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CommScope imVision

MEC Digital — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 08:06:03 +0000

Information and insights to manage today’s growing and complex network

Data pushes your network forward. CommScope imVision keeps your data flowing efficiently and freely by managing your physical layer infrastructure in real-time. You can gain the visibility and insights needed to make the right decisions as networks converge and grow more complex with this industry-leading Automated Infrastructure Management (AIM) platform.

CommScope imVision’s intuitive, web-based architecture allows you to monitor and document your cabling infrastructure while tracking the location of all connected network devices. Its actionable, real-time data and performance insights will enable you to optimize capacity, availability, and efficiency.

CommScope imVision by the Numbers

Why Choose CommScope imVision?

CommScope simplifies network complexity. This solution minimizes network silos, consolidates wired and wireless infrastructure, automates network monitoring, and provides a single source for managing your entire physical layer.

From structured cabling to wired and wireless access networks, CommScope’s IT and OT networks deliver the always-on availability and security that connects and protects your people, data, and things.

Backed by more than 40 years of product innovation and industry leadership, CommScope helps guide the trajectory of tomorrow’s evolving network technologies. A global network of manufacturing, distribution and service capabilities ensures you have the expertise and solutions when and where you need them.

Key Benefits of CommScope imVision

Supports using standard copper and fiber patch cords and is the only one that supports three different sensing technologies

Supports field upgrade without disrupting network service and modifying patch cords

Complies with the requirement for PoE monitoring

CommScope NETCONNECT ®

MEC Digital — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 08:02:34 +0000

Reliable structured cabling solution for enterprise applications

With a complete range of copper and fiber solutions, NETCONNECT delivers proven performance across the enterprise. Designed for simplicity and engineered for flexibility, it meets your physical layer needs today and in the future.

The NETCONNECT family of copper products includes twisted-pair cabling and patch cords, panels, jacks, and accessories for your Category 6A and Category 6 channels. On the other hand, NETCONNECT’s fiber solutions offer multimode and single-mode options and support applications ranging from campus and outside plant installations to data centers, buildings, and fiber to the desktop. Modular connectivity components—including fiber enclosures and patch panels, pre-terminated cassettes, modules, and adapters—enable you to deploy quickly and migrate easily as your needs grow.

Why Choose NETCONNECT

One Copper

One copper/fiber portfolio for all your structured cabling enterprise LAN, data center, and campus applications

WebTrak

WebTrak® tracks cables through the manufacturing process and provides online access to test reports to verify performance

25-Year

NETCONNECT

25-year Solutions Warranty

Global

Global R&D effort with more than 10,000 patents and patent applications

CommScope: 6 Data Center Trends for 2022

MEC Updates — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 06:01:21 +0000

We will witness a continuation of last year’s data center movements and more in 2022 because the pandemic and its effects have had a deeper influence on our lives than we imagined at the beginning of 2021.

Last year, we witnessed the fast progress of cloud migration. More edge data centers are also being created. IoT and “smart everything” is driving cloud movements, and IoT usage will continue to rise. AI has become more important in processing increasingly huge volumes of data for latency-sensitive applications. Finally, the necessity to process more data faster pushed the development of the single-mode fiber.

Many individuals anticipated to be back in blended work settings by the middle of 2021, yet we are still mostly adopting remote work setups. Indeed, remote work may become permanent for many knowledge workers, at least part of the time.

We will now go deeper into the 5G, IoT, AI/ML, and remote work trends.

6 Data Center Trends

1. 5G will keep on elevating.

Service providers and private organizations will keep assessing the most practical methods of increasing capacity and capabilities in 5G implementation plans. In terms of the data center, 5G provides quicker access to information, which will push more edge data center construction. As more data becomes latency-sensitive and demands faster access, we will see a shift away from the large core, small edge data center design towards one consisting of a smaller core and larger edge.

Cloud core 5G will considerably boost data center construction in private firms. If you can develop 5G on cloud architecture privately with local radios in the cloud, you will have a very data-heavy, latency-sensitive application. This need will push the faster development of data centers and edge data centers. This 5G trend will begin in 2022, and it will last for several years as enterprises negotiate the right to utilize the 5G spectrum from carriers.

