In late 2016, the Ethernet Alliance and the NBASE-T Alliance held the first-ever joint plugfest for 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T Ethernet products. The industrywide effort brought together 15 diverse stakeholders from across the […]
AFL, a leading global fiber optics manufacturer and service provider, was acknowledged for its FlexScan FS200-304 PON OTDR during the 2017 Lightwave Innovation Awards. With a score of 4 out of 5 […]
TeraWave™ ULL Optical Fiber brings submarine fiber technology into terrestrial fiber, making it possible to cable a fiber with 50% higher effective area than standard G.652.D fiber. Silica core technology enables the […]
There’s so much more to latency. In my latest white paper, I talk more in-depth about the speed of light and the leading contributors to latency in optic fiber systems. I’d love […]
The webscale company had plans to deploy 100G on a large scale between its data centers but was held back by the cost of transceivers. The widespread availability of QSFP+ and QSFP28 […]
In the last few years coverage on the data center industry has increased significantly. Topics like Big Data, Cloud and Virtualization seem to get all the headlines, often overlooking the underlying infrastructure […]
It’s March, and Data Center World is upon us. The team at Data Center Knowledge is gearing up for one of the year’s biggest data center conferences, which this spring is happening […]
There is no doubt that the African continent is an emerging market for telecoms, but it is also a challenge. One factor that is hampering efforts to deploy fiber deeper into networks […]
Macom Technology Solutions will debut a newly expanded portfolio of optoelectronics and photonic solutions at OFC 2017, 21–23 March, in Booth #1736. MACOM’s portfolio of products is addressing the high-performance analog interfaces […]
Lightower Fiber Networks has opened a new 30,000 square feet (2,787 sq m) data center in Philadelphia, next to its existing 50,000 square feet (4,645 sq m) facility.The colocation site will be […]
