Fast-growing online activity over the last decade has forced a rapid rise in both space and electrical power required to operate data centers. Accordingly, power density becomes higher, and cooling of these data centers becomes critical. Economies of scale mean single data center locations have grown larger, with a demand for a safe power supply […]
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Taking Copper to Greater Heights With Best Practices for Pair Bonding
Today, more than 1 billion households are still connected to a copper line.1 As the reality of supporting HDTV and video in just about every room has become the norm and no longer a luxury, higher bandwidth for Triple Play Services (voice, data, and video) continues to see a growing demand. Leading telco service providers […]
Multi-port 60W PoE Gigabit media converters
Omnitron Systems Technology recently introduced the OmniConverter GHPoE/S, which the company described as “the first multi-port, 60 Watts Power over Ethernet Gigabit media converter.” Omnitron explained the converter is compatible with IEEE 802.3af PoE (15 Watts) and 802.3at PoE Plus (30 Watts) standards, and “provides 100/1000-Ethernet-fiber-to-10/100/1000-copper” as a media converter. “It is classified as Power […]
WHY FIBER TO THE HOME IS THE BEST CHOICE
We’re on the right path with our fibre strategy. “Competition is fierce…But we had solid revenue performance again this quarter, thanks to our fibre to the home strategy and we continue to believe that we are on the right path… “FibreOp has performed very well especially compared to our non-fibre markets – reinforcing our belief […]
Fiber and Bandwidth
Q: What is bandwidth? a: In a network, bandwidth (what engineers call bitrate) is the ability to carry information. The more bandwidth a network has, the more information it can carry in a given amount of time. Networks with high bandwidth also tend to be more reliable because fewer bottlenecks disturb the flow of information. […]
FTTH Customer Base Continues Strong Expansion
With almost 1.4 million homes newly passed by fiber in the six months ending March 2013, the pace of fiber-to-the-home deployment in North America is exceeding long-term trends, even though it could not match the torrid pace of the prior six-month period. The data comes from market researcher Michael Render of RVA LLC, who released […]
Fiber Optic Connectors
The fiber part of the fiber optic telecommunications system is made up of lengths of optical fiber that must be connected to each other to provide pathways for the optical signals to get from where they start to where you want them to go. Although the connections with the least loss of the signal are […]
Status of Broadband Deployment in the U.S. Depends on Source
After reading the conclusions drawn by the broadband provider community and the FCC, one would think that the data sources were entirely different. According to broadband providers, there is plenty of broadband access at speeds consumers want. The FCC claims that slow speeds increase the digital divide, large swaths of unserved areas throughout the country […]
Introduction to Fiber Optics Cables – Stripping and Cleaving
Optical fiber has changed telecommunications all over the world. Because a single optical fiber can carry really huge numbers of teleph one conversations , long distance calls that used to be very expensive have become cheap enough for many people to make them often. How optical fibers carry multiple conversations is fascinating. How does the […]
Fiber Optic Test Set
The simplest test we can make on a fiber optical system is to see whether light is getting through and how much is lost. The instruments used for this are called an optical source and a receiver. Together, they form a fiber optic test set. Most fiber optic test sets work with several different wavelengths. […]