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The Future of Fiber-Optic Technologies in the Data Center Enterprise (30 Minutes in Duration)
Transmission speeds up to 800 Gbits/sec, deployed in some of today’s most-advanced data centers, place extreme demands on a network’s fiber-optic infrastructure systems and the professionals who design them. This presentation explores the applications driving these high data rates, then describes the fiber-cabling capabilities needed to support them. Incorporating factors like loss budget, parallel-optic architecture, breakouts, and move/add/change flexibility, this informative session provides a detailed look at the options available for meeting today’s highest throughput needs.

Installing, Terminating, and Managing High-Fiber-Count Cabling (30 Minutes in Duration)
Several manufacturers now produce cables with 6912 fibers contained within a single sheath, with an outside diameter only slightly larger than that of an 864-fiber cable. Cables containing such compact assemblies of optical fibers require new approaches to installation, termination, and fiber management. This session provides an overview of cables containing 1728 or more fibers, the applications they serve, and the considerations they require from installers, technicians, and cabling-plant managers.

Fiber Optic Cabling as the Enterprise’s Critical Enabling Technology (30 Minutes in Duration)
The enterprise network has evolved significantly from the days of multiple copper-cable connections at each user’s desk. Today, most workstations use wireless LAN connectivity, while cabling provides connections to wireless access points, surveillance cameras, sensors and other stationary devices. As the enterprise network has transformed, fiber-optic cabling has played a critical role in its evolution and continues to thrive as the enterprise’s robust enabling technology. This presentation takes viewers through the evolution of enterprise network needs, describing how fiber-optic cabling has consistently met and exceeded user requirements. The presentation also describes the continued evolution of enterprise networks, and explains why fiber is capable of supporting future applications and architectures.

Fiber Splicing – Advantages, Approaches, and Options (30 Minutes in Duration)
Advances in fusion splicing technologies have made the process more advantageous and more easily accomplished than ever. Accommodating the widespread use of fiber in data center, enterprise, and service provider networks, fusion splicing delivers near-lossless performance using equipment that has become increasingly user-friendly. This presentation emphasizes the benefits and advantages of fusion splicing, including the applications for which it is a preferable option. The session also provides insight into the latest advancements in splicer technology that ease splice technicians’ workmanship burden.

The New Age of Fiber Testing (30 Minutes in Duration)
With fiber being used for more applications than ever before, technicians in all kinds of environments are carrying out fiber-optic system verification, testing, and troubleshooting. This presentation enlightens its audience with some of the newest tools, techniques, and capabilities in the realm of fiber test.

The Future of Fiber-Optic Technologies in the Data Center and Enterprise (1 Hour in Duration)
Fiber-optic cabling systems are the enabling technologies that will serve as the foundation of communications systems in data center and enterprise networks for years to come. As network requirements evolve, so too do the physical characteristics as well as design and installation best practices for fiber-optic cabling systems. This roundtable discussion examines the current state and future direction of fiber cabling. Covering applications in data centers as well as enterprise environments, this conversation describes the technological evolution of optical fiber, fiber-optic cable, and fiber connectivity that allow the medium to meet current and future user demands.

• The moderator and panelists will collaborate prior to the live event to establish the discussion’s topics and themes. We present the following topics for panelists’ consideration, and invite panelists to offer their own topics of interest.
• High-fiber-count cable
• Small-form-factor and very-small-form-factor connectivity
• 200-micron/180-micron fiber
• Multicore fiber
• Termination methods (connectors vs. splicing)
• The future of multimode fiber
• Hybrid fiber/copper cable technology and applications
• Fiber testing challenges and techniques
• Future applications and their requirements
  

Product Specific Demonstrations (20 Minutes in Duration Each)
By popular demand from Cabling Installation & Maintenance’s audience, this day of learning will feature video demonstrations of specific products. Use video to show our audience of installers, technicians, designers, and end-user managers the intricacies of your fiber-based product. You’ll have 20 minutes to deliver a “how-to” tutorial on one or more products from your portfolio. Take advantage of this opportunity to highlight your products’ features, from its simplicity to its advanced capabilities. Limited opportunities available.