-scale IoT solutions is to make a balanced use of edge and cloud computing. Compared to cloud-only solutions, blended solutions that incorporate edge can alleviate latency, increase scalability, and enhance access to information so that better, faster decisions can be made, and enterprises can become more agile as a result.

Charting Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak’s impact on the global high-tech industry

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TrendForce notes that the largest concentration of the fiber optics supply chain can be found in China’s Wuhan province, home to Fiberhome, YOFC, and Accelink, among other companies, which together comprise 25% of global optical fiber production capacity. The following analysis shows the results of Taiwan-based TrendForce’s investigations of key component and other downstream high technology industries, under the impact of the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, with the latest data as of February 14, 2020.

Difference Between Single-Mode and Multi-Mode Fiber Cabling

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Fiber Optic cabling comes in two basic modes, Single-Mode and Multi-mode. While both modes have different characteristics and serve different purposes, their structural makeup is still the same; an inner core made of purified silica glass, an outer glass known as cladding, and protection by buffer or jacket. For those designing industrial networking systems, a thorough understanding of the differences between single-mode and multimode fiber cabling is vital.