“Those planning and building networks today are now setting the course for several decades.” Reichle & De-Massari (R&M) portrays this as a decisive moment in its market outlook for 2019. R&M, the globally active Swiss developer and provider of cabling systems for high-quality network infrastructures, based in Wetzikon, therefore recommends being more precise than ever with forward planning for networks, whether for public broadband networks, private data networks or data centers. “Infrastructures for fiber to the home, mobile communications, the Cloud, smart business, smart factories, smart buildings, smart cities and a wide range of digital applications require a capacity for data traffic that will continue to develop dynamically for decades to come,” says R&M CMO Andreas Rüsseler.
There are several reasons for this:
- The digital revolution is changing requirements. From this, Andreas Rüsseler concludes: “Those planning networks today need to design them for a need that we’ve never seen before. It is essential, in every project and at every network level, to plan and build infrastructures for huge volumes of data and data transmission that is secure and instantaneous at all times.”
- R&M anticipates that extensive investments in blanket development will only pay off in the long term. Planners and network operators should, therefore, opt for long-lasting, high-quality products.
- Valuable fiber optic cables, which are being more and more frequently nowadays, should not need to be replaced after a few years just because they were inadequately measured, to begin with.
New dimensions in all markets
“The long-term scale of the digital revolution cannot yet be seen in detail. At the moment, however, many new technological concepts are coming into focus, bringing with them new opportunities and possibilities for the future,” says Andreas Rüsseler.
- Take the Internet of Things (IoT), for example: Ultra-small sensors, switches, measuring devices, control systems, light sources, safety systems, blinds, heaters, air-conditioning systems, cameras or even medical devices are connected to the Internet.The IoT enables them to be managed efficiently. Data can be merged more easily and used for multiple functions.
- Another example is Blockchain, the tamper-proof data transaction system.It can protect money transfers, goods, merchandise, industrial and digital products, and much more. The technology is based on a cryptographic, continuous and remotely organized daisy-chaining of data sets. It uses many data centers which work in parallel and permanently synchronize the blockchains via fast networks.
