Category: Trends
Fear of the Future
How Science and New Technologies Are Threatening our Collective Psyche.
Multiplying Fiber Optics
Ribbon fiber cables are taking the market by storm. They help network operators to multiply the number of fibers in existing ducts in a surprising way.
Augmented Reality for Installers
How can Augmented Reality (AR) help installers in their work? R&M sees it as a possibility for facilitating cabling and assembly in data centers and buildings.
Cabling Hyperscale Data Centers – but how?
Keeping track of thousands of fiber optic cables... This is an enormous challenge for hyperscale data centers. R&M has the answers.
Planning a New LAN with Cat. 8.1 – Recommendations
Ten gigabits per second is followed by 25 and 40 gigabits per second. These are the next milestones on the Ethernet roadmap for copper cabling. The new standards are: Cat. 8.1, 25GBase-T and 40GBase-T. Whoever is planning LAN cabling to...
Fiber to the Home Soon to be Even Faster
The next generation of fast FO networks is on the horizon. After 10 Gbit/s downstream the focus is now on symmetric 10Gibt/s as well as solutions for 100 Gbit/s. ITU and IEEE workgroups are working on the standards. And for...
Flat and Flexible: Electronics of the Future
A smartphone is actually an entire computer. And nevertheless, the multifunctional, hyperintelligent phone is incredibly thin. And that is all down to the trend toward flat electronics. Network technology too is set to benefit from flat innovations. And R&M is...
Quantum Physics Put Simply
Swiss scientist and entrepreneur Lars Jaeger takes a look at the future of quantum physics for R&M customers. He can explain the almost incredible possibilities of quantum physics and quantum computers simply and illustrates their significance for data transmission.
LED Lighting via Data Network
R&M is supporting initiatives for digital office and room ceilings. The aim of these digital ceiling initiatives is to integrate the ceiling infrastructure in the local data networks to network and power LED lighting, sensors and lots more.
New Category of Fiber Optics: OM5
A new category of fiber optics and a new modulation technique are paving the way to a faster future: OM5 and SWDM4. These give data center managers the opportunity to opt for more favorably priced multimode cabling.
The new dimension of Moore’s law
In this R&M interview scientist Lars Jaeger details the future of chip development. He can see Moore’s law, a well-known phenomenon, entering a new dimension. The uniform increase in semiconductor performance is coming to an end, but exciting new developments...
The simple rule for cleaning fiber optics
Optical fibers must be handled with care. They don’t like being folded, bent or exposed to dust. Careless handling of optical fibers can lead to problems with data transmission and possibly even total destruction of the connection. R&M’s simple rule...