We can’t stress enough that disaster recovery is more often about maintaining business as usual in the wake of a mundane outage, hardware failure or human error, rather than the more remote probability of a hurricane or flood of biblical proportions.
In my first post, I talked about media conversion at the physical layer. Today I want to talk to you about how to use optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR)-equipped small form-factor pluggables (SFP) to detect fiber breaks.
Multi-tenant data center (MTDC) operators must assess and balance numerous factors when investing in information technology (IT) equipment — including affordability, efficiency, sustainability, reliability, and agility.