TIA has honored longtime TR-42 leader and contributor Jonathan Jew with its highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award saying, Jonathan has dedicated over two decades to TIA’s TR-42 and Technical Advisory Groups, holding various leadership roles such as Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, and Editor. He has been instrumental in shaping TIA’s acclaimed data center standard, ANSI/TIA-942, and has made significant contributions to a wide range of premises and supporting standards.
Although blown optical fiber systems are helping to expand more reliable networks more quickly, one crucial element to reliability that cannot be overlooked is the importance of cleaning fiber-optic connections like splices and endfaces. For some cable installers, cleaning may not always be the focus, but it plays a vital role in ensuring the reliability and performance of fiber-optic networks.
The Telecommunications Industry Association has published ANSI/TIA-942-C Data Center Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard. Approved for publication earlier this year, the “C” revision of the 942 standard includes several significant modifications from the “B” version, including the incorporation of previously published standards documents, recognition of a new media type and connectivity, new requirements, new recommendations, and references to technical documentation published by other standards-development organizations. Read the full article at: http://www.cablinginstall.com
The newly authorized TIA-942-C standard will include several significant modifications from the TIA-942-B version—including the incorporation of previously published standards documents, recognition of a new media type and connectivity, new requirements, new recommendations, and more. Read the full article at: http://www.datacenterfrontier.com
Market Definition…
Open optical networking (OON) is an increasingly popular networking approach where the optical terminals are decoupled from the line system, enabling operators to operate optical signals generated by transceivers from multiple vendors over a dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) open line system from a different supplier. OON allows network operators to become more competitive, enabling vendor choice that supports a more resilient supply chain, faster access to innovation, and improved economics.With a growing number of high-performance coherent optical pluggables on the market that can be equipped directly in switches and routers in IP over DWDM (IPoDWDM) deployments. These bypass the traditional use of transponders, streamlining architecture and lowering costs.
Every serious installer who completes a structured cabling deployment will test all links in some way to ensure they are properly connected. But is it necessary to fully certify and document the performance of every link?
Certification testing offers significant benefits, and skipping it brings substantial risk. The following five reasons and expert words of wisdom make the case that it’s worth fully certifying and documenting every job.
In an article commemorating the APOLAN’s 10th anniversary, the group cites 100+% market growth over three years and a similar curve for the next three.
AFL recently announced it is investing more than $50 million into its fiber-optic cable manufacturing operations in South Carolina. The company said this investment “aligns with the Biden-Harris administration’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Internet for All initiatives to increase broadband access in the U.S.,” adding that it “will result in the creation of new jobs and support AFL’s portfolio of products compliant with the Build America Buy America [BABA] Act.”
FTTE is an architecture for LANs that uses optical fiber to bring data to the edge of the network where the network interfaces via ports or wirelessly through cellular or Wi-Fi with Internet of Things (IoT) devices, like cell phones, laptops, security cameras, machine-to-machine controls, building management systems, automated guided vehicles, etc. and the applications that support them.
FTTE is ideal for businesses that need high capacity and flexibility in their network. Optical fiber delivers the high bandwidth, low latency, reach, and flexibility required to meet the demands of developing applications, like next-gen Wi-Fi, high-availability A/V, and 5G within a single building or across a large campus.
