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Top Fiber Questions Digital Handbook
Cable operators and edge computing: Where and why?
What do AR/VR, cloud gaming, smart cities, 5G, autonomous vehicles, healthcare sensors, surveillance and facial recognition all have in common? The need for low-latency connectivity enabled by networks architected with edge computing. For some service providers, edge computing trials have already started. For others, edge computing plans won’t be formulated for a few years. But, whether they’ve already devised their edge compute strategy or haven’t yet begun, the first question they need to ask themselves is: “How do we define edge computing?”
Understanding Fiber Optic Based Light Source
Using single mode fiber for short distances can cause the receiver to be overwhelmed and an inline attenuator may be needed to introduce attenuation into the channel. With Gigabit to the desktop becoming commonplace, 10Gb/s backbones have also become more common. The SR interfaces are also becoming common in data center applications and even some desktop applications.
OFC 2020 to Host Live Multivendor Technology Interoperability Demonstrations
OFC will feature multivendor interoperability demonstrations of the products and solutions enabling next-generation infrastructure. Technologies featured in the demos include: 400ZR, 400G Open ZR+, OpenROADM, Common Electrical I/O (CEI)-112G, FlexE, IC-TROSA, 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), 25GbE, 50GbE, 100GbE, 200GbE and 400GbE and 400G on-board optical modules.
Smart buildings and dealing with data overload
Over 80% of new builds now involve at least one aspect of smart technology such as smart security, lighting or controls, including new homes as well as commercial builds. But with all this smart technology potential, building owners and users are now faced with other challenges: data overload, confusion about choices of which technology suits their needs and the decisions they need to make for their return on investment (ROI) over time.
Smart Buildings – Taking Building Automation to the Next Level
Building automation, as a working discipline, has been around for ~ 30 years. By the turn of the century many buildings were equipped with computers/controllers that could connect to the internet and provide greater control over many building parameters (temperature, lighting, access, security, etc.). Those buildings could be considered “automated” but they were not “smart”. Smart buildings are the next phase of this evolution. The Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) are combining to make buildings more dynamic, more adaptive, and more efficient. This article addressees the current challenges faced by building operators and facility managers and how emerging technologies can address these challenges.
Atlanta’s Emory Healthcare and Verizon team to debut 5G healthcare lab
The Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub, lit with Verizon’s 5G ultra wideband service, is exploring how the superior bandwidth, super-fast speeds and ultra-low latency of 5G could redefine patient care with real-time data analytics, supporting solutions such as connected ambulances, remote physical therapy and next-generation medical imaging. EHIH will be able to test how 5G could enhance augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications for medical training, enable telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, and provide point of care diagnostic and imaging systems from the ambulance to the ER.
TiniFiber takes BICSI honors for 144-strand OS2 micro armored fiber-optic cable
TiniFiber was awarded first place in the “Copper and Fiber” category for displayed products during the BICSI 2020 Winter Exhibition. Honored was TiniFiber’s Micro Armored 144 Strand Fiber Optic Cable, for offering the industry’s smallest 144 strand OS2 fiber-optic cabling innovation, incorporating the company’s U.S. patented micro armored stainless-steel coil innovation around its inner jacket.
All Fiber Roads Divisible by 2 and 8
By now you’ve probably heard of 8-fiber MPO plug and play solutions available on the market, which are ideal for Gigabit (40GBASE-SR4) and 100 Gigabit (100GBASE-SR4) applications that use 8 fibers with 4 transmitting and 4 receiving at either 10 or 25 Gb/s. Unlike 12-fiber MPO solutions where 4 of the 12 fibers go unused, 8-fiber MPO solutions offer 100% fiber utilization in these applications. When looking ahead to future fiber applications, 8-fiber MPO solutions continue to make the most sense because all future duplex, parallel optic and WDM-based fiber applications are divisible by either 2 or 8 fibers – not 12.
Netscale 72 facilitates migration to higher speed networks
R&M’s new fiber optic distribution platform Netscale 72 natively supports two parallel optical cabling types, BASE8 and BASE12. That means distribution modules for both applications fit in the same system drawers. Data centers can adapt the trunk cabling within the existing racks and housing. In this way, Netscale 72 facilitates fast migration to new network generations.
