cabling
GENERATION GAME
Tony Robinson of Corning Optical Communications explains
why choice shouldn’t be an obstacle to your data centre evolution.
F
our TV channels, two
political parties, one
football team (ie. your local
one)… what the olden
days lacked in choice,
they more than made up for in sheer,
unbridled certainty.
We can blame technologists
for progress. Blame those pesky
innovators for dabbling in our sepia
stained nostalgia for an easier and
more predestined life. We never
wanted things to change – or did we?
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Dwelling on the past should
come with a health warning,
especially when it comes to the
complexities and challenges that
greet data centre professionals
today. Yes, there is unprecedented
pressure bearing down on you and
your data centre to achieve more
agility, efficiency and performance.
Yes, this in turn demands you
to deliver greater density, faster
provisioning and more accurate
management. And yet, in spite of all
this, the truth is you’ve never had it
so good.
No one is saying it’s simple today.
It’s just no longer a case of following
the same path as everyone else. In
the past everything about data centre
cabling was 10G and two-fibre; no ifs,
no buts, no argument. Now there is
real diversity in transceiver technology
driving choice like we’ve never seen
before. These successive waves of
technology innovation have diffused
the one way we had of progressing to