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FROM THE PRESIDENT
05 2020—A New Decade—A New Vision
By Todd W. Taylor, RCDD, NTS, OSP
COVER ARTICLE
06 Tomorrow’s Modern Data Center:
Tomorrow’s data center depends on the support
of the most reliable optical fiber infrastructure.
Discover the latest solutions and how to design
and install the fiber infrastructure, made up of
cables with thousands of fibers and potentially
millions of connections that will likely support and
tie together clusters of data centers often across
hundreds of kilometers.
By Seán Adam
18 Data Center Optical Fiber Cabling
Decisions Based on Scale: For the purposes of
comparison, there are three categories of data
centers: traditional enterprise, cloud scale, and
hyperscale. Learn how each of these categories
has a different set of cabling and connectivity
requirements when considering transmission,
data rate, installation, latency, density, maintenance
and migration.
By Mike Connaughton, RCDD, CDCD, Brooke Ford,
Joost Grillaert, Ph.D. and Michael Wang
26 Definition of an Edge Data Center—404
NOT FOUND: Take the journey beyond the
buzzwords, media hype, and often conflicting
forecasts to understand the current status and
the future potential of “the edge” and edge data
centers (EDCs) that will impact the ICT industry.
By Sean Kelly, RCDD
38 The Connector: Revolutionizing Connected
Infrastructure: The explosive growth of both
hyperscale and the cloud has pushed network
connectivity demand to levels never before
experienced. This has created extraordinary
demands on data center connected infrastructure
capacity, thereby challenging the ability
of enterprises to deliver. The solution to this
challenge, in part, is revolutionary innovation
in connector technology.
By Steve Cheng
52 Leading Innovations in Health Care
Empowered By Wireless: Learn about the latest
technology innovations in health care and why
wireless does not mean less wire. Thus, there are
significant implications to the amount of cable
and cable pathways, intermediate distribution
frames (IDFs), equipment rooms (ERs), and data
center space when additional wireless technology
and requirements are included.
By Mark Niehus, RCDD
59 The ICT Talent Shortage: Unemployment
rates across the United States and even in some
international markets are near historic lows, so
why do not more individuals enter the ICT field?
This article provides an in-depth look into the
ways this important challenge may be solved.
By Randal R. Reusser, RCDD, TECH, CT
APRIL/MAY/JUNE 2020
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