4G & 5G

What is 5G, and when do I get it?

LOOK AT THE top corner of your phone screen. Right now, it probably reads 4G LTE, and you’re probably fine with that. But soon—and we’re talking years, not months—your phone will say 5G there instead. The mobile industry is buzzing about this next generation of high-speed wireless service, and you can expect the chatter to […]

Data Center

3 mistakes some electricians made installing data cables at our jobsite

The following Youtube video from HSM IT Services (Edmonton, AB) notes how “electricians are often contracted to run data cable (Cat5e, Cat6) while installing electrical wire. Many times, they do a bad job and we have to clean up the mess,” observes the Canadian structured cabling installer firm. Why exactly do they say this? “Several […]

Test and Measurements

II-VI offers pluggable OTDR

II‐VI Inc. (NASDAQ:IIVI) has introduced a pluggable optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) for embedded network monitoring of carrier and data center networks, particularly within the context of software-defined networking (SDN). The second-generation device, designed to be plugged into XFP ports, is in the sampling stage, with general availability slated for the third quarter of this […]

Copper Cabling

Is 100W 4PPoE just a subtle blowtorch for RJ45 panels?

1.) What effect will 100W 4-pair PoE have on RJ45 connectivity? As put forth by a recent technology white paper from Panduit: “The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) document, TSB-184, Guidelines for Supporting Power Delivery Over Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling provides guidance for installing cables that run PoE with currents up to 600 mA on two pairs. […]

Optical Cable

Tarluz Loose Tube Type Air Blowing Cable

Tarluz offers loose tube type air-blowing cable, the fibers are positioned in a PBT loose tube, the tube filled with water resistant filling compound, The loose tubes are stranded around a central plastic central strength member. The cable is completed with an outer sheath. Fiber Count Configuration Fillers Outer Diameter (mm) Cable Weight kg/km Tensile […]

Data Center

OM5 Fiber for data center application

ISO/IEC decided to name WBMMF Wideband Multimode Fiber as OM5 in Oct. 2016, this decision was made by ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1)/Subcommittee 25 (SC 25) Interconnection of Information Technology Equipment. At a spring 2016 meeting of JTC 1/SC 25’s Working Group 3 – Customer Premises Cabling – the working group was unable […]

Data Center

What is OSFP Octal Small Form Factor Pluggable?

The long-awaited public launch of efforts to develop the Octal Small Form Factor Pluggable (OSFP) optical transceiver module for 400-Gbps applications has finally arrived. The multisource agreement (MSA) development group, led by Arista Networks, includes 49 members. “It is rare to see so much industry support behind a new optics module form factor,” said Andreas […]

Data Center Tools and Tool kits

Процедура очистки соединителей, кассет и кабельных сборок MPO

LC и SC и FC адаптеры Вставьте ватную палочку для очистки в открытый проходной адаптер. Вращайте ватную палочку по часовой стрелке, изменяя силу нажатия и совершая плавные движения вперед и назад, чтобы конец ватной палочки контактировал наконечником. Проверьте качество очистки с помощью микроскопа и при необходимости повторите шаги 1 и 2, пока загрязнения не будут удалены. После использования утилизируйте ватную палочку. Кассета/Адаптер […]

Data Center Data Transmission

Компоненты кабельной системы MPO

Волоконно-оптическая кабельная система MPO состоит из претерминированных многоволоконных оптических кабелей, которые подключаются к претерминированным оптическим кассетам. Кабели MPO содержат 12 оптических волокон, оконцованных 12-волоконными MPO-соединителями без смены полярности, которые включаются непосредственно в оптические кассеты на обоих концах. Система MPO доступна в многомодовом и одномодовом вариантах, длины соединительных кабелей могут определяться заказчиком. Система MPO от AMP […]

Data Center

Knowledge you should know about 100G Ethernet Transmission

What standard addresses 100G, and when will this standard be complete? The IEEE 802.3ba technical requirements were ratified in the recent April 2010 sponsor ballot. The document has been forwarded for approval to RevCom and is expected to be released in June 2010. When is customer implementation of 100G expected? Early end-user adoption is expected […]