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Panduit: De-stressing The Data Center Infrastructure

MEC Digital — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 09:52:49 +0000

The IT industry does a wonderful job in advance positioning the next nice innovation. We’ve been simply a step away from the internet of things (IoT) for over 20-years, AI (Artificial Intelligence) has been around for as long as we can remember, and solid-state memory is about to take over from disk drives and tape, speeding access, saving space, energy and resources. Maturity of a technology is mapped using a ‘hype cycle’ idea model, in easy terms… as time moves forward the ‘hype’ becomes reality and ‘quantum leaps’ are ever nearer.

Preparing for tomorrow’s future is crucial for business survival

In data center network communications, multiple technologies are evolving to deliver growth of emerging, data-intensive applications from e-health and media and content delivery, to sensor connected devices and automotive vehicles.

With volumes of data set to grow exponentially, the tactic of gathering, storing, processing, and transmitting across the data center is seriously hindered without an infrastructure that meets latency and bandwidth performance requirements currently, and for the predictable future.

Indeed, once technologies like AI and Machine Learning (ML) become common, individual information sets can run to 100s of terabytes. Meanwhile, M2M data is predicted to outstrip enterprise and personal knowledge within the next 5years. This increase in data traffic is already making bottlenecks among traditional data centers, with each gateway and connection reducing the general performance potential of the system.

With an understanding of the opportunities on the market and also the technologies influencing change we can set up better and prepare our structures to work at the foremost acceptable levels. We can learn from the hyper-scale designers who are planning systems with equipment manufacturers to optimize necessities for use, to draw these aggressive applications into the cloud.

Each of those technological advances reflects the rise of a worldwide digital economy that is making a demand for larger network speed and performance from the internet backbone right into the core of the data center.

Key challenges for the infrastructure network are the ever-growing demand for quicker speed – 10GE, 25GE, 40GE, 50GE and 100GE nowadays, with 200GE – 400GE with expected rollout as early as 2019. In conjunction with new network architectures designed to maximize performance, the physical infrastructure should be designed to enable fast and seamless deployment of the latest switching technologies.

Data bottlenecks can still be a growing issue if infrastructure and data center businesses target short-term fixes. Network infrastructure is as important as data center power and cooling, without appropriate investment it may considerably reduce each life cycle and ROI.

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Ubiquiti: When Will We Hit The Limits of Gigabit Ethernet with Wi-Fi?

MEC Networks Corporation — Fri, 03 May 2019 02:41:53 +0000

Since the coming of the Internet, various mechanical enhancements were important to encourage the speeds that clients have generally expected. From dial-up to DSL, from 802.11b to 802.11ac, to give some examples these progressions have improved Internet experience and availability. Thus Wi-Fi brought much-included accommodation over wired connections yet decreased speeds. To moderate these constraints, Wi-Fi innovation has advanced to build speeds, as have wired benchmarks (for instance, from 10/100 to Gigabit Ethernet).

Lately, Wi-Fi has moved toward the speed of Gigabit Ethernet. This is the standard utilized by most wired connections to send and get information. In this blog section, we’ll look at the speed of current wireless gadgets and how they contrast with Gigabit Ethernet.

Comparing Gigabit Ethernet to Wi-Fi

It’s important we look at Ethernet in the same way we do Wi-Fi to help us compare speeds. If Ethernet were marketed as a Wi-Fi device, it would advertise the following speeds:

Note from these results that Gigabit Ethernet is actually a 2-Gigabit aggregate and 10/100 Ethernet is a 200-Megabit aggregate.

How Wireless Measures Up

Now let’s look at how wireless compares. Here is some data from the fastest enterprise 4×4 MU-MIMO APs currently on the market under different client loads:

4×4 80 MHz 802.11ac MU-MIMO AP (nearly ideal conditions):

Note that with all wireless speeds cited – with little changed in the environment – these numbers will often be 50% of the advertised speeds.

Chipset manufacturers, Wi-Fi firmware engineers, etc. are proud of these numbers, as they are the real-world doubling of throughput from 3×3 802.11ac SU-MIMO:

3×3 80 MHz 11ac AP (nearly ideal conditions):

50 clients: ~100 Mbps

As you can see, 4×4 MU-MIMO doubles performance, from ~100 Mbps to 200 Mbps aggregate TCP throughput.

Let’s summarize:

When Do Gigabit Ethernet Start Limiting Wireless Speeds?

While there have been a number of quicker alternatives to Gigabit Ethernet for many years (for example, 10-Gigabit, 25-Gigabit, etc.), these technologies have not yet been adopted on a wide scale. Understanding the data shown above leads us to consider the question, when will alternative multi-Gigabit Ethernet technologies really matter for the enterprise network?

Let’s look at some data:

So the answer to our question is:

Somewhere around two to three 4×4 MU-MIMO 80 MHz radios (plus a 2.4 GHz radio), depending on the ratio of downstream/upstream traffic.

So as you can see, Gigabit Ethernet does not limit the speeds of enterprise deployment APs that have a single 4×4 802.11ac MU-MIMO radio and a single 4×4 2.4 GHz radio.

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Video: How Industry 4.0 is Driving Digital Transformation

MEC Networks Corporation — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 04:06:30 +0000

With digital transformation expected to be in full swing in the 4th industrial revolution, preparing a resilient and solid technology infrastructure is necessary in order for organizations to meet and manage the demands of the future.

Learn more about how industry 4.0 is driving digital transformation:

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