Category: Trends
Artificial Intelligence for Networks?
Can artificial intelligence (AI) carry out specific jobs in the networks and replace people? R&M Product Manager Reinhard Burkert takes a look at how AI and connectivity interact.
5G Market Gets Rolling
As one of the first countries in Europe, Switzerland auctioned licenses for 5G services in February 2019. The market is raring to go – even in other countries. But the rollout will take time.
IT Asset Management – Why?
Data centers proudly present their many computers, servers and in fact the entire network. But do they have a 100% overview of all IT devices over the entire life cycle?
Infrastructure Planning for Edge Computing
The trend toward edge computing is leading to a paradigm shift in cabling. R&M provides information on planning criteria for edge data centers.
Technologies for 400 Gigabits per Second
The time has come for 400 Gigabits per second in data center FO networks. Fast transceivers are raring to go. R&M is pursuing a forward-looking idea with the Consortium for On-Board Optics.
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...