INTELLIGENT CABLING
Wired
network
still
remains
important
Tarek Helmy is Regional Director Gulf and Middle East, South and East Africa at Nexans Cabling Solutions.
The two-decade lifecycle of
structured cabling carries it
through multiple generations
of technology systems
drawing attention to
standards says Tarek Helmy
of Nexans Cabling Solutions.
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A
decade ago none of us could
have imagined that we would be
computing with a mobile device,
while on the move. That the bulky PC that
sat on our desks would be transformed
into a fun hand-held device, both for work
and for social leisure. And that we could
carry it into and out of work. Or that we
would look for business solutions on what
is now the cloud. Or stream the latest news
clips on a mobile phone.
And most importantly, the repositories
of data that used to be stored previously
everywhere, are now the most valuable
assets of a business in today’s digital
connected age.
Yesterday’s networks are under
pressure to cope with the increasing
bandwidth demands of today and the
varying conditions under which they now
need to operate. Increasing number of
devices on the network, changing work
styles, changing composition of users,
more and more applications per device,
increased demands for compute linked to
richer user experiences, are skyrocketing
the expectations from network
performance.
And all this, while leading to the arrival
of the Internet of Things, where devices
and sensors go-live on networks and drive
demands of performance, reliability, and
security in an exponential fashion.
To meet these demands we see
wireless and cabled networks scale up
We are being
challenged by
the changing
application
environments and
increasing user
requirements.
Issue 11
INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS