Name: Beyond Bandwidth: Managing Your Assets in Today’s Fiber Network
Start: 2014-09-23T15:00:00Z
End: 2014-09-23T15:41:56.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.32

For information and communications technology (ICT) professionals...

This webinar, featuring Charlene Roux (VIAVI) and Philip Ward (Senko Advanced Components) will discuss the market drivers that led to the emergence of VSFF (Very Small Form Factor) connectors in the data center market and consider how these new connector types will impact both network operators and those responsible for inspecting and testing the network. Particular attention will be given to Tier-1 and Tier-2 testing requirements and best practices for VSFF-based fiber links. As part of the TIA Fiber Optics Tech Consortium (FOTC) webinar series, attending the webinar will earn viewers one BICSI Continuing Education Credit (CEC).

Next-gen VSSF Data center Connectivity and Certification Testing

Join the Fiber Optics Tech Consortium (FOTC) for our upcoming webinar! Tap into the expertise of our members and earn a BICSI Continuing Education Credit. While MPO connectors are gaining in popularity, they also come with their share of challenges. Especially in a data center context. Ensuring link performance and getting it right the first time is critical. How to ensure MPO link performance? It all starts with testing. This session will cover what you need to do to ensure the quality of your link.

You will learn the following actions:

    Perform proper inspection of MPO connectors in a data center,
    Identify the main causes of failure and which tools to use to clean when needed
    Validate the polarity type of MPO links
    Confirm link continuity Select the right referencing method to perform testing.

Attendees will earn one BICSI Continuing Education Credit

5 Best practices for testing MPO Connectors in Data Centers

Join the Fiber Optics Tech Consortium (FOTC) for our upcoming webinar! Tap into the expertise of our members and earn a BICSI Continuing Education Credit. Understanding fiber polarity and how to connect a system with absolute certainty is key to a successful installation. This webinar will discuss the following “hot topics” about polarity and give attendees the information they need to be confident in their installation.
 
- Managing polarity in 16 and 24 fiber cabling systems (specific to higher speed data center transceivers)
- The new changes to the ‘E’ version of TIA-568 (including the new A/B Universal wirings)
- Evolving polarity rules for micro form-factor connectors (CS, SN & MDC)
- Managing polarity in transceiver “break-out” applications
- Gender & polarity changing MPO connectors & how the aid cable plant migration

Beyond Method A, B & C: Managing Polarity & Gender in High-Speed Cabling Systems

Join the Fiber Optics Tech Consortium (FOTC) for our upcoming webinar! Tap into the expertise of our members and earn a BICSI Continuing Education Credit. Come to this webinar to get caught up on a year’s worth of activity in the fiber market place. What are the current trends for applications and cable types. Learn about the latest connectors that are being introduced and finally, how to test those new connectors in the field. Topics covered include:
- What's driving fiber mix changes in the data center?
- New MPO 16 & VSFF Connectors - benefits, roadmap, and changes to transceivers
- Testing and Inspection of MPO16 APC and VSFF Connectors

Fiber Trends, Port Breakouts, Transceivers, Connectors & Testing in Data Center

Join the Single Pair Ethernet Consortium (SPEC) for our upcoming webinar! Tap into the expertise of our members and earn a BICSI Continuing Education Credit.This webinar will provide an introduction to Single Pair Ethernet, the current status of standards for Physical Layer Testing, the types of testing, and how to meet the challenges that occur. Attendees will earn 1 BICSI CEC for attending.

The Challenges of 10BASE-T1L SPE Physical Layer Testing

Join the Fiber Optics Tech Consortium (FOTC) for our upcoming webinar! Tap into the expertise of our members and earn a BICSI Continuing Education Credit. Optical transceivers are a mission critical component for every optical network. The number of optical transceivers being used is growing quickly as organizations need to be able to reliably transmit information securely at higher data rates with faster transmission. 

