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Volume 27, Issue 9

Volume 27, Issue 9

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Volume 27, Issue 9

Digital Edition

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The hardest part

Sept. 10, 2019

Fluke Networks' MicroScanner PoE

Product Review

Sept. 10, 2019

Rosenberger OSI's Clemens Wurster (center) and Ryan Chappell (right) pose with the company's 2018 Cabling Innovators Platinum Award.

CABLING INNOVATORS SPOTLIGHT

Sept. 10, 2019

Smart buildings are evolving into integrated ecosystems.

How passive optical LANs can support smart buildings

Sept. 10, 2019

A CORD - central office rearchitected as a data center - replaces purpose-built hardware devices with their more-agile software-defined counterparts. A CORD unifies software-defined networking, network function virtualization, and cloud services, and can serve residential, enterprise and mobile access needs.

Cabling considerations for CORD networks

Sept. 10, 2019

More content from Volume 27, Issue 9

The TIA published the ANSI/TIA-569-E standard in May 2019. It has several updates from the standard's 'D' revision, including information that can help planners of twisted-pair cabling systems that will support remote powering.

TIA’s cabling-standards development committee keeping busy

The association also is launching a new committee to develop specifications for ICT lifecycle management.

Sept. 10, 2019

1-Gigabit PON (left) serves residential customers, with each home connection raising costs arising from the fiber-network build. 10G PON (right) is poised to serve not only residential customers, but also business services and future applications like 5G anyhaul. Among the cost-containment advantages of 10G PON is that it operates over different wavelengths of the same fiber that 1G PON uses, thereby obviating the fiber-network build.

Making the case for deploying 10G PON now

10x more in 10 years

Sept. 10, 2019