10 Gigabit Ethernet is a kind of telecommunication technology which is capable of supporting a rate up to 10Gbps, so it also goes by 10GbE. Adopting 10GbE can greatly enhance the bandwidth, so many companies are upgrading their data center to satisfy the increasing demands. Then how to deploy a 10G data center? This post will recommend some efficient components as a solution.

10G SFP+ Fiber Optic Transceiver

10G SFP+ fiber optic transceivers are equipped with pluggable function when work with switch, and also support 10G data center. Furthermore, because of its small size, it is able to guarantee low power and high density of ports. In addition to these benefits, this optical transceiver provides a very high data transmission rate up to 10Gbit/s which is 10 times as fast as Gigabit Ethernet. Besides, it will not affect the operation of whole network when plugging in or out transceiver as it supports hot-pluggable.

Currently, there are various kinds of SFP+ transceivers supplied on the market. For a long distance transmission, there are SFP-10GBASE-LR, SFP-10GBASE-ER, SFP-10GBASE-ZR, CWDM SFP+ and DWDM SFP+. For a short distance transmission, there are SFP-10GBASE-SR, SFP-10GBASE-LRM and so on. 

LC Fiber Optic Patch Cable

As a part of data transmission medium, fiber optic patch cables have been featuring large transmission capacity, strong resistance to electromagnetism, high security and fast speed, which gives it an extensive popularity. LC fiber optic patch cable is one of the most common fiber patch cables in 10G data center, which was categorized into singlemode and multimode, respectively used for long distance transmission and short distance transmission. Apart from these two types, an another patch cable called high-density push-pull fiber patch cord was designed and has been put into use for high-density cabling environment. Depending on the special design, the newly-formed fiber patch cord can easily plug in and out in the high-density cabling, which makes it extremely suitable for deploying data center in a quite limited space. With the similar purpose, there is another special fiber patch cable named uniboot fiber patch cable came into being. This patch cable is known for the great benefit it brings for fiber management.

10G SFP + Direct Attach Cable（DAC）

10G SFP + DAC is a cost-effective solution to short-distance transmission application of 10G data center. It offers low cost and reliable speed of 10G, and no need for using optical transceivers, which make it support a transmission distance up to100m.

Fiber Distribution Box

Fiber distribution box is essential for data center. It offers flexible module system, used to manage the connection between optical transceivers, fiber patch cables of high-density data center for maximizing the use of space. Likewise, fiber distribution box can be classified into different types, such as indoor or outdoor, rack type or wall mounted type. For 10G data center, rack type may be a proper choice for most cases, but still need further consideration in terms of actual application.

Fiber enclosure is an equipment you must have in data centers. This component is used to provide a flexible and modular system for managing fiber terminations, connections, and patching in high density data center application to maximize rack space utilization and minimize floor space. Fiber enclosure can be divided into different configurations like rack mount (available in 1U, 2U, 3U, 4U), wall mount, indoor or outdoor. The rack mount enclosure come into three flavors. One is the slide-out type and the other two are removable type and swing out type. Fiberstore introduces high density fiber enclosures with 48 ports, 96 ports and even 288 ports loaded LC FAPs (fiber adapter panels) in 1RU or 4RU rack mount for 10G solutions. Or if you already have the unloaded fiber enclosures, you just need to buy fiber adapter panels.

Conclusion

High-density and high-bandwidth are the developing trends of Data Center, in order to accomplish the existing demands and also the future higher demands, there are some fiber optic devices that used to manage the high-density cabling system and components that upgrade the bandwidth and capacity supplied in Cozlink, which are the efficient solution for data center or other high-density systems.

Why Need to Build a 10G Home Fiber Network?

Starts from Network Assessment

Before the decision on deploying your 10G fiber network, it's necessary to have an overall network assessment for your home environment so as to ensure the network deployed can handle all your traffic needs. You should probably ask yourself a few questions, such as how many computers, printers, and other peripherals will connect to your network? How much wireless coverage will you need at your location? What type of mobile devices will access to your network? Do you have to supervise all network devices? Are there any special functions that you want for your network devices? Where would you like to have 10G connections and where would you leave it at 1Gbps?

Know What Makes a 10G Home Fiber Network

To have a better assessment, you also need to have a rough idea about the basics of a 10G home network. For a 10G home network, several components are indispensable: 10Gb home switch, home router, and wireless access point for home (AP).According to different needs, some optional devices can be also included in your home networks such as network-attached storage (NAS) devices (like a network server), 10G network cards, PoE switches, and end devices like PC and security camera.

What Is A Data Center?

Data centers are facilities that store and distribute the data on the Internet. With an estimated 100 billion plus web pages on over 100 million websites, data centers contain a lot of data. With almost two billion users accessing all these websites, including a growing amount of high bandwidth video, it’s easy to understand but hard to comprehend how much data is being uploaded and downloaded every second on the Internet.

A data center, as defined in TIA-942, Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers, is a building or portion of a building whose primary function is to house a computer room and its support areas. That definition seems quaint in the era of giant warehouse-sized data centers with hundreds of thousands of servers, switches and storage and up to a million interconnections.

The main functions of a data center are to centralize and consolidate information technology (IT) resources, house network operations, facilitate e-business and to provide uninterrupted service to mission-critical data processing operations. Yes, it is what we used to call the computer room before it grew to fill giant buildings! Data centers can be part of an enterprise network, a commercial venture that offers to host services for others or a co-location facility where users can place their own equipment and connect to the service providers over the building’s connections.

Data centers can be big like  a Google, Facebook, Amazon or Apple data center. Probably nobody has data centers bigger than Google. (OK, maybe NSA.) Google has has some very artistic photos taken of their data centers and put them online so all can see them. You can learn more about Google’s data centers here: http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/

Or small like what we used to call the computer room - this one at the new San Diego public library. It's just big enough to store some basic library data and be the nerve center for their passive optical LAN (POL.)