Partner Insights

The quality and reliability of connectivity become critical to the smart city, especially for businesses that rely on it as providers of new services. For these enterprises, broadband infrastructure is increasingly being viewed as a utility like gas, electricity and water. This network report discusses connectivity as a fourth utility in Smart Cities.

The widespread adoption of virtualization and cloud computing has led to the need for new data center switching architectures that provide lower latency and higher throughput. This white paper provides an overview of fabric technology, along with design considerations and a practical look at implementing fiber connectivity that can accommodate changes in architecture.

Convergence of wireline and wireless networks, and the need for higher bandwidth with lower latency is driving the cloud computing environments to the edge of the networks. To help plan a successful edge data center, here’s a preliminary checklist and tips to consider for: location, power, heating and cooling, design and physical layer infrastructure.