Wireless

In Germany, manufacturers of optical matrix switches, HUBER + SUHNER Polatis' network components are now also distributed by LASER COMPONENTS, thus broadening the reach of this product range. The right switch series is available for each area of application and each network structure.

Since the advent of the internet, IT teams have used many different network management techniques in search of a way to achieve optimal use of their bandwidth and efficient data traffic routing. Truly dynamic approaches have proved elusive. The latest generation wide area networking (WAN) technology, SD-WAN, which is software-based, revolutionises the WAN just as virtualisation has revolutionised the server. By Todd Kiehn, VP of product management at GTT

Signify has launched a new range of LiFi systems that includes a commercially available fast and reliable LiFi system. The range, branded Trulifi, leverages existing and future professional luminaires. Instead of using radio signals Trulifi uses light waves to enable highly reliable, secure two-way wireless communications at speeds far above most conventional workplace wireless technologies.

Carriers in China have been aggressively deploying 100G-capable OTN switching networks over the last few years, and now its largest carrier is poised to launch a new network to support government/enterprise leased-line services that will leverage the international standard for dynamically adjusting OTN connection bandwidth.

Broadcom has announced the production release of the BCM65550, a G.fast 212MHz system-level vector processor, enabling gigabit broadband services to be delivered to high density residential areas. Telecom operators can now deploy fibre to these locations and leverage the existing installed copper lines for the final gigabit speed connection.

It has been announced that Actisense have released the W2K-1, their NMEA 2000 WiFi Gateway with data logging technology that has the ability to record navigational and engine data. Like other devices on the market, the W2K-1 can transmit NMEA 2000 data using TCP and UPD while also offering support for conversion to NMEA 0183. 

Over the last few decades, life expectancy has increased dramatically. Thanks to a host of factors we are all, at least on average, set to live considerably longer lives than our predecessors. Depending on your gender, genetics, socioeconomic status, and environment, life into the eighties is now not uncommon, but there is a catch. 

It has been announced by Nordic Semiconductor, that OneMeter, an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) startup, has selected Nordic’s nRF51822 Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) System-on-Chip (SoC) to provide the wireless connectivity for its ‘OneMeter Beacon’, a device that provides companies with the ability to monitor and manage their energy usage data in ‘real time’.

Signal transmission solutions provider for mission-critical applications, Belden, has announced that its Magnum DX940e Industrial Cellular Router is now backed with Verizon certified 4G/LTE technology. This compact device offers reliable connections over wired and wireless networks in energy facilities and adheres to NERC CIP industry standards by delivering stricter security protocols and extended flexibility.

You may not be familiar with the phrase Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), but you probably take advantage of it every day as it encompasses all satellite based global location systems; GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou.  By Richard Edgar, Director of Communications Technology, Ensigma, Imagination Technologies