OFS has expanded its Rollable Ribbon Cable product line to include connectorized assemblies which offer all the benefits of the original rollable ribbon cable — including a small outer diameter, tight bend radius and flexibility with termination counts of 24 – 864 fibers — now with the option of including MPO, LC or SC connectors.
Enterprise leaders understand how important the Internet of Things (IoT) will be to their companies—in fact, according to a report by McKinsey & Company, 92 percent of them believe IoT will help them innovate products and improve operations by 2020. However, like many business-enabling systems, IoT is not without its growing pains. Even early adopters have concerns about the cost, complexity, and security implications of applying IoT to their businesses. To help you plan your IoT journey, we’re rolling out a four-part blog series. In the upcoming posts, we’ll cover how to create an IoT business case, overcome capability gaps, and simplify execution; all advice to help you maximize your gains with IoT.
Each day that is not spent converting to smart buildings is a day in which valuable financial and environmental resources have been, in effect, wasted. A global qualitative study by Siemens estimates the potential for “self-financing” smart building conversion across 13 countries in commercial buildings, government buildings and hospitals. Using private sector finance solutions known as “Smart Buildings as a Service”, buildings owners can harness savings gained from smart upgrades and then deploy those savings to facilitate self-financing style investment.
The emergence of Smart Buildings have raised a number of cyber challenges, Recent ransomware cyber attacks on Buildings highlights the need for mature and deployment based Frameworks to protect user, services and infrastructure
Multimode fiber is available in different grades, ranging from OM1 to OM5. The main differences are the core size, in microns or µ, and modal bandwidth. In general, the larger the core size the farther the signal needs to travel within the core due to the size of the waves. Larger cores limit the maximum length of the cable Modal bandwidth refers to the maximum signaling rate, or maximum distance. for a given signaling rate. The greater the bandwidth, the greater capacity of a fiber to transmit information. This determines the distance each Ethernet variant can reach over that type of fiber.
Whilst many people think of 5G as a wireless network it is only wireless from the point of the masts that deliver the signal. Everything else is still delivered by traditional cabling systems. Fiber the backbone of all high-speed networks and the cost of ownership is coming down. I see a future where fibre will be the main cabling element of most networks as copper data transfer rates is near to saturation points with current copper-based technologies.
Network TAPs (Test Access Points) are the absolute best way to gain access to network traffic, whether that be for network visibility solutions, network monitoring infrastructure, or network security auditing. When it comes time to begin building a TAP infrastructure there are several details to consider. Some are simple and obvious, and others may be subtler and more nuanced. This article is intended to be a primer on the main points to consider when searching for Network TAPs for your environment.
IoT plays a major role in predicting disasters. One example that arises is the earthquake detection and warning effort of the US Geological Society. The system they are working on is called the Earthquake Early Warning system, and there are such systems in Mexico, Taiwan and Japan. In California, they have piloted the EEW prototype, called ShakeAlert, since 2012. Recently, ShakeAlert managed to detect and warn Pasadena residents about a 4.4 magnitude earthquake.
To ensure reliability, ‘future-forward’ networks need both macro-bending resilient and ruggedized fiber-optic cables. Downtime is a serious concern. According to a recent report published by Gartner, titled The Cost of Downtime, the average cost of network downtime is approximately $5,600 per minute. This adds even more pressure for data center operators and enterprise managers to keep their networks up and running 24/7/365.
The TIA has formed the TR-60 ICT Lifecycle Management Committee.TR-60 will be responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary standards that address the management of technology for qualifying vertical markets, focusing on planning, documentation, design, remediation and operation of ICT systems, infrastructure and services.
