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he great benefits offered by OM4 technology, coupled with the demand for ever more bandwidth, mean that data centre managers need
to plan for 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet solutions today. Failure to do so will lead to haphazardly deployed solutions – inevitably expensive and complex. Whether implementing or upgrading a network, it is critically important that proper attention is paid to the many
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advantages that an OM4 system brings with it. Next generation multimode, or OM4, offers a range of potential benefits to organisations looking to future proof their data centre cabling infrastructure today.
Fast, reliable hosting The digital universe continued its skyrocketing growth even during a severe global economic downturn. The creation and replication of new digital information
The physical IT infrastructure within the data centre is critical.
Carsten Fehr of Draka Data Communications looks at why OM4 is set to accelerate the move to 10 Gigabit Ethernet in the data centre.
set a record in 2009 by growing to 800 billion gigabytes, 62 per cent over the previous year. The expansion of the digital universe is expected to gain further momentum over the next decade, increasing 44 fold to 35 trillion gigabytes by the year 2020.
Behind this information explosion lie a number of trends – driven by information technology developments. In the consumer world, the rise of social networking websites and applications
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