Developments in data centres
What are the top trends, challenges and technologies driving data centre networks in 2023 and beyond?
What are the top trends, challenges and technologies driving data centre networks in 2023 and beyond?
The rise of the data centre has arguably driven much of the demand for greater bandwidth and higher data rates. What does it mean for the components market?
Port-breakout deployments have become a popular networking tool and are driving the large industry demand for parallel optics transceivers. Today, port breakout is commonly used to operate 40G/100G parallel optics transceivers as four 10G/25G links. Breaking out parallel ports is beneficial for multiple applications, such as building large scale spine-and-leaf networks and enabling today’s high-density 10/25G networks. The latter task is the focus of this article.
The Consortium for On-Board Optics (COBO) is looking to change networking equipment permanently. Andy Extance finds out why
Warehouse-scale data centres are stretching the limits of current networking technologies. Dr Ioannis Tomkos describes how advanced optics can remove performance bottlenecks to enable the data centres of the future
Vendors are developing products that support wavelength multiplexing over multimode fibre, providing an alternative to parallel links. Robert Roe reports
Architects of the largest data centres have set optical engineers a challenge: to create cheaper 100 Gigabit interfaces that span up to 2km. Roy Rubenstein reports
Some of the hottest topics from the OFC conference in San Diego
What are the top trends, challenges and technologies driving data centre networks in 2023 and beyond?
How North and Latin America are faring when it comes to fibre deployment
We round up the latest high-capacity optics for coherent optical transmission in 2023.
The optical technology and techniques that terrestrial network operators need to consider to achieve high-performance in challenging conditions
Nesa Scopic advises on the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) fire safety standards for fibre cables, and how to choose the optimal cabling for the correct setting
Mattias Fridström offers his take on the telecoms topics that are going to matter in the next 12 months
Teresa Monteiro reveals why there is more to open networking than physical device interoperability