White Paper: Standing at the Edge? Look before you leap

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RF Code’s new White Paper, Standing at the Edge? Look Before You Leap,” defines the edge – what it is, where it is, and its benefits, and reveals the obstacles and hazards IT professionals need to address to ensure their edge deployments deliver the rewards their businesses demand. The paper explores critical information for those developing an edge data center deployment strategy. According to Gartner, within the next four years 75% of data generated by enterprises will be processed at the edge (up from just 10% today).

MultiFiber Pro- Optical Power Meter and Light Source: By Fluke Networks

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Fluke’s MultiFiber Pro tests MPO fiber trunks without the use of fan-out cords. The tester offers automatic scanning and testing of all 12 fibers in MPO connectors and ensures correct end-to-end connectivity of MPO fiber trunks with built-in polarity verification. The tester features a simple user interface that displays all 12 fibers and the ability to drill down to a single fiber test result.

Smart Cities – Smart Futures | Forbes: Smart Cities: The Future Of Urban Development

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Smart cities bring together infrastructure and technology to improve the quality of life of citizens and enhance their interactions with the urban environment. But how can data from areas such as public transport, air quality meters and energy production be integrated and effectively used? By rendering more technology capable of communicating across platforms, IoT generates more data that can help improve various aspects of daily life. Cities can identify both opportunities and challenges in real-time, reducing costs by pinpointing issues prior to their emergence and allocating resources more accurately to maximize impact.

Tips to Identify Copper Clad Aluminium (CCA) Cables

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If it sounds too good to be true, it might be. Don’t get too excited if you find Category 6 cable available online for practically half what you’ve been paying for that brand name. Even if it claims TIA-568-C compliance, includes the UL listing mark and even has a ETL verification legend printed right on the cable, make sure that cable isn’t made with copper clad aluminum (CCA). Cables made with CCA conductors are simply not worth the risk, even at the lower price. Not only are they non-standards compliant, but they often do not have a valid UL safety listing per the National Electric Not Worth the Savings or the RiskCode (NEC)..

Upgrading fiber. Which one to choose?

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Q. We are upgrading a network at a brownfield site where most fiber runs are close to 100 meters, and we’re considering an upgrade from OM2 to either OM4 or single-mode. Which one should we choose?A. Customers prefer to stay with multimode, as the transceivers are generally cheaper. If your runs are 100 meters or less, OM4 would allow you to migrate to 400 Gb/s in the future, based on the draft requirements of IEEE 802.3cm. If your runs are over 100 meters, there are proprietary transceivers that would allow you to go farther at 100 Gb/s on OM4, but at this stage you should be looking at single-mode.

Do You Really Know the True Cost of Downtime in Your Manufacturing Plant?

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The financial burden of downtime is concerning for any business, but for manufacturing firms, it is one of the most critical issues faced and poses a significant threat to the bottom line. That is why many manufacturers are looking for ways to minimize downtime. And they typically will focus on the types of events that cost the most. But as a manufacturer, do you know how to accurately calculate the true cost of downtime? This is a calculation that many get wrong and can significantly hamper efforts to minimize the financial impact of downtime occurrences.

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