2. IoT will rise steadily.

The rise of IoT reveals no indications of stopping. According to Statista, the global number of IoT devices will nearly triple from 8.74 billion in 2020 to more than 25.4 billion in 2030. We anticipate further significant commercial investments in IoT. Managers are looking more closely at how they can operate their businesses more efficiently – for example, streamlining shipping – and adding sensors in the proper places can assist with that endeavor.

Everything leads back to data when it comes to enabling IoT and smart things. Consider all the little data points involved in something as basic as a door sensor. When is it open, when is it closed, is it locked or unlocked, who opened it or who locked it? Increase that by the number of sensor applications (temperature, occupancy, lighting, water consumption, and so on). That infrastructure is all housed in the data center.

Furthermore, we are witnessing the growing amounts of data sensitive to time and must be handled at the edge. Hence, the IoT is fuelling the expansion of edge data centers. Today, public cloud providers are doing most of the edge buildouts, and other providers are establishing edge data centers for latency-sensitive applications like video. (Consider the rise in streaming video services as an essential driver of this development.) In fact, video applications – entertainment, security monitoring, data mining, and safety, for example – will have the most significant influence from IoT in the data center. Instead of evaluating static data or photographs, businesses must save that data and act on it in real time.

3. Cloud migration will persist.

People are flocking to the cloud because of its scalability and low cost. In late 2021, HPE claimed a 46 percent rise in year-over-year orders for its GreenLake cloud platform, while AWS recorded a 40 percent increase. Renting and scaling something in days versus planning and developing something in years is a convincing argument for the cloud. The architecture for both public and private clouds will expand. Large organizations will utilize a hybrid strategy, while smaller businesses will rely only on the public cloud.

The reason for gradual growth is compliance — data security and compliance limitations. As an illustration, organizations and governments have compliance laws concerning preserving some data within a nation or on-site locations, or protecting healthcare information.

4. We will increasingly depend on AI and AR.

AI and machine learning (ML) application cases paired with augmented reality (AR) will increase speedily in 2022. Facebook announced a name change and is now orienting the whole corporation around the AR-driven metaverse. AR will also be needed much more in interfaces, for B-to-C marketing, sales, training, and service applications. For example, AR for data center technicians may be linked to a task order application so that they can use a smartphone to show them which cable to repair in a switch.

The emergence of the metaverse will also enhance the use of augmented reality. In the very near future, consumers will be able to replicate a physical encounter with a virtual one. We have become accustomed to seeing each other on video, and we will become accustomed to seeing each other in augmented reality settings.

5. Single-mode fiber use will increase alongside the move to 400/800-gigabit networks.

Adoption of single-mode fiber has surged. While multimode fiber is still prevalent, single-mode fiber deployments are outpacing multimode ones. As data center bandwidth approaches 400 or 800 Gbps, we are witnessing more single-mode fiber applied in cloud and hyperscale data centers.

You may believe that because you are now at 10Gb or 100Gb, the shift to 400Gb is a long way off. However, if you total up the number of 10Gb (or faster) ports you’re responsible for maintaining, you’ll realize that the need to upgrade to 400Gb and beyond isn’t all that far away.

5. Remote work setups will be the dominant choice.

Remote work will become the norm, and IT managers are considering how to effectively prepare for it. The usage of videoconferencing for business, education, and leisure in 2021 had a significant influence on the data center, and we expect this trend to continue in 2022. As individuals record live video chats, a lot of video storage is necessary, and users demand quick, jitter-free access to that footage. This places additional strain on data centers.

As 5G, IoT, remote work, and cloud migration impose additional demands on data centers, IT managers will counteract by increasing storage, employing AI and ML to process data more quickly, constructing edge data centers, and deploying single-mode fiber to enhance speeds. Despite continued COVID and supply chain challenges, we expect a surge in data center activity as IT managers prepare for the new normal.

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CommScope Systimax

MEC Digital — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 02:13:35 +0000

Structured Cabling Providing Industry-Leading Bandwidth, Power, and Intelligence

CommScope’s premier copper and fiber structured cabling solution, SYSTIMAX®, provides the combination of power and high-bandwidth data connectivity and the flexibility to support advanced capabilities as you move to the ceiling. This is also complemented by imVision®, an automated infrastructure management solution, providing visibility into the physical network. With SYSTIMAX as your foundation, your network is ready to meet today’s demand— and evolve to meet tomorrow’s.

