Category: Structured Cabling News

White Paper: Make the Office Space Part of your Team

By 2030, millennials are expected to make up 75% of the workforce – and they are demanding a more productive and flexible work environment that enables activity-based working.
Smart offices are the key to meeting these requirements. They use state-of-the-art building technology to improve employee performance and reveal ways to use office space efficiently and economically. With smart office, the space you work in becomes part of the team. Download the White Paper to learn more.

5G Is Coming, and It’s Fortified With Fiber

5G will happen in the airy realm of radio waves. To get there, big telecoms have to harness underused parts of the spectrum. But there’s another crucial part underlying this system: lowly cable. Huge numbers of new transmitters will be needed to relay all that data to your phone, and many of those transmitters will still connect to the internet through fiber-optic cable—glass as thin as strands of hair carrying pulses of light. To make it all work, companies, including OFS Optics, a fiber-optics and cable company, are now being commissioned to produce millions of miles of new cable holding twice as many fiber pairs—two strands, one for the uplink and one for the downlink—as the old stuff.

Products to withstand harsh environments

OFS defines “specialty” as any application not related to the transmission of voice or data over long distances, in campus settings, or within data centers. To help our customers with specialty applications such as the delivery of laser power, industrial networking, sensing, avionics systems, and short-haul communication networks.  OFS Specialty Products are ideal for applications that require products to withstand harsh environment conditions. Whether your industry is medical, industrial, aerospace, defense, or energy.

Understanding insertion loss and loss budgets

Understanding loss means you can design networks properly, identify the good and bad in the network design, and then solve problems more easily. We are starting to see loss budgets get tighter and reflectance standards actually being enforced because speeds are going higher. Understanding how loss and reflectance work and how to work with a loss budget helps you to look and identify the good and bad in the networks design.

Webinar: The Healthcare Edge: Reimagining healthcare in an Internet of Everything enabled world

The IoT allows us to do business in ways we never imagined, and the healthcare industry is no exception. The technology of tomorrow will bring about changes in the way we diagnose and administer medical care. In this presentation we will discuss the impact of IoT on healthcare providers and dive into: The impact of the IoT on healthcare providers; The growing importance of healthcare at the edge; The issues and challenges facing digital healthcare; and The opportunities and solutions for the healthcare edge.

Cloud IT infrastructure revenues rise despite spending slowdown: IDC

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud environments, including public and private cloud, grew 11.4% year over year in the first quarter of 2019 (1Q19), reaching $14.5 billion. IDC also lowered its forecast for total spending on cloud IT infrastructure in 2019 to $66.9 billion – down 4.5% from last quarter’s forecast – with slower year-over-year growth of 1.6%.