Month: October 2017
Jupiter Submarine Fiber Cable System to Connect Japan and U.S.
Japan based NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) has signed an agreement to construct optical submarine cable connecting Japan and the United States also connecting Philippines on its way. The cable system named Jupiter will have large capacity and low latency and will be compatible with 400Gbps optical wavelength division multiplexing transmission system. NTT Com is part of a consortium comprising Softbank, Facebbok, Amazon, PLDT and PCCW Global.
City of San Francisco Plans for Full Fiber Deployment
The Californian city of San Francisco has adopted a resolution to deploy fiber optic cables to each of it’s residences and businesses to deliver high-speed broadband services. By doing this San Francisco would be the first major city in the United States to commit to connecting each of its homes and businesses to a fiber optic network. The Fiber for…
A Beginner’s Guide to RJ45 Connector
Generally, cables can transmit information along with their length. To actually get the information where it needs to go, you need to make the right connections to an RJ45 connector. Your cable run needs to terminate into a connector, which needs a jack to plug into. RJ45 is a standard type of physical connector for network cables, which is especially…
TP-Link 8-Port TL-SG1008D Desktop Switch
Ethernet switch usually acts as a hub that connects network devices and segments together while having the intelligence to send data where it needs to go. There are both managed and unmanaged switches. The managed switch as the names imply can be programmed, while unmanaged switch simple allows Ethernet devices to communicate with one another. Besides, most fiber optic switches…
Reach to 40km Transmission – 100G QSFP28 ER4 Lite Module
Today’s world is undergoing an infrastructure transformation, which requires higher speed, greater scalability, higher performance, flexibility, and reliability to meet the demands. Take 100G data rate as an example, the MSA groups keep driving the development of 500m, 2km, 10km and 40km cost-effective 100G optics targeting modern data center. The 100G QSFP28 ER4-Lite standard was sampling several months ago, but…
Transceiver Optics and Cable Options for HP 5820AF-24XG Switch (JG219B)
The requirements of virtualization and cloud trends are changing enterprise business environments, high port density, high throughput, and very low latency are bedrock requirements in the data center. The HP 5820 switch series are built to meet these requirements, and help enterprises to reduce operating costs and build agile and resilient enterprises. As a member in the family of HP…