Category: Standards

Webinar: Understanding Fiber Optic Cassettes

By on • ( Leave a comment )

Understanding the role of fiber optic cassettes will become increasingly important as companies move toward 40G/100G, and managing the cable plant becomes more complicated. Fiber optic cassettes help manage the fiber connections by simplifying cable management without running new cables. In high-density network applications, cassettes ensure the efficient use of space and enable quick deployment, high reliability which eases moves, adds and changes and allows network administrators to refresh frequencies. In this webinar, we will review the types of cassettes available and how they will help the migration to 40G/100G networks.

Open Eye MSA releases 53 Gbps single-mode specification for data centers and White Paper

By on • ( Leave a comment )

The Open Eye Consortium has released its 53 Gbps single-mode specification which defines the requirements for analog PAM-4 solutions for 50G SFP, 100G DSFP, 200G QSFP, and 400G QSFP-DD and OSFP single-mode modules. The MSA aims to accelerate the adoption of PAM-4 optical interconnects scaling to 50Gbps, 100Gbps, 200Gbps, and 400Gbps by expanding upon existing standards to enable optical module implementations using less complex, lower cost, lower power, and optimized analog clock and data recovery (CDR) based architectures in addition to existing digital signal processing (DSP) architectures. A whitepaper is available to view and download.

TIA initiates work on new Single Pair Multi-Drop (SPMD) copper cabling, component spec

By on • ( Leave a comment )

TIA’s TR-42.7 Engineering Committee on Telecommunications Copper Cabling Systems (568) has issued a call for interest for document ANSI/TIA-568.6, initially titled, “Single Pair Multi-Drop (SPMD) cabling and component specifications.” The standard will address the need to support applications that use a bus topology with multiple branches connecting communication devices.

Webinar: Network Performance Beyond 100 Meters: Evaluating the Limits of Category Cabling

By on • ( Leave a comment )

In a perfect world, all network devices would be located within the standard 100-meter run length, But design and budget constraints don’t always allow for that, and there are instances when data transmission does need to exceed 100 meters. Lately, there has been quite a bit of attention surrounding cable products that claim to support data and Power over Ethernet (PoE) to distances far beyond the standard length. Do they merit the attention, and do they represent good network design practices?

The Future Of 5G May Be Bright, But Is It Secure?

By on • ( Leave a comment )

The standardization that 5G brings is good for interoperability, but if implemented poorly, presents a greater cyber risk to future cities. 5G will replace not just legacy cellular standards, but a multitude of other wireless and wired communication standards and therefore its scope will cover personal use, business operations, transportation and smart city infrastructure. This, together with its support for dense IoT networks – which could potentially have over 1 million devices per square kilometre – means an exponential increase in the attack surface and exposure to cyber attacks on an unprecedented scale.

Mixing it up with hybrid cables

By on • ( Leave a comment )

It’s challenging to make the right decision on passive infrastructure deployment in the presence of incomplete information on future transmission technologies and future network architectures. One tactic to deploy hybrid cables to account for potential disruptions that next-generation transmission technologies may bring. A hybrid optical fiber cable is one that features two or more different fiber types within the same physical construction to provide greater flexibility for the network operator.

TIA TR-42.11 committee issues call for interest on 2 new optical fiber projects

By on • ( Leave a comment )

TIA TR-42.11 Engineering Committee on Optical Fiber Systems (568) has issued a call for interest on two documents: ANSI/TIA-568.3-E and TIA-526.14-D. The revision to TIA-568.3-D will include  General Updates and any additional content deemed appropriate by formulating subcommittee. For TIA-526.14-D, the committee will develop guidelines for Optical Power Loss Measurement of Installed Multimode Fiber Cable Plant and add reference to bend insensitive MM fiber for testing with EF compliant launch cord.