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Accenture forecasts digital developments to watch next year

According to Accenture, digital technologies and hyper-connectivity are bringing user-led innovation to market faster than ever and the successful organizations today are those that best adapt and respond to unceasing change. Against this backdrop, the consulting firm today released Fjord Trends 2017, its 10th annual report examining the most significant emergent digital trends expected to disrupt organizations and society in the year ahead. » Read More

Avanade’s Gilchrist releases his technology predictions for 2017

Digital innovation across applications and platforms is pushing organizations to relearn how they interact with their workforce, customers and partners, says Jeff Gilchrist, general manager of Avanade Canada. » Read More

New AWS Canada (Central) Region now open for business

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced the launch of the AWS Canada (Central) Region.  AWS now provides 40 Availability Zones across 15 technology infrastructure regions globally, with another seven Availability Zones and three regions in the U.K., France, and China expected to come online in the coming months. » Read More
 
 
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Transition Networks Inc.

Extender simplifies analog to IP surveillance system upgrades

Transition Networks Inc. has announced the availability of its Ethernet Over Coax Extender with PoE+, which the company said reduces cost and accelerates time to service by utilizing existing coax cabling infrastructure to upgrade from analog to IP-based surveillance cameras or connect other IP devices to the Ethernet network.
The new extender conforms to the IEEE 802.3 af/at standard for compliance with other PoE / PoE+ powered devices, allowing edge devices to be quickly and easily located in places where power was previously not available and helping to avoid unnecessary and costly electrical installations, the company said.
The Ethernet Over Coax Extenders are used in pairs, with a local (EOCPSE4020-110) and remote (EOCPD4020-110) device placed at opposite ends of a 75-ohm coax cable and is capable of delivering a full 25 Watts of power to the edge device at near Gigabit speed. » Read More
Optical Cable Corp.

OCC RJ-45 plug designed for Cat 8 cable adoption

Category 8 Ethernet cable will play a major role in meeting today’s burgeoning needs for high-speed communications, whether in the data centre, voice, video or other high bandwidth applications that run on copper cable for distances up to 30 meters, according to Optical Cable Corp. (OCC)
To ensure that Category 8 adopters will effectively reach data speeds of up to 40 Gb/s – four times the speeds of many of today’s users, the company recently announced that it had launched a new RJ-45 plug with integral circuit board technology that provides advanced control of crosstalk, return loss, and other impediments, ensuring consistent performance at higher frequencies up to 2000 MHz.
Prior to the introduction of the product cable engineers viewed the challenge of transmitting data at rates of up to four times faster over a standard RJ-45 connector as a major concern.
The new RJ-45 plug model is fully backward compatible with existing RJ-45 infrastructure used by a majority of Ethernet connection ports, including Cat 6A, Cat 6 and Cat 5e cabling. It is field installable, and should be familiar to many cable installers. OCC said. » Read More
 
Events 
 

CES 2017

Jan. 5-8
Location: Las Vegas » Read More

BICSI Winter Conference 2017

Jan. 22-26
Location: Tampa, Fla. » Read More

Mobile World Congress 2017

Feb. 27-March 2
Location: Barcelona, Spain » Read More