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.

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?