The panel discussion featured Carrie Goetz, RCDD, CDCS, CDCP, global director of technology for Paige DataCom Solutions; Enoch Moeller hardware operations site manager for Google; and Kylash Ramesh, management analyst, Division of Facilities Operations & Maintenance for the National Institutes of Health.

The United States government employs more than 2 million non-military personnel. That’s roughly the population of New Mexico. If you’re saying, “Wow, that’s a lot of folks,” you’d be right.

This business and technical white paper is an exploration of the data center fiber optic networking infrastructure requirements needed to meet current and future demands for data volumes and data rates. It covers how 200Gigabit (Gbps) and 400Gbps Ethernet (GE) fiber optic technologies evolved and how they should advance to 800GE and 1.6TE.

Over the last two years, we have been inundated by requests from wholesale and colocation clients to help develop winning proposals supporting hyperscale tenants. While each proposal we develop is customized to the hyperscale tenant, there are similarities and differences among each request.

The critical facilities industry relies on industry standards to establish the minimum requirements necessary to design, build, and operate critical sites. Some of these standards get adopted by federal, state, and local governments through legislation as enforceable codes.

The next decade will continue to see growth in the number of IP-connected mobile and machine-to-machine devices, which will handle significant amounts of IP traffic. Tomorrow’s consumers will demand better online experiences and faster, smoother Wi-Fi service and application delivery from online providers.

The mission critical industry has been growing rapidly the last few years and is expected to continue strong for the foreseeable future. To what do you attribute that growth and how long might it continue?

Across a wide range of industries and applications, the world’s data needs continue to expand at an unprecedented rate. From finance to oil and gas to health care to agriculture, data has become a vital component of day-to-day operations across all industries; as data needs increase, so too does the pressure on mission critical systems to support data storage and processing.

The data center sector has changed dramatically over the last decade, with hyperscale and platform providers driving the most recent building boom.

You may have noticed that liquid cooling has had a lot more activity and press coverage this past year.