Credo’s HiWire CLOS AEC [active electrical cable] line, has been specifically designed for distributed, disaggregated chassis (DDC) implementations in CLOS networks. The company will demonstrate the new product at the OCP Experience Center at the Summit on March 4-5.
TIA has moved into new offices, right down the street from where they were before. The new address is 1310 North Courthouse Road, Suite 890, Arlington, VA 22201 and the phone number remain the same. main: +1.703.907.7700 fax: +1.703.907.7727
This year’s two APOLAN Award winners highlight the innovation, education and promotion driving POL to the future: The US Army received an award for the “World’s Largest Remote Powered POL Network at Fort Belvoir and Nokia was recognized for the industry’s first deployment of XGS PON in student housing.
The Senate companion to the Secure and Trusted Communications Network Act is a critical step in securing our network and ensuring the integrity of the telecommunications supply chain as we usher in the 5G era. TIA applauds this decisive action to support efforts for the replacement of equipment that raises national security risks with equipment from trusted suppliers. By passing the Act, Congress is also sending a clear signal to the global industry that the U.S. will continue to lead the way on 5G security.
5G is changing the main source of revenue for communications service providers (CSPs). With 4G, most revenue came from cellphone subscriptions. But connected devices—many tied to Industry 4.0 applications like remote patient monitoring and synchronized production-line robots—are expected to drive 95% of new revenues in the 5G era (Ericsson, 2017). This will ramp up quickly; GSMA predicts there will be five times more connected devices than humans by 2025 (2019 stat).
If the industry is to realize the promised benefits of IoT, we must increase the ability to support more machine-to-machine communications in near-real time, where latency requirements are on the order of a couple of milliseconds. Satisfying these requirements involves a radical rethink about how and where we deploy assets throughout the network. Link reliability will be every bit as critical as latency and will involve multiple failovers wherever that data is being transported.
CommScope is offering free DAS training to women in the wireless industry or with a wireless background who want to enter the DAS business. This four-year old program, sponsored by CommScope’s Distributed Coverage and Capacity Solutions (DCCS) group, has recently expanded to incorporate more trainings and certifications than ever including small cells and CBRS technology. The goal is to help women who are interested in improving their knowledge in these fields to help them find work or expand opportunities available to them.
Edge computing represents the next challenge to data center and infrastructure engineers. Why? Data centers have grown so big that, now, highly distributed, small deployments are preferred in many cases. The low-latency requirement for new technologies means that 5G deployments on the edge will be the next wave of new facility builds.
For co-lo data center operators infrastructure reliability and emergency response capability is essential — downtime is not an option. In this environment, testing is a critical element in meeting customer service level agreements (SLAs) and/or internal performance objectives. In a modern data center, there are thousands of links, cables, transponders, and connections, or, to it put frankly: thousands of potential points of failure. The following is a list of common key test use cases for DCOs.
There are billions of connected devices in use worldwide, and that number is increasing by the millions every year. Unfortunately, many of these IoT devices, as well as those currently being developed and deployed, lack critical security features, making them easy targets for hackers and botnets. Without the proper security measures in place, these devices can lead to catastrophic events.