Whether it is network convergence, power, and data, IoT, or other applications, SYSTIMAX can help you address your toughest challenges—today and tomorrow.

TRENDS

Mobility

You expect connectivity everywhere, and our structured cabling provides the bandwidth and power needed to make technologies like 5G, Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi 6E possible.

Bandwidth

The need for bandwidth within the network continues to increase. Our copper and fiber structured cabling supports everything you need to give you an infrastructure that is ready for future applications.

Power

Power consumption is rising as PoE devices become more prevalent. Structured cabling supports applications up to 100 watts at 100 meters and provides unique solutions beyond the standards.

Network Convergence

IT and OT applications are converging onto structured cabling. Whether the connection is in the wall or in the ceiling, or you are concerned with power or bandwidth, we have a solution.

CommScope Smart City Solutions

MEC Digital — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 01:31:00 +0000

A bright smart cities future is built on smart networks

Network Infrastructure for responsive and efficient communities

Powerful Benefits of Smart Cities

Sustainability

Efficiency

Quality of Life

Safety

CommScope Smart City Solutions

Wireline Connectivity

Fiber, copper, and RF

Cable-power and fiber

Modular and scalable

Smart Building Solutions

Wired and wireless connectivity

PoE connectivity

Automated infrastructure management

Data Center Solutions

Fiber and copper connectivity

Automated infrastructure management

Edge data center solutions

Wireless Solutions

In-building wireless

4G and 5G small cells

Public Safety

Aesthetic Concealment Solutions

Smart poles

Underground solutions

Concealment structures

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CommScope Power Fiber

MEC Digital — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 00:00:22 +0000

Complete “rack to device” power and communication solution to remote devices

Simplify the addition of new small cells, Wi-Fi access points, IP Cameras, VoIP phones, and other devices by distributing power and fiber through the same cable to anywhere a network connection and power are required.

Practical Solution

Hybrid cables deliver reliable fiber optic signals to and from devices along with low voltage DC.

Easy to deploy

High-performance, bend-tolerant fiber to make our cable pliable and effortless to pull.

Simple Installation

Uncomplicated electrical designs save on labor and material costs.

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Achieve a Future-Ready Network with CommScope

MEC Digital — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 18:23:17 +0000

Manage the extraordinary demands of our current situation

Moving forward, the need for a reliable and strong network is central in rebuilding the past COVID-era.

Maximize current infrastructure by deploying automated infrastructure management system.

Strengthen the network with a strategy that supports non-disruptive scaling.

Simplify systems integration with a complete and compatible single-sourced solution.

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CommScope Explains What IoT, 5G, and Smart Cities All Have In Common

MEC Digital — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 07:10:32 +0000

CommScope’s Morne Erasmus explains what IoT, 5G and smart cities all have in common.

Read any tech news story today and chances are high that you’ll see something concerning IoT, 5G or smart cities. These are all hot topics, but did you know all of them have CommScope in common?

To make things “smart” and improve overall efficiency, we connect IoT devices through a network to the cloud (and each other).

Thus, anything “smart” requires connectivity, both wired and wireless, at least in most cases. The 5G networks of the future can bring refined connectivity to these edge IoT devices with higher speeds, more machine-to-machine connections, and extremely low latencies – enabling a brand new generation of applications and use cases that we haven’t yet thought of.

Once we connect all the eyes and ears (IoT sensors) of the world to the data center brain, we can begin generating intelligent information to drive new analytics and services. As well, more processing power is shifting to the edge, with the deployment of MEC (Mobile Edge Computing) moving closer to the particular endpoints and users to enable lower-latency applications.

All of these IoT edge devices and MECs need a home near to the users, that is why we are seeing city streetlights morphing into smart poles.