This webinar will review the different parts of optical transceivers and the common optical interconnect types including LC duplex, MPO and VSFF. It will cover some of the common challenges while working with optical transceivers and share practical ways to ways to address and avoid these challenges. This program is intended to provide helpful information to network installers, network designers and network owners who are or will be working with optical transceivers.

Caring for the SPF+, QSFP, QSFP-DD, OSFP optical transceivers in your network

Buildings need robust network infrastructure to become smart. A smart building network acts as the central nervous system that provides the critical connections between all the devices, sensors, systems, and occupants and allows them to communicate. Without a reliable, 24x7 available and secure network, the flow of data between the crucial functions of a building would not be possible. With the right network technology in place, the combination of building systems, including building security, HVAC, environmental sensors, lighting, and networking devices are now all be centrally orchestrated across the building’s network infrastructure. This helps building owners and managers address business objectives such as Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) and new operational efficiencies while providing a more desirable, healthy, and enjoyable indoor environment.  
This webinar will explore various elements and considerations of the smart building network infrastructure based on the technical assessment criteria developed by members of TIA for the SPIRE Smart Building Assessment and Verification Program by UL.
This includes but is not limited to:
• Cabling Infrastructure
• Wireless Coverage
• Expansion & Future Readiness
• Network Infrastructure Security
• Network Resilience

Smart Building Connectivity: Technology for Future Ready Network Infrastructure

En medio del crecimiento exponencial de los Centros de Datos desde el borde hasta la hiperescala, el servicio confiable es un factor clave y para lograrlo y minimizar los riesgos, el estándar TIA-942 brinda la línea de base y el marco para la infraestructura de cualquier Centro de Datos que cubre todos los aspectos relacionados. a infraestructura como Arquitectónica (incluyendo ubicación), Eléctrica, Mecánica (Refrigeración), Telecomunicaciones, Seguridad, Vigilancia, Detección y Supresión de Incendios y Monitoreo. Para poder diseñar, construir el Centro de datos adecuado con la calificación adecuada en función del presupuesto, la tolerancia al riesgo y la aplicación comercial, el estándar TIA-942 y su certificación brindan la garantía al Operador del Centro de datos, al Propietario del centro de datos y a los Clientes de que el Centro de datos está construido con el propósito de dar un servicio verdaderamente confiable.

This webinar will earn attendees ONE BICSI CEC for LIVE Attendees only.

TIA-942 el standard de Centros de Datos y Como certificarse

Globally, data center networks are evolving rapidly to deliver capacity as quickly and efficiently as possible. With 400G, 800G and soon 1.6T switch ports using 100G or 200G lanes, Hyperscale and Cloud providers continue to raise the bar to enhance their customer’s online experience. Critical to that mission is the ability of data centers to scale to meet demands cost-effectively while reducing or maintaining transaction times. These large providers accelerate standards’ development and their needs drive related eco-systems to develop and adapt. Data rates are increasing as are fibers per port. Networks are flattening to improve responsiveness and redundancy. Is the timing right to jump from duplex to parallel applications?
 
This webinar will highlight catalysts and trends impacting network evolution along with efficiencies that are rapidly developing to improve the data center footprint. From ASICs within the switch through fiber cabling and connectivity innovations, changes that enable and provide benefits not easily achievable through legacy options will be reviewed.

Tipping Point Y23? Catalysts & Trends Impacting Network Evolution

Join FOTC Standards Chair Cindy Montstream for our annual standards update and earn 1 BICSI CEC. Please Note: This webinar will run longer than 1 hour, but it is not necessary to stay until the end to earn your certificate.

LAN Standards, News & Trends 2022 Update

Part 2 of our webinar series will educate viewers on three of the six categories of the SPIRE smart building assessment criteria: Sustainability, Power & Energy, and Health & Wellbeing. This webinar is the follow on to Part 1 which discussed Connectivity, Cybersecurity, and Life & Property Safety. 

