David J. Asta, a resident of Palatine, IL, died suddenly on Monday, April 1 at age 58. Asta was a senior data center applications engineer with Panduit and a member of multiple […]
David J. Asta, 1960-2019
How 5G Will Transform the Way We Live and Work
While the rollout of 5G is already underway in South Korea and select U.S. cities, the most dramatic changes are still some years away. Many will come with risks and painful disruptions. […]
Is your stadium ready to support 5G?
As IoT continues to take hold in stadiums and arenas, wireless networks are connecting growing numbers of people – and the devices they carry, which connect users to unlimited data. Mobile and […]
Multimode fiber provides the path to bring 400G to the Cloud
New standards for 400-Gb/s Ethernet will operate over 4- and 8-fiber-pair constructions of multimode fiber, leveraging PAM-4 signaling. The IEEE is introducing 400GBASE-SR4.2 and 400BBase-SR8 to support the short reach application space […]
Field Testing and Troubleshooting of PON LAN Networks
Join Fluke Network’s Jim Davis for a webinar on field testing and troubleshooting PON LAN Networks per IEC 61280-4. Topics include inspection and cleaning (APC vs. UPC), PON Basics, understanding loss budgets, […]
Network Cable Standards: TIA 568 vs ISO 11801 vs EN 50173
Generally, there are three important standards mostly used in generic cabling system (GCS). They are TIA 568, ISO 11801 and EN 50173. Then, what are they? What are their differences? How can […]
The Improbable Rise of Huawei
Huawei has, by most accounts, taken the lead in the race to develop one of the modern world’s most important technologies: fifth-generation mobile telephony. Unlike its various predecessors, which simply offered consumers […]
Smart Buildings: Forming The Foundation Of Smart Cities
It’s virtually impossible to imagine a city without conjuring an image of its skyline, or at the very least, a vista of the buildings that populate it. Likewise, in smart cities, smart […]
Setting the Bar for Data Center Infrastructure
Investment into data centers is not showing any signs of slowing down anytime soon, as more and more entities are attracted to the asset class, both from the domestic and the foreign […]
White Paper: Fiber Contamination, Cleaning and Inspection. Introduction.
Despite industry best practice of inspecting and cleaning fiber optic endfaces, contaminated connections remain the number one cause of fiber related problems and test failures in data centers, campus and other enterprise […]
