Fiber/copper media + physical/virtual IT infrastructure management, connectivity = A mixed bag: The week's top stories

The 15 most dominant fiber-optic connector market players, listed; Transition Networks debuts Ethernet over 2-wire extender with PoE+; What's up your (firestop) sleeve? And other brilliant cabling commercials; The final emergence of SDN.
March 31, 2017
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Fiber/copper media + physical/virtual infrastructure management, connectivity = A mixed bag: The week's top stories
Fiber/copper media + physical/virtual infrastructure management, connectivity = A mixed bag: The week's top stories

Here are the cabling, wireless, and data center infrastructure industry's top trending news stories from the past week, as compiled by Cabling Installation & Maintenance and CablingInstall.com.

1.) 15 dominant fiber-optic connector market players: Listed

Fiber/copper media + physical/virtual infrastructure management, connectivity = A mixed bag: The week's top stories
Fiber/copper media + physical/virtual infrastructure management, connectivity = A mixed bag: The week's top stories

A listing of the 15 most dominant players in the global fiber-optic connector market, according to ICR World Research.

2.) What's up your (firestop) sleeve? And other brilliant cabling commercials

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As a wise person once said, it's increasingly Youtube's world - we just live in it.

3.) Amateurs, please step away from the patch cords.

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4.) Transition Networks debuts Ethernet over 2-wire extender with PoE+

Transition Networks integrates managed PoE+ switches with Milestone Systems' XProtect VMS
Transition Networks integrates managed PoE+ switches with Milestone Systems' XProtect VMS

At the upcoming ISC West (April 5-7) in Las Vegas, Transition Networks will be introducing its Ethernet Over 2-Wire Extender With PoE+, designed to extend networks at near Gigabit speeds and provide power to security cameras, wireless access points, and other IP devices at distances beyond the typical 100m Ethernet cable limitation.

5.) The emergence of SDN: Understanding the critical infrastructure challenge of next-generation networks

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By JEREMY CLUTE, Vertiv -- Software-defined networking (SDN) has the capability to fundamentally change our approach to today’s emerging next-generation networks. The first step is automating manual processes to more effectively collect and analyze data from devices across the network - including critical infrastructure systems - and scaling accordingly to meet demand. Ultimately, that’s the key to SDN.

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