DATA CENTRE PREDICTIONS
example, sales organisations are giving their
reps video-conferencing capabilities, so
prospects can view testimonials or product
demonstrations and repair personnel are
accessing videos that show the steps in
a maintenance procedure. Two bigger
examples are driverless cars and entire
‘Smart Cities’ that require huge bandwidth.
Ehab Kanary, Vice President of
Enterprise, Middle East and
Africa, CommScope
that for their companies to stay relevant,
their businesses need to transform.
As 5G networks and devices start to
come online in 2019, this will drive
several kinds of technology that will be
needed. Data centre managers simply
need to be prepared.
There are five technologies that will
continue to significantly impact data
centres in 2019: 5G wireless, the Internet
of Things (IoT), virtual/augmented
reality (VR/AR), Blockchain and Artificial
Intelligence (AI).
While widespread deployment of 5G
isn’t happening for at least a few years,
data centres in 2019 have to prepare for
it. Infrastructure must evolve to support
higher wireless bandwidth and more
ubiquitous data usage.
Companies and building owners are
looking beyond just Wi-Fi to enable
strong and consistent in-building mobile
wireless services with distributed
antenna systems (DAS).
In the outdoor environment, service
providers are upgrading and expanding
their fibre networks to carry wireless
data back to the core of the network,
or in many cases, to edge data centres
for situations where local processing is
required for low-latency applications like
driverless cars or remote surgery.
In this article, we’ll look at how these
technologies support the trend toward
Digital Transformation in the data centre. Technology like C-RAN (Cloud Radio
Access Networks or Centralised Radio
Access Networks) and edge computing
will be implemented in 2019 to support
5G wireless services because there will
be more data processed at the edges of
the network.
5G wireless IoT
In a very real sense, we’re moving toward
the Internet of Everything and the final link
between devices and the network is likely
to be wireless. One of the 5G use cases is to specifically
support IoT applications. The MicroMarket
predicts the UAE’s IoT market will more
than triple, reaching US$35 billion (Dh126
tn) by 2019.
5G wireless technology delivers significantly
higher data rates and significantly more
data in many more places.
Mobile workforces, from sales teams
to delivery, maintenance and repair
organisations, will all use more
sophisticated applications that rely on
faster and more reliable data transfers. And
even employees at the office will use 5G
services to rely even more heavily on their
phones and other portable devices. For
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can report on each machine’s usage and
inventory and relay that information to an
application that can schedule a re-order
and delivery of new supplies.
In this case the raw data triggers an
action to replace the inventory and this
is forwarded to the cloud as opposed
to routine status messages that often
contain no new useful information.
Autonomous truck fleets now leverage
the IoT to report location, fuel levels,
THERE ARE FIVE
TECHNOLOGIES
THAT WILL
CONTINUE TO
SIGNIFICANTLY
IMPACT DATA
CENTRES IN 2019.
As companies deploy thousands or
millions of wired and wireless sensors
that produce large amounts of raw
data, this data is turned into useful
information providing value for the user.
The processing of the data is being
placed closer to the source to reduce the
communication requirements.
For example, beverage companies are
providing dispensers with IoT sensors that
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