Artificial intelligence, cloud computing, high-performance storage, and hybrid work environments are placing unprecedented demands on enterprise network infrastructure. Organizations that once relied on Cat6A and legacy multimode fiber are discovering that their backbone networks have become the limiting factor...
As enterprises race to deploy increasingly powerful AI clusters, attention often focuses on GPUs, processors, networking equipment, and cooling technologies. Yet one of the most overlooked contributors to AI infrastructure performance lies in the physical layer itself: structured cabling.
Poor...
In many large scale and/or sensitive cabling projects the horizontal cables selected are designed as S/FTP (overall braid shielded PiMF cables), usually having Category 7 or Category 7A transmission properties.
In 99% of these projects the connecting hardware transmission properties...
Atlantic Broadband has become the latest provider of internet services in New Hampshire to announce it will soon begin providing fiberoptic services to residences and businesses in the Granite State.
Atlantic, based in Quincy, Mass. and the eighth-largest cable operator...
Boffins at Japan's Keio University reckon they've built viable optical fibers from plastics.
Optical fibers are most often made of glass and are, as attested by the awesome data-schlepping capacity of undersea cables, freaking amazing.
But while boffins have made optical...
The default way that your Roku Smart TV or streaming device connects to the internet wirelessly via your home, hotel or dorm is through a WiFi network.
While WiFi is very convenient and easily accessible, it’s also prone to interference...
Direct Attach Copper And Active Optical Cables: The evolution of business approaches and work patterns has secured high speed networks and data centers as the fulcrum of critical operations for organizations around the world.
Modern data centers can enable companies...
CommScope Next Initiative To Be Given The Highest Priority: CommScope has kicked off a plan to evaluate the health of its full portfolio of products and businesses under the direction of new CEO Chuck Treadway.
That evaluation – part of...
Electromagnetic Interference In Data Cabling: Electromagnetic interference is an electromagnetic emission generated by an external source that causes a disturbance in an electrical circuit.
Potential causes of electromagnetic interference include induction, electrostatic coupling, or physical contact with a conductor.
Electromagnetic interference...
Single Pair Ethernet Transmits Up To 1.7KM: Texas Instruments (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) today introduced a new Ethernet physical layer (PHY) capable of transmitting 10-Mbps Ethernet signals up to 1.7 km through a single pair of twisted wires.
The extended cable...
