John Daniels, BICSI’s Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, talks to CI&M’s Patrick McLaughlin about how BICSI members provide the enabling technology that allows organizations across all industries to transform their operations.
Value of the structured cabling market was estimated at nearly US$ 16 billion in 2018, and is forecast to record a CAGR of approximately 8% through 2028. North America remains the leading market for structured cabling, driven by the proliferation of data center project. 5G technology is expected to pave lucrative growth opportunities for the structured cabling market, upheld by increasing palpability of the technology’s trials and deployments worldwide.
5G has arrived – but 4G is still king: 4G was the world’s dominant mobile technology last year, supporting more than half (52 per cent) of global connections. Despite the emergence of 5G, 4G will continue to grow over the coming years, increasing to account for 56 per cent of connections by 2025.
The annual State of the Edge report’s third edition focuses on what impact edge computing is expected to have in the next ten years. It interprets the profound re-architecting of the Internet being driven by edge computing and adds over a year of updates from the edge community.
In its outlook for 2020, R&M has identified 8 key trends spanning across public, data center and local area networks.These include: Convergence, Single Pair Ethernet vs. Field Bus, Leveraging FTTX, WDM and Blown Microfiber, Leveraging 5G, Greater Importance of the Edge, High Density Data Centers, and Automated Infrastructure Management in Data Centers.
The smart cities market is expected to grow from USD 308 Billion in 2018 to USD 717 Billion by 2023, at a CAGR of 18.4%. The Smart Cities Market has witnessed substantial growth, owing to need for public safety and communications infrastructure, increasing number of government initiatives and PPP models for smart cities, growing adoption of connected and smart technologies in smart cities initiatives,optimizing the use of energy during peak hours, and citizen empowerment and engagement.
The global fiber optic connectors industry report is poised to reach USD 5.9 billion by 2025. Major include rising demand for increasing bandwidth, rising demand for data volume and transmission speed in data centers within the telecommunication industry.
“International Trends in Technology and Workforce,” a new report from CompTIA identifies cybersecurity readiness and the struggle to find enough workers with the right skills to meet their workforce as top concerns for 2020. More than 1,500 business and technology professionals from 14 countries shared information on their business priorities for 2020, as well as perceptions of emerging technologies, cybersecurity, workforce skills, professional development strategies and the future of work.
What do you want to know about the future of optical fiber? The Fiber Optics Tech Consortium will answer your questions during their BICSI Panel discussion.
To understand the issues most significantly affecting ICT professionals, CI&M conducted a survey in fall 2019 that collected input from professionals across the ICT industry. This article summarizes our findings.
