Volume 27, Issue 12

Ideal Networks
Ideal Networks recently introduced LanTEK IV, a cabling-certification tool with a frequency range up to 3000 MHz. Applications for single-pair cabling are likely to operate at frequencies as low as 100 kHz. Specifications for testing single-pair cabling systems across a frequency range that goes as low as 100 kHz are under discussion within the TIA's TR-42.7 Committee.
Standards

How intelligent buildings can take a page from the book of intelligent vehicles

Dec. 10, 2019
A set of standards used in automotive and vehicular networks lays the groundwork for intelligent-building and industrial networks and cabling systems.
Vertiv
SmartMod is Vertiv's intelligent, modular IT enclosure that allows a user to add capacity to existing infrastructure or to deploy a large turnkey site for rapid growth on-demand.
Data Center

What will a data center at the edge look like?

Dec. 10, 2019
Security, monitoring and reliability will be critical in edge facilities.
Properly trained and validated artificial intelligence/machine learning models can accurately process vast amounts of information, revealing the valuable bits of data to act on.
Data Center

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are on the edge of what?

Dec. 10, 2019
AI and ML are applications that are here to stay. For most organizations, deploying AI and ML will mean edge networking and, specifically, a multi-tenant data center (MTDC).
Corning
A composite cable comprises optical fibers for data and copper wires to deliver remote power. In an industrial environmental, composite cable can be used in a network of millimeter-wave 5G radios supporting a coverage zone.
Wireless/5G

Communications needs in manufacturing plants

Dec. 10, 2019
Planning for communications needs in industrial environments starts with the network’s first layer.
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Innovators

Cabling Innovators Spotlight

Dec. 10, 2019
Platinum, Gold and Silver recipients of 2019 Cabling Innovators Awards

More content from Volume 27, Issue 12

Huber + Suhner
In an edge data center, it is important for a cabling solution to provide a complete, comprehensive backbone using limited space. Shown here are cassettes that are part of Huber + Suhner's LISA (Leading Interconnect System Approach), which is a high-density fiber system commonly used as a crossconnect in a data center.
Design Install

Small but mighty: Setting the standard for the future of IoT

Dec. 10, 2019
According to Gartner, there will be more than 25 billion devices located at the edge by 2021—and this scale of adoption is growing at an unprecedented rate. So what will it take...
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Cable

Product Focus: Composite Copper-Fiber Cable

Dec. 10, 2019
Cables that include optical fibers and copper conductors are profiled, from manufacturers including Belden, Berk-Tek, Corning, Hitachi Cable America and others.
ADTRAN
SmartRG, an ADTRAN company, recently introduced Intellifi, a whole-home turnkey mesh WiFi solution tailored for service providers.
Wireless/5G

Understanding why network performance comes down to WiFi performance

Dec. 10, 2019
For service providers, managing and monitoring tools can be one tool, but not the only tool, for delivering the WiFi experience end-user customers demand.
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Wireless/5G

Survey results tell us what's ahead for the ICT industry.

Dec. 10, 2019
Survey results tell us what's ahead for the ICT industry.
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Design Install

How technical and business issues are steering the ICT industry into 2020

Dec. 10, 2019
We report results from a survey of professionals across the information and communications technology industry.