Streetlights are uniquely spaced throughout the city; they provide power and altitude and are prepared for remodeling with LED replacements. Today, cities are eyeing 2 kinds of smart poles for replacing legacy streetlights:

IoT streetlight pole – A streetlight pole can support public Wi-Fi deployments, environmental sensors, gunfire detection and LED lighting control upgrades. Adding IoT edge devices transforms humble streetlight poles into smart IoT poles.
Telco pole – These are the typical small cell poles deployed by carriers or neutral hosts to support cellular connectivity in dense areas. These poles are designed for connectivity and will play a crucial role in 5G mmWave deployments. By adding IoT devices, simple telco poles become smart telco poles. With telco poles, the connectivity backbone delivering a path between the edge and also the cloud is already established, thereby enabling quicker deployments. Thanks to the larger type factor of small cell equipment, physical constraints should be an early and primary guideline for aesthetic concealment in cities.

It should be noted that smart poles are a part of a smart ecosystem and no single company can go at this alone. We are constantly asked if CommScope has any plans to create IoT sensors, software, apps or services for smart poles and our answer is “no, we need an ecosystem.” put simply, these interconnected products and services require multiple players to work harmonical to offer complex services.

This is why the industry must support an open ecosystem that enables customers to decide on their own edge devices, software, and cloud providers. This is notably important because of the long lifecycle (decades) of public projects compared to typical enterprise (years) engagements. Additionally, regulatory guidelines should also be considered.

At CommScope, we offer the physical layer for smart poles and do that exceptionally well. This starts with the fiber and copper solutions connecting all the racks inside a data center. From there, we offer outside fiber solutions to connect these data centers to the central offices (head ends) for the carriers and to the business/home or macro/metro cell tower. At these endpoints, we usually see the conversion from wireline to licensed or unlicensed spectrum wireless.

These wireless networks also are experiencing constant changes where licensed (4G/5G) and unlicensed (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LoRa, etc.) are commencing to converge. For instance, smart buildings are expected to produce reliable cellular coverage within the building along with ubiquitous Wi-Fi and support for IoT wireless networks. Add the upcoming CBRS private networking play and we shortly realize we are building multiple networks under one roof – all delivering ones and zeros to endpoints. How can all these networks converge in the future?

By providing the connectivity piece in this advanced puzzle, CommScope adds tremendous value to the client. we will still build out our ecosystem so we can provide complete solutions with our partners. So, the next time you read something regarding IoT, 5G or smart city projects, know that we at CommScope are providing the wired and wireless connectivity to make the world even smarter with our #smartcityconnectivity

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CommScope Recognized As One Of The Best In The Industry By Cabling Installation & Maintenance Innovators Award 2019

MEC Digital — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 06:03:23 +0000

Three solutions from CommScope that received 2019 Cabling Installation and Maintenance Innovations Awards

Three CommScope products and systems are recognized among the best within the industry by the 2019 Cabling Installation & Maintenance Innovators Awards. A stellar third-party judging panel, which included cabling and communications system specifiers, designers, integrators and managers with vast professional experience, selected CommScope’s Copper LC-style connector, Ceiling Connector Assembly and imVision as award winners.

CommScope was recognized as an honoree across 3 categories:

Platinum Award: IEC 63171-1 Copper LC-style connector. With billions of IoT devices expected to be deployed in workplace buildings within the next 5 years, the Copper LC-style Connector gives a cost-effective wired solution that’s simple to deploy and can provide power and secure communications to end devices while maintaining a tiny form factor to support high-density applications.

Gold Award: Ceiling Connector Assembly. The Ceiling Connector provides maximum performance, flexibility, and sturdiness with the most simplified termination to ensure high-quality results in usually challenging operating locations, like over drop ceilings. Once installed, the plug-ended link can be used to connect to cameras, access points, and alternative ceiling-mounted devices.

Silver Award: imVision Enhancements. imVision is an automated infrastructure management system that helps IT departments create astute network connectivity decisions in real-time. With imVision enhancements, IT departments will monitor Power over LAN (PoE) distribution via in-building cabling infrastructure to ensure optimum operational conditions. Enhanced imVision provides a real-time view of the PoE state of each cable bundle and automatically updates cable status whenever changes are made. This capability ensures that cable installation bundle sizes are tailored to fit specific installation necessities.

“On behalf of the Cabling Installation & Maintenance Innovators Awards, I would like to congratulate CommScope on their platinum, gold and silver honoree status,” said Cabling Installation & Maintenance’s Chief Editor Patrick McLaughlin. “This competitive, unbiased program celebrates the most original and innovative products in the industry.”