Guest Moderator Patrick McLaughlin, Editor of Smart Building Technology Magazine, will join industry expert panelists to discuss how building owners and managers are measuring and improving operational performance in these categories and how a comprehensive smart building assessment program like SPIRE can help guide investment strategies that align building operations with business outcomes. With competing priorities like protecting occupants in a pandemic and improving a building’s carbon footprint, ownership teams can now leverage a single holistic assessment to gain a deeper understanding of a building’s functional performance and identify new opportunities to lower risk and enhance asset value through calculated technology investments.
 

Speakers:
Patrick McLaughlin, Smart Buildings Technology Magazine -– Moderator
Gayla Arrindell, Corning
Brian Brustad, AECOM
Chris Leonard, Microshare
Annick Villeneuve, Schneider Electric

Using SPIRE to Assess Sustainability, Power & Energy, and Health & Wellbeing

Now, more than ever, stadiums are turning to smart solutions for everything from efficient and cost-effective resource management, to dazzling fan engagements in response to shifting fan behavior and expectations. During this webinar, panelists from Delta Partners, Aecom, Comcast, and MachineQ will discuss trends within the Smart Stadium space and how IoT can help enhance stadium operations and security, deepen loyalty, and add value to the brand. They will also share an outlook on future smart building applications, such as intelligently monitoring air quality and water and solar production monitoring.   
  
Panelists include:     
Andrew Snead, Delta Partners 
Sam Chernak, Comcast  
Ali MacGregor, Aecom 
Keith Gornish, MachineQ

Smart Stadiums and Innovating the Fan Experience

In the midst of growth in edge computing driven by hyperscale entities, an important and emergent technology, CORD (Central Office Rearchitected as a Data Center) is being rapidly deployed by a majority of global carriers in support of their edge initiatives. In a CORD deployment, service providers reconfigure their existing municipal Central Office (CO) facilities into a low-latency edge computing ‘cloudlets’ and Colocation MTDC’s.

CORD initiatives strive to replace today’s purpose-built hardware with more agile software-based elements and in doing so, ensure that legacy carrier COs become an integral part of a larger cloud strategy, enabling resilient low latency network services to customers. 

This talk will focus on the following areas:

• What is CORD? Why CORD? 
• Explanation of the business/customer value proposition of CORD
•	Applications that benefit from CORD builds (5G, FTTx....)
•	Ongoing builds/carrier ecosystem
•	Technologies supporting CORD builds (optoelectronics, power distribution, fiber....) 
•	Reference architecture of a typical implementation
•	Physical differences in CORD infrastructure vs traditional Data Centers

Understanding CORD Deployments (Central Office Rearchitected as a Data Center)

An Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) is a device that tests the integrity of a fiber cable and is used for  building, certifying, maintaining, and troubleshooting fiber optic systems. Hand-held OTDRs build a virtual image of the fiber optic cable to determine the condition and performance capability of the fiber cable. These tools can also test components along the cable path like connection points, bends, or splices to analyze the cable’s capability from start to finish. This webinar will address what testing alternatives users should try first, when they have trouble with an installation, and when the situation would benefit from using an OTDR. The speakers will also discuss guidelines that will enable a more useful trace.  Here's your chance to learn from some of our most popular presenters -- Jim Davis and Adrian Young from Fluke Networks, and Sean Kelly from Light Brigade.  Attendees will earn one BICSI CEC.

When to use an OTDR

Over the past decade, the ICT industry has defined “the Edge” by using an evolving nomenclature and a variety of correlating applications encompassing everything from Far Edge, Near Edge and Enterprise Edge, to the IoT Edge, Edge Taxonomy, 5G Edge, and more. This murky understanding has caused the actual meaning of what constitutes as “the Edge” to easily get lost in translation. This webinar will feature a discussion with some of the authors of a new white paper published by TIA called, Where is the Edge? The speakers will explain previous and emerging edge concepts with the goal of identifying the common Edge architectures based on applications and users; simplifying the language used to describe or explain them; and, show where the Edge can be found today as well as where it will be found in the future.

Panelists include:
Marc Cram, Legrand
Jason Hamilton, Midpoint Technology Group
Keith Rutledge, Edgepoint

Moderated by Jacques Fluet, TIA

Where's the Edge?

