Engineers at a small British internet service provider have successfully made a broadband connection work over 2m (6ft 7in) of wet string. The connection reached speeds of 3.5 Mbps (megabits per second), […]
Broadband over ‘wet string’ tested for fun – BBC News
CommScope and Partners Launch SwIFT Consortium to R&D Fiber Solutions
To keep up with increased demands for fibre optic switching technology, CommScope and its consortium of industrial, research and academic partners launched SwIFT that receives 1.85 million euros funding from the EU. […]
How to use data forensics to secure enterprise networks
The three key stages of the security lifecycle are prevention, detection and remediation. Why state the obvious? Because something is seriously skewed in how enterprises currently approach security and in particular, security […]
Fiber optic supplier adds robots to workforce
A Latham fiber optics supplier has taken its high-tech product a step higher, installing a trio of robots to speed production. Integra Optics said the robots cost more than $1 million to […]
Top 5 List of Fiber Inspection “Be Sure To” Tips
“Be sure to” – it may sound like something your mom would say, but everyone knows that mom is always right. Sure…her friendly “be sure to” reminders could seem annoying or pointless, […]
CommScope Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Cobham
CommScope, a global leader in infrastructure solutions for communications networks, has filed a patent infringement suit against Cobham in the District Court of Berlin related to digital distributed antenna system (DAS) technology. […]
Data Center Frontier Special Report
The explosive growth of digital commerce, mobile applications and streaming content continues to drive requirements for more processing and storage capacity which means your data center infrastructure management (DCIM)tools need to monitor, […]
Corning says 3M Communication Markets acquisition represents near $400M in annual sales
Corning Incorporated announced that it has entered into agreements with 3M to purchase substantially all of 3M’s Communication Markets Division in a cash transaction valued at approximately $900 million. The acquisition is […]
Top Fiber Questions: Suspending self-supporting fiber
How long of a span can I suspend self-supporting fiber?A self-supporting fiber cable is defined as a cable that was purposefully designed to support itself without attaching to a supporting strand. Typically, […]
Vapor IO Designs a New Edge Computing Architecture
Vapor IO, the Austin-based data center technology startup announced a new architecture for deploying and managing distributed computing power throughout cities. Vapor Kinetic Edge combines multiple edge locations into a single “logical” […]
