With the goal of integrating #5G with technologies such as #IoT and #AI, the Singapore National Research Foundation is working to build an open 5G Innovation ecosystem. Find out how digitalization is fueling this exploration.
Energy and telecom cable systems industry giant Prysmian Group is accelerating its integration with its recently acquired General Cable assets in South America and inaugurating the companies’ new Sorocaba regional headquarters in the region of Brazil’s São Paolo province.
In the 1996 thriller, Mission Impossible I, Ethan Hunt hacks the HVAC system of a building to breach its security control and carry out his mission. Well, the future has arrived. Since every Building Management System (BMS) is online, they can be reached and hacked via the internet to sabotage operations. The impossible has become possible.
Media converters are networking devices that convert Ethernet or other communication protocols from one cable type and then transmit it over another type, usually copper CATx/UTP to fiber. They are often used in pairs to insert a fiber segment into copper networks to increase cabling distances and enhance immunity to electromagnetic interference. They can be used to extend LANs, convert link speeds or to convert fiber modes.
L-com has added a new series of OM5 fiber cable assemblies to address high-speed data center applications. OM5 fiber cable is able to support short wavelength division multiplexing (SWDM) which reduces the parallel fiber count by at least a factor of four. This allows for the use of just two fibers (not eight) for transmitting 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps Ethernet, thus reducing overall fiber counts typically required for higher speed applications.
Is OM5 needed? Last year the IEEE P802.3cm task force began working on a new standard for 400 Gb/s over multimode fiber that in addition to 400GBASE-SR8 over eight lanes (16 fibers total) using 24- or 16-fiber MPO connectors also includes 400GBASE-SR4.2 that operates over four two-short wavelength division multiplexed (SWDM) lanes (8 fibers total) using a standard 12-fiber MPO. Since OM5 is optimized for SWDM, this could finally push it into the limelight. However, since the new standard leverages existing two-wavelength technology that will ensure operation up to 100 meters of OM4 cabling, the question remains as to whether people will make the leap.
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Ericsson plans to build its first fully-automated smart factory in the U.S. that will produce advanced antenna system radios for 5G deployments in North America. Ericsson’s direct investment is about $100 million, which will kick in during the third quarter of this year, the company told FierceWireless. The Swedish vendor said the radios will be designed to boost network capacity and coverage, including in rural areas, as well as 5G radios for urban areas.
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