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QSFP28 100G ZR4: Fast Transfers and Greater Distances
If there’s one thing you can say with certainty about the telecommunications industry, it's that it’s always pushing for higher bandwidths and greater distances. Attaining these goals within currently supported transceiver form factors is a challenge, to put it mildly. Progress…
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Breaking Down Buzzwords: Coherents
Throughout our "Breaking Down Buzzwords" series, we have taken a look at Remote Phy , and FTTX . To continue our series, let's dive into coherent optics and attempt to provide a simplified (and, dare I say, coherent) explanation of some of the common terms and acronyms…
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New Product Announcement: Uptime Kits
Preparing For The Future There comes a time in every company's year where it needs to consider what expenditures will make it more capable of responding to operational and market challenges. Testing gear and emergency preparedness spends are a perfect example. Maintaining…
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SCTE 2020: Current Events in CBRS for Cable
Yesterdays session offered excellent insight into the use of CBRS for Cable companies, especially at Charter. Both Mehmet Yavuz from Celona and Ahmed Bencheikh from Charter offered their knowledge and experience with CBRS to date. The advent of 5G technology, together with CBRS…
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SCTE 2020: The COVID Conundrum: Lessons Learned Accelerating Network Evolution
How have top Telecom providers managed their networks during the COVID-19 pandemic? Due to the uncertainty of the COVID pandemic, cable providers have had to accelerate their network capacity to accommodate the increase needs in bandwidth of their consumers. During the seminar…
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400G Networking Has Arrived
Incredible network speeds are moving out of the lab and into commercial use! 400G is here with several different standards that can be right for your application. Let's dive right into the leading emerging format: the QSFP-DD 400G and the available variations. Note 1 : MPO…
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Going the Distance: New Technology in a Hyper Connected World
In this connected world, our data connectivity is constantly being pushed to transport higher band width and further distances…and need to be compatible with existing platforms… and limiting power usage... and maintaining a small form factor to maintain port density…PHEW! This…
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Expanding Telepresence in the Workplace and School
Life 2.0 2020 has certainly been a year of change as we’ve navigated digital transition both in the workplace and in schools. The world has seen traditional models of education and business tested, fractured, and revised. It most definitely has been a learning experience;…
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The AOC Advantage: How to Reduce Your Financial and Power Budget
Active Optical Cable’s (AOCs) have been quickly gaining traction and growing in popularity, especially in data center and enterprise spaces. AOCs offer a variety of benefits that will help turn up your networks faster and keep them up and running. The Basics: What is an AOC (and…
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How to Maximize Capacity with BiDi Technology
If history has shown us anything in the optical communications world, it’s that fiber resources are precious and costly to install or upgrade. Whether you are pushing to maximize the capacity over your own fiber plant, or looking to reduce leased fiber expenditures, you are not…
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What's the Future of Technology in a Post-Pandemic World?
"May you live in interesting times”. We have all heard this saying before that often gives us mixed messages. Are these interesting times going to bring positive change, or negatively impact how we go about our daily lives? While there's no crystal ball, it is safe to assume…
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Fiber Networking: Can Your Existing Fiber Be Doing More?
If you’re trying to make the most of existing fiber, you've probably thought about adding multiple wavelengths across individual fibers. Whether you have a PON network that could really use more bandwidth, or some CWDM channels on a path that you wish was doing more,…
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Planning Tips for Network Growth
Unlike that pair of pants or jeans, outgrowing your network is actually a good problem to have! As your business grows, the carefully (or not so carefully) planned network that you have is starting to feel cramped and maybe starting to impact your bottom line. Doing a network…
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New Product Announcement: WiFi Smart Probe
Now you can quickly and easily inspect and analyze the endface of fiber optic connectors, with Integra’s NEW WiFi, wireless scope and application. Learn more about this comprehensive and effective field portable solution. Key Benefits of the Smart Probe: Reliably gauge the…
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Breaking Down Buzzwords Part Two: Remote PHY
In part one of our "breaking down buzzwords" series, we dove into the details of Fiber to the What?! (FTTx). In part two of this series, we breakdown another hot topic that our customers, and the industry, have been buzzing about: Remote PHY. Remote PHY (often truncated to R-PHY…
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Infrastructure Investments: How to Reduce CAPEX and Maximize ROI
Technology is exciting, services are great, but cash is king! Everyone is looking to spend less and make more. In this article we look at how a service provider can do both, from an optical communications point of view. We highlight three ways to reduce capital expenditures…
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Breaking Down Buzzwords Part One: Fiber to the What?! (FTTx)
Sometimes buzzwords get thrown around so much that we're hesitant to admit when we're out in the cold on a trend. In this ongoing series, we’ll breakdown some terms that people have been talking about recently (and in some cases, have been talking about for awhile) and give you…
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New Year's Resolution: Getting Your Network in Shape for 2020
Your business depends on your network and while some networks have been carefully planned out, others have grown “organically”. Whatever your network structure, here are some tips for improving it without breaking the bank. Let's jump in. A Fiber Saved is a Fiber Earned If you…