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Commscope: 5 Fiber Optic Connector Criteria You Should Consider

MEC Digital — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:12:45 +0000

When choosing fiber connectors for a job, a great deal more than the price can cost you. Many criteria should be thought of and here are a few:

Which type of technology to use?
What is the true price of the connector?
Are special tools or coaching required?
What is the quality of the termination, aka performance consistency?
How much time can it take?

When looking at which connector technology to use, you would like to gauge your customer’s priorities to consider cost, time and performance. Cost is a simple factor to look at and its importance depends on the budget for the task. during a massive project where the budget has some flexibility, the connector’s cost might not make a difference. If you have a project where the budget is tight, the cost could be what keeps your project on course.

There are some technologies (mechanical splice and fusion splice-on connectors) that are designed to save you time. That time is only saved if you’re comfy with those technologies and/or are willing to invest the time to get coaching. Time isn’t only an element in meeting project deadlines — it conjointly means hours of labor. It might affect the cost of the job or lower your hourly wage depending on how the job was bid out.

When deciding between connector technologies, performance is additionally a key factor. It’s attributed with the longevity of client happiness. If you end their project within budget and on time, but they end up having network problems, then it won’t reflect well on you.

Here are the common connector technologies:

Epoxy and Polish: Bond field fiber within connector ferrule with epoxy, then field polish.
Mechanical Splice: join field fiber to factory-terminated fiber stub using V-Groove with mechanical clamp and index matching gel.
Splice-on: Bond field fiber to factory-terminated fiber stub employing a fusion splice within the connector.
Pigtail Splicing: Bond field fiber to factory-terminated pigtail using fusion splice outside connector.
Factory Termination: Factory pre-terminated fiber

CommScope has evaluated the top technologies and created a chart for simple reference. There are typically trade-offs with every technology, therefore it’s best to understand your customer’s priorities before proceeding.

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Commscope Philippines – MEC Networks Corporation

CommScope imVision

Information and insights to manage today’s growing and complex network

CommScope imVision by the Numbers

Why Choose CommScope imVision?

Key Benefits of CommScope imVision

Featured Products

Automated Infrastructure Management

SYSTIMAX® Structured Cabling

CommScope NETCONNECT ®

Reliable structured cabling solution for enterprise applications

Why Choose NETCONNECT

One Copper

WebTrak

25-Year

Global

Featured Products:

Copper Structured Cabling

Fiber Structured Cabling

CommScope: 6 Data Center Trends for 2022

6 Data Center Trends

1. 5G will keep on elevating.

2. IoT will rise steadily.

3. Cloud migration will persist.

4. We will increasingly depend on AI and AR.

5. Single-mode fiber use will increase alongside the move to 400/800-gigabit networks.

5. Remote work setups will be the dominant choice.

CommScope Systimax

Structured Cabling Providing Industry-Leading Bandwidth, Power, and Intelligence

TRENDS

Mobility

Bandwidth

Power

Network Convergence

Featured Products:

Copper Structured Cabling

Fiber Structured Cabling

Automated Infrastructure Management System

CommScope Smart City Solutions

A bright smart cities future is built on smart networks

Powerful Benefits of Smart Cities

Sustainability

Efficiency

Quality of Life

Safety

CommScope Smart City Solutions

Wireline Connectivity

Smart Building Solutions

Data Center Solutions

Wireless Solutions

Aesthetic Concealment Solutions

CommScope Power Fiber

Complete “rack to device” power and communication solution to remote devices

Practical Solution

Easy to deploy

Simple Installation

Achieve a Future-Ready Network with CommScope

Manage the extraordinary demands of our current situation

CommScope Explains What IoT, 5G, and Smart Cities All Have In Common

CommScope’s Morne Erasmus explains what IoT, 5G and smart cities all have in common.

Download Free CommScope Resource

CommScope Recognized As One Of The Best In The Industry By Cabling Installation & Maintenance Innovators Award 2019

Three solutions from CommScope that received 2019 Cabling Installation and Maintenance Innovations Awards

CommScope was recognized as an honoree across 3 categories:

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Commscope: 5 Fiber Optic Connector Criteria You Should Consider

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SYSTIMAX®
Structured Cabling