What is a Smart building?

By on • ( Leave a comment )

A Smart Building is defined as ‘a structure embedded or retrofitted with internet-connected devices and appliances’.   Smart buildings have a lot of reported benefits including increased efficiency, reduced utility costs and simplifying daily life for tenants. Smart buildings achieve these benefits by using sensors and actuators to collect and manage data according to the business’ services and functions. The effectiveness of smart buildings centre on the use of interconnected technologies to make buildings more intelligent and responsive which as a result can improve their performance and optimise how space is used.

How Facility Management Can Keep Up in the Digital Age

By on • ( Leave a comment )

Facility management, like every other business field, is undergoing digital transformation. Learn about facility management in the digital age. This guide addresses the basics of facility management, top technology developments affecting the field from building automation systems to big data; and the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation in facility management.
 

7 Ways Smart Buildings are Changing Commercial Real Estate

By on • ( Leave a comment )

Smart building technology has a profound effect on many industries, such as manufacturing, as well as the commercial real estate market. Today’s businesses are looking for more than an empty building that they house their equipment in. The smart building features are as much of a selling point as the location. Here are seven other ways that smart buildings are changing commercial real estate: Expanding options, fully Integrated systems, Adapting to tenants’ technology requirements, improving environmental friendliness, and better automation due to versatile IoT sensors.

Smart Buildings – Digital has the power to create ‘living’ workspaces  

By on • ( Leave a comment )

.A truly smart building is able to communicate across different systems and services to allow the occupier to make the best possible decisions, whether automatically or by intervening. There is still a way to go before connected buildings becomes the norm, but building efficiency can be increased by an average of around 40-50% across the main cities in the world.

40Gb/s 100m QSFP+, Bi-Di, Duplex LC multimode fiber optic QSFP+ transceiver

By on • ( Leave a comment )

Soptco has introduced a Four-Channel, Pluggable, LC Duplex, Fiber-Optic QSFP+ Transceiver for 40 Gigabit Ethernet Applications. This high-performance transceiver integrates four electrical data lanes in each direction into transmission over a single LC duplex fiber optic cable. The transceiver internally multiplexes an XLPPI 4x10G interface into two 20Gb/s electrical channels, transmitting and receiving each optically over one simplex LC fiber using bi-directional optics. Link distances up to 100 m using OM3 and 150m using OM4 optical fiber are supported. These modules operate over multimode fiber systems using a nominal wavelength of 850nm on one end and 900nm on the other end.

How to Buy Best Ethernet Cables – Cat 5, Cat 6, Cat 7

By on • ( Leave a comment )

Buying Ethernet cable is not always as easy as it might seem. There is a huge selection of network cables of different types; Cat 5, Cat5e, Cat 6, Cat 6e and Cat 7, as well as different lengths colors and the like. It is important to buy the right network cable: over-specify it and you will pay too much; under-specify it and the performance will be impaired and the local area network or Ethernet link will not work as well as it might.

Simplifying Data Center Network Design with Universal Fiber Cassettes

By on • ( Leave a comment )

Polarity is a critical part of any fiber network. Polarity means that a fiber optic link’s transmit signal at one end of the cable must match the corresponding receiver at the other end. While this concept might seem simple, it becomes more complex with multifiber cables and MPO connectors. Leviton’s new Universal Polarity Fiber Cassettes allow for the same interchangeable cassette on both ends of a Method B trunk in a fiber channel, reducing the complexity of a fiber network, ensuring consistent polarity, and streamlining network deployment.

White Paper »

Ultra-high-density Optical Wiring Solutions for Data Centers

White Paper: Infrastructure Solutions for Edge Networks

White Paper: Solving Edge Computing Infrastructure Challenges

TIA White Paper: Resilience at the Edge

The future of enterprise cabling has Cat 6A written all over it

Webinar »

Online seminar addresses multifiber connectivity

Free Webinar on Fiber-to-the-Home Broadband Networks for Connecting Rural America

Webinar: When to use an OTDR

Webinar: Assessing Smart Buildings With SPIRE: Connectivity, Cybersecurity, and Safety

Webinar: Assessing Smart Buildings With SPIRE: Connectivity, Cybersecurity, and Safety