The team of researchers at Microsoft that spends its time investigating new ideas for making the cloud giant’s global data center infrastructure more efficient and cost-effective have launched a pilot data center […]
Microsoft Launches Pilot Natural Gas-Powered Data Center in Seattle
Field Friendly Polarity and Pin Changes
Corning’s Data Center Harness and MTP Jumpers now comes with MTP Pro which enables Field Polarity change a simple one-step field polarity change without removing connector housing or exposing fibers — and […]
Three 5G fiber trends to watch
Fiber is fuel for both LTE and future “5G” systems, and service providers are doing their best to increase their fiber footprints. Here are three fiber trends to watch: Both residential and […]
White Paper: Testing Parallel Optics
To accommodate the relentless need for speed, driven by mobile devices, watching videos online and uploading and sharing content network owners are migrating the physical connectivity in their enterprise and data center […]
The meter doesn’t lie
How well do you know the Code? Think you can spot violations the original installer either ignored or couldn’t identify? Read the source article at ecmweb.com
Mechanical Continuity of Raceways and Cable Sheaths
What are the NEC rules regarding mechanical continuity of raceways and cable sheaths? Read the source article at ecmweb.com
Simplified coherent transceiver could revolutionize broadband
UK researchers have tested a novel design for an optical transceiver that could provide dedicated data rates to each user of more than 10Gb/s for a truly super-fast, yet low-cost, broadband connection […]
Key considerations & challenges as Data Centers get larger
Learn how data center challenges like redundancy, availability, efficiency also fiber loss budgets and use of data center testing tools to ensure performance. Read the source article at flukenetworks.com
The right cable management system protects & extends the life of your network.
Ortronics is constantly innovating and improving on our products. Pictured here is part of the company’s Mighty Mo 20 vertical manager, focusing on the mounting and installation to the rack. Stay tuned […]
What the future holds for next-generation PON technologies
Passive optical network technologies help user organizations achieve higher bandwidth, cost-effective speed upgrades, flexible network topology and legacy system compatibility. Read the source article at cablinginstall.com