Este webinar cubre la teoría básica de la transmisión de fibra óptica, las opciones de conectores, su inspección y mantenimiento. También cubre las pruebas de confiabilidad de los cables, su importancia  y qué significa para la implementación de la red.

Al inspeccionar los conectores de fibra óptica, se encuentran que numerosos proveedores de conectores y cables que ofrecen muchas opciones. Un hecho relevante es que los usuarios finales han descubierto, en los últimos años, que "no todos los conectores son iguales.  La calidad, confiabilidad y rendimiento de los componentes ópticos y los productos de ensamblaje de cables se aseguran seleccionando los mejores componentes desde su terminación y pulido,  utilizando las mejores prácticas y equipos. El producto final debe cumplir o superar los requisitos de todas las especificaciones relevantes de la industria, como las normas GR-326 y GR-1435 reconocidas internacionalmente.

How Connectors Influence Fiber Optics Network Reliability

This webinar covers basic fiber optic transmission theory, connectors options, inspection and maintenance. It also covers assemblies' reliability testing, why it is important, and what it means for network deployment.

When looking at fiber optic connectors, one will find numerous connector and cable suppliers offering many options. One key fact that end users have discovered in recent years is that ‘not all connectors are created equal’. The quality, reliability, and performance of optical components and cable assembly products are assured by selecting the best components and by terminating and polishing it using the best practices and equipment. The final product must meet or exceed the requirements of all relevant industry specifications, such as the internationally recognized GR-326 and GR-1435 standards.

COMO LOS CONECTORES INFLUENCIAN EN LA CONFIABILIDAD DE UNA RED DE FIBRA ÓPTICA

Get a closer look at SPIRE, the industry's first holistic smart buildings assessment and rating program. This 2-part webinar series will educate viewers on the six categories of assessment criteria and measurements. Part 1 will dive into Connectivity, Cybersecurity, and Life & Property Safety.

Panelists will share how SPIRE criteria were developed and how the program measures performance and provides building owners and managers with the information they need to drive more effective technology investment strategies.

Connectivity is the common thread that ties together operational technologies and enables smart building applications. The need for more connected devices also increases the risk for cyberattacks that need to be identified and addressed. Additionally, in the wake of a global pandemic, owners and managers are exploring how smart technologies support safer indoor environments for tenants and visitors. 

With competing priorities for building owners, it has never been more critical for them to have a tool that helps break down silos and elevate strategies to achieve business goals.

Panelists include:
- Sudhi Sinha (UL) 
- Gayla Arrindell (Corning)
- Jason Christman (Johnson Controls)
- Dan Michaud (Arup)
- Mia Raths (MRP Properties)

Assessing Smart Buildings With SPIRE: Connectivity, Cybersecurity, and Safety

Join TIA as they host a panel discussion with different winners of TIA QuEST Forum’s Global Sustainability Awards as they explore their unique journeys to improving their organization’s sustainability practices. Each panelist will share insights into how they created a plan, put the plan into practice, assessed their organization’s sustainability plan, and how they measured the wide range of benefits that were produced. Additionally, the guest speakers will share the most significant challenges they encountered along the way and how they overcame them in order to help other organizations looking to start their own journey.

Moderator:         Ken Koffman, TIA
Panelists:           Klaus Grobe, ADVA 
                           Nancy Patterson, Teltech Group
                           Annie Bevan, Superior Essex

The Corporate Sustainability Journey: Lessons Learned & Success Stories

Managing physical connectivity layer in any data center is a challenge. In today’s fiber-rich, highly complex, ultra-high density environment of data centers it can seem virtually impossible. So more data centers are relying on automated infrastructure management (AIM) solutions to track and manage their growing network.
 
Join intelligent connectivity expert Michael German of CommScope for a look at the strategies behind the deployment of AIM systems in data centers

Beyond Bandwidth: Managing Your Assets in Today’s Fiber Network

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