A Passive Optical LAN design provides greater flexibility to right-size connectivity across the enterprise LAN – inside buildings and across an extended campus. Optical LAN better aligns space, energy, heat, noise, radiation, and costs with your real bandwidth requirements, which honestly is not going to be 10Gbps to everything.
At first glance, space and oil seem like two completely unrelated and divergent industries. However, these industries face many of the same goals and challenges. The oil & gas industry is constantly looking for ways to cost-effectively meet regulatory standards, improve safety and get more out of their production process and facilities. NASA does the same. They are also are both challenged with working in harsh, remote, and often unexplored environments. Advanced sensors are becoming increasingly more important in both industries. As the internet of things (IoT) continues to grow, new technologies are being developed every day by companies that want to stay competitive.
Multimode optical fiber is the most common media choice for both backbone and horizontal distribution within the local area network (LAN) including campuses, buildings, and data centers. This article take a closer look at the types of multimode fiber options based on bandwidth and distance needs for 1 Gb/s, 10 Gb/s, 40 Gb/s and 100 Gbp/s networks.
Edge is where connection occurs. It’s the place people, devices or “things” access the network. If there is no connection, it’s not edge. Connectivity will play a critical role at the edge. The connectivity can be wireless, fiber or copper in different forms. The value of edge is data, in many cases real-time data. The majority of data at the edge is processed locally. The rest of the data can be passed to the data center for further compute and storage. If there is no data, it’s not edge. Finally, the interactions at the edge go beyond just human beings and the networks. Devices or “things” play important roles at the edge.
Siemon’s Why Edge? Why Now? white paper explores the solution to reducing latency and the benefits from edge data centers, including fifth generation (5G) networks, Internet of things and Industrial Internet of things devices, autonomous vehicles, virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence and machine learning, data analytics, and video streaming and surveillance.
As customer demand for extreme high-capacity, low-latency data transport continues to grow, CenturyLink is expanding the company’s intercity network by adding 4.7 million miles of Corning fiber, making it the largest ultra-low-loss fiber network in North America. The first phase of this overbuild fiber network, completed in June, connects more than 50 major cities throughout the U.S.
With hyperscale data centers driving the need for extreme high density fiber cabling, the market has responded with new products that pack up to 3,456 fibers into a single cable. Such density affects the installation of these cables. This article overviews some of the high-density fiber-optic cables available today and their suppliers’ comments and recommendations regarding installation practices.
Vision Technologies designed, installed, and commissioned a unified WiFi and passive optical network (PON) system for The Wharf, a mile-long, 24-acre, $2.5-billion mixed-use development along the Potomac River in Washington D.C. The system provides state-of-the-art, pervasive 802.11ac wireless service to residents, workers, and guests traversing the outdoor, garage, and 6000-person indoor-concert-venue areas. The entire implementation, testing, and commissioning was accomplished on a fast-track 30-day schedule.
The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to penetrate the market, with an abundance of smart devices that are saturating networks. Among the evolution of smart devices, new technologies also have become available for transporting countless forms of information. Communications protocols, applications, and IP-enabled devices are using technologies such as Bluetooth, Zigbee, WiFi, small cells, in-building distributed antenna systems, wired LANs, AV sensors, and emerging Light Fidelity (LiFi) technology. It is important that the design and provisioning of the wired and wireless infrastructure be able to accommodate present and future systems and applications.
According to test results, Rosenberger OSI’s FTT-ACP (fiber to the active consolidation point) concept achieves up to 50% energy savings in current building cabling projects. This is made possible by the PerConnect EcoFlexIT complete system which combines active and passive components and combines floor distributor, switch and passive collection point.
