Huawei has, by most accounts, taken the lead in the race to develop one of the modern world’s most important technologies: fifth-generation mobile telephony. Unlike its various predecessors, which simply offered consumers […]
The Improbable Rise of Huawei
Smart Buildings: Forming The Foundation Of Smart Cities
It’s virtually impossible to imagine a city without conjuring an image of its skyline, or at the very least, a vista of the buildings that populate it. Likewise, in smart cities, smart […]
Setting the Bar for Data Center Infrastructure
Investment into data centers is not showing any signs of slowing down anytime soon, as more and more entities are attracted to the asset class, both from the domestic and the foreign […]
White Paper: Fiber Contamination, Cleaning and Inspection. Introduction.
Despite industry best practice of inspecting and cleaning fiber optic endfaces, contaminated connections remain the number one cause of fiber related problems and test failures in data centers, campus and other enterprise […]
Microsoft Not Ready to Dive Into Liquid Cooling
Server chips today are on a trajectory that puts their power density well beyond what an air-based cooling system can do in just a few years. The power requirements of CPUs are […]
Network issues are causing more data-center outages
As enterprise computing environments grow more complex, IT system failures and network errors are bringing down data centers in greater numbers, causing more unplanned downtime. Power failures are a common cause of […]
Why Edge? Why now?
The next decade will give rise to a variety of connected technologies that will continue to transform and automate our everyday lives. This will include everything from fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks, to […]
Webinar: How to Optimize Intelligent Building Infrastructure
What makes a building intelligent is a matter of significant debate. Several industry organizations have identified the broad benefits that are expected to be gained from the intelligent building. This Webinar discusses […]
Will My Existing Cable Plant Support 2.5/5GBASE-T?
Driven by the NBASE-T Alliance and compatible with the NBASE-T specification, IEEE 802.3bz specifies 2.5 Gbps over 100 meters of Category 5e cabling or 5 Gbps over 100 meters of Category 6 […]
R&M’s PRIME ODF connects 5376 fibers in fiber-to-the-home networks
R&M has launched PRIME (Professional Interconnection Management Equipment) ODF, which the company describes as “a highly dense cabling platform for optical distribution frames [ODFs].” PRIME ODF provides fiber-optic network operators greater planning […]
