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38 Artificial Intelligence: Then, Now, and
What to Expect in the Age of IoT: As the ICT
industry is transitioning into the IoT world of
network convergence and IP device-driven global
connectivity, ICT designers and installers should
become familiar with AI’s general capabilities,
misconceptions, trends, and its most lucrative
uses in order to recommend, design and build the
most innovative and efficient networks for their
enterprise customers. By Gerry Christensen
48 Implementing Next-Generation PON
Technologies over Existing Optical Fiber
Infrastructure: Discover POL’s advantages for
enterprise LANs: simplicity in design; less equipment
and cabling; centralized management; lower
energy requirements; ease of testing; and futureproofing.
As POL becomes more prevalent, it is
important for ICT design engineers, installers, and
project managers to grasp an overview of POL and
how this technology can be upgraded and tested.
By Guillaume Lavallee, Steven Van Den Bergh, and
Cemil Canturk
56 A Firestopping Primer for Today’s Buildings:
Modern structures are filled with combustible
materials, making penetration firestops and a well
installed firestop system more important than ever
before. Learn about the standards, ratings, testing
and more that will ensure the firestop system
becomes a reliable component of a building’s
overall life-safety system. Lives depend on it.
By Justin Pine, RCDD
FROM THE PRESIDENT
05 Changing Lives and Connecting
the World By Jeff Beavers, RCDD, OSP, CFHP
COVER ARTICLE
06 Intelligent Buildings and ICT: Preparing for
Buildings of the Future: One of the areas of rapid
change is Intelligent Building (IB) design. While
many have not had the opportunity to work on
an IB project, the time to get smart about how to
design for an IB and understand the implications
to the data and voice systems is now.
By Patti Fisher, RCDD, DCDC, OSP, RTPM,WD
18 Designing & Installing Infrastructure
for IIoT: What does the fourth industrial revolution
(Industry 4.0) mean for ICT infrastructure designers
and installers? It means understanding the unique
characteristics of these challenging environments
well enough to design and install robust and
reliable IP infrastructure systems to support the
coming explosion of the Industrial Internet of
Things (IIoT). By Luke Young, RCDD
28 Do Not Build Intelligent Buildings with
Dumb Security: Smart technology advancements
are being introduced at a furious pace. What is
largely ignored, however, is how dumb security is
when it comes to making these so-called smart
things work. Building automation systems are
inching closer to the edge, drawing interest to the
4-point security unikernels model as a potentially
viable solution. By Ian Eyberg
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