Typical data centers average 2.5 outages per year, with an average outage duration of 134 minutes. That works out to 2.8 million hours of downtime globally. This vulnerability reinforces the importance of […]
The overall market for optical transceivers sold into the 100G-and-above datacom market is expected to grow from $1.8 billion in 2017 to $4.6 billion in 2023, a six-year compound annual growth rate […]
BICSI, the global association for advancement of the information and communications technology (ICT) community, is pleased to announce Wes Johnston, CEO of the TIA will be one of the keynote speakers for […]
A web-based tool for helping customers estimate the total cost of 100 and 400 Gb/s connectivity in their data center is coming soon from Nexans Data Center Solutions. It will join the […]
Voice-recognition devices are ubiquitous in today’s society. Most smartphones have built-in voice assistants that can answer questions in seconds, and smart speakers like the Amazon Echo are now staples in many homes, […]
The introduction of 200µm coated fibers in the market has created a paradigm shift in cable and splicing technology because if you wnt to ribbonize 200µm loose fibers for mass fusion splicing, […]
Dallas-based data center developer and operator Skybox is building an expansive data center campus in West Texas called the Hodl Ranch, designed specifically for cryptocurrency mining and HPC workloads. HODL, originally a […]
Swedish researcher Anders Andrae predicts that by 2025, data centers will amount to ICT’s largest share of global electricity production at 33 percent, followed by smartphones (15 percent) networks (10 percent) and […]
Working with Passive Optical Networks (#PON)? You’ll need to figure out where and what kind of splitters are out there. Let Fluke’s Jim Davis walk you through the process. Read the source […]
2018 was another busy year for fiber. On this page we’ve gathered some of the more important stories for the year, stories covering topics that FOA believes every tech needs to know. […]
