At its meeting this past July, the IEEE 802.3 Working Group launched a Study Group to investigate EPON specifications based on Google Fiber’s Super-PON technology. Google Fiber Architect Claudio DeSanti, chair of […]
When deploying fiber in the access network, operators have long valued systems that use each fiber strand bidirectionally. The reasons are simple. This approach reduces the number of fibers required by 50%, […]
Cisco announced a set of 400Gbps Ethernet switches for the data center. While other vendors including Juniper and Arista made their launches earlier, Cisco says its switches, due to be delivered early […]
Smart cities and connected buildings will become the new normal. This is the second entry in a four-part Data Center Frontier special report series that explores edge computing from a data center perspective. This […]
According to Cisco, 400 GbE is now available for testing, deployment, and adoption by network operators, paving the way for Terabit Scale Ethernet. CommScope shares insight into how data center managers can […]
Ideally, enterprises would like to upgrade their data centers to 40G/100G Ethernet without changing their existing duplex multimode fiber infrastructure being used for 10G Ethernet. Also, many would like to maintain the […]
I don’t know of another term or topic that’s been used so much in songs that it has a Best of List of 99 songs – except for POWER. The term means […]
Consumers and businesses are driving exponential growth of data services, and data center operators must continue to find ways to deliver higher network speeds. Enterprise data centers must support existing legacy applications […]
To meet the needs of the industrial environment, Industrial Ethernet essentially uses special industrial protocols encapsulated within the Ethernet protocol in a way that ensures the correct information is sent and received […]
From an infrastructure perspective, a data center’s ability to scale, as and when needed and to changing customer, business and application needs, is critical. This flexibility will support future bandwidth and transmission […]
