INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cabling
Expect an increase
in fibre optic cabling
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Shibu Vahid, Head of
Technical Operations,
R&M Middle East, Turkey
and Africa, explains
how the installation of
decentralised micro-data
centres will entail a wide-
scale increase in fibre
optic cabling. consideration as they have begun to cause
an additional exponential growth of IP
traffic while requiring ultra-low latency
even in remote places. The hyperscale
data centres that service providers have
been investing in today will not be able to
fully cover the new network, computing
and storage requirements of the coming
years. Therefore, telcos will have to extend
computing power to the edge of their
network to support their large, central
data centres.
T Service providers and network operators
can prepare for this by setting up the
necessary infrastructures for the periphery
in good time – providing they start doing so
he growth in private and business
data traffic continues unabated.
And the Internet of Things, 5G
and mobility now need to be taken into
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now. This will entail a wide-scale increase
in fibre optic cabling, something that
is presently happening with the many
FTTH undertakings in the region, and the
installation of decentralised micro-data
centres. These micro-data centres are
autonomous, automatable and sturdy
solutions which have to be powerful enough
to assume a leading role in the cloud.
A striking application example for edge
computing is the future of road traffic. A
study by the German Fraunhofer research
institute, has shown that for cars to be fully
automated and safe, they would have to
be able to react within 0.1 milliseconds.
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