Category: Fiber

PODCAST: CWA District 9’s Fiber Training Apprenticeship Program

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ICommunications Workers of America District 9 has been awarded a $5.8 million grant to expand an apprenticeship training program for fiber technicians. The new program designation for fiber splicing technicians is intended to support the state’s federally funded fiber broadband rollout expansion, as part of the BEAD Program. The grant will offer an employer boot camp program as a recruiting tool, where prospective employers can experience the apprenticeship program. CWA is also pursuing funding to reimburse employers for apprentice wages and benefits, and is assisting with providing tools and PPE for program participants.
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TIA White Paper: Resilience at the Edge

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When planning an Edge Data Center (EDC) deployment, the need to address availability of planned workloads to ensure resiliency is a top priority. The key characteristics of an EDC can be significantly different than those that top the list for larger enterprise or multi-tenant data centers. To help balance the costs and operational aspects of any EDC strategy, this paper outlines a number of critical questions that should be addressed to ensure resiliency at the edge.

Edge computing isn’t the future – it’s here. 5 ways edge computing is already transforming the cloud native experience today.

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Edge computing isn’t the future – it’s here. 5 ways edge computing is already transforming the cloud native experience today including: improving retail and inventory management in retail; manage the lifecycle of embedded devices; Edge is playing a critical role in the evolution of retail; leveraging knowledge of Kubernetes; securing remote locations and devices; and using predictive analytics in manufacturing

The growing importance of fiber management in the data center – DCD

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In hyperscale data centers and 5G networks, current fiber counts can be as high as 6,912 and even higher-count fibers are being manufactured. As more facilities embrace fiber-rich mesh architectures, the amount of fiber is only going to increase.
Managing the growing density of fibers and cables throughout data centers is becoming a full-time job. If not done well, the ramifications can be severe.

High-density connectivity packs fiber into data centers

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To accommodate modern networks with extreme density, manufacturers of transceivers have developed ways to increase the number of fiber connections in a given footprint. These transceivers require equally dense fiber connectivity. Recent technology developments have shrunken the amount of real estate occupied by dual-fiber connectors, as well as array-style connectors. This article examines some of the latest fiber-optic connector styles that accommodate today’s highest-density networks. Read the full article at: http://www.cablinginstall.com

Rearchitecting central offices into data centers

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Telecom carriers understand they must continually modernize their networks to remain, or become, industry leaders. Over the past decade, revenues have stagnated, and traffic demands have increased exponentially, exacerbated by people working at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. This pressure has accelerated the adoption of central office rearchitected as a data center (CORD) technology in telco central offices (COs).