New Technology Trends
Emerging technologies have the potential to disrupt and transform the ICT industry.
A Commitment to Education
Rapid technological changes have always been inherent in the ICT industry, and in today’s digital era, technology is advancing faster than ever. CCCA works to educate the ICT community about new technologies impacting the market and their effects on cabling infrastructure standards, regulations, and best practices.
CCCA and the industry experts that serve as our members collaborate to examine new technology trends, identify their broad industry implications, and recommend educational outreach strategies to empower the ICT community with information.
Topic Resources
CCCA Provides the industry with a wide variety of resources to educate and inform. From videos to articles to white papers, we encourage everyone interacting with cable and connectivity to refer to these resources when making buying or installation decisions.
Articles and Resources
Fault Managed Power – A Safe and Disruptive Innovation for Powering the Future
This new way of safely delivering hundreds or even thousands of watts of power over longer distances promises to disrupt the market—in a good way.
Going the Distance: What You Need to Know About Breaking the 100-meter Distance Limitation
Local area networks (LANs) have historically been designed in a way that ensures all end devices are within 100 meters (m) of a telecommunications room (TRs) to comply with industry cabling standards. Now with the adoption of smart building [...]
Overcoming the Challenges of Next Generation Speeds in Data Centers
This article discusses various technology advancements that have paved the way to next-generation fiber implementations in the data center, standards-based approaches to 400 Gig, and the impact on fiber connectivity. It also discusses ongoing developments in optical transceiver technology and [...]
Structured cabling in the data center can help enterprise business thrive coming out of the pandemic
This article takes a look at how recent data center trends and the impact of COVID-19 are fueling the need for high-speed, low-latency connections and fast, flexible and cost-effective data center expansion. It examines why and how enterprise business is [...]
Structured Cabling Makes a Comeback With High-Speed, Low-Latency Deployments
Our paper in Mission Critical magazine takes a look at the current trends in data center architecture to support high-speed, low-latency performance, as well as advancements in technology and ensuing standards developments that are driving 25, 50 and 100 Gb/s [...]
Navigating the Pros and Cons of Structured Cabling vs. Top of Rack in the Data Center (2013)
There is no single end-all cabling configuration for every data center, and CIOs, data center professionals and IT managers need to examine the pros and cons of each solution based on their specific needs. This paper focuses on the many factors [...]