Providing access, availability and scalability of data in the cloud requires a 100% reliable and reliable network infrastructure. These are expert recommendations. Furukawa Solutions.

Today’s world requires increasingly competitive organizations to understand this concept as an opportunity to provide fast and flexible access to services and applications to ensure that the system is always available and, crucially, to ensure the security and protection of data.

In this sense, the data center is the right environment to meet current and future needs; either traditional or EDGE, which provide access to public, private, or hybrid clouds.

Given that most services reside in or depend on the cloud for their work, it is important to keep them 100 percent connected in terms of infrastructure,” explains Javier Bedoya of Furukawa Solutions.

“The cloud is a collection of storage infrastructures globally connected by a network of optical cables, satellite technologies, and so on. These points scattered around the planet are Data Centers, and in this complex network the Cloud, data transport and services run.“, Add.

In addition, in order to minimize disruptions, it is very important that all these points are not only connected, but that they maintain uniform performance both within the data center and in the connections between them.

When considering the development of a data center, a preliminary design assessment, topology, and the correct choice of fibers and cables are recommended; as well as quantity, since these variables affect speed and latency.

It will also be important to consider some key points, such as choosing the solution that provides the best long-term benefit, prior study of product compatibility with other networking equipment, and taking into account that the chosen technology is covered by the standard. .

Some of the benefits of designing data centers with forward-looking connectivity technologies include:

• High availability: Factory tested links for full availability and in a variety of topologies to reduce disruptions and minimize the risk of downtime.

• Modularity: It is possible to expand optical networks by adding plug-and-play and high-density components, reducing installation time and the likelihood of communication failures.

• Performance: Systems that guarantee zero bit error transmission are needed to meet future migration trends.

• Physical layer management: This system ensures that network documentation is automatically updated and also facilitates the physical placement of connected devices on the network, providing more flexible and secure infrastructure management.

• Safety: The implementation of a physical layer management system allows you to manage the physical point of the network and display it on a software platform so that the IT manager can be sure that it is interconnected. Any unauthorized movement in the patch panels and/or optical distributors will trigger an alarm; thus, the IT team can instantly identify failures.

• High density: solutions that allow you to expand to meet future needs, quickly and without compromising the performance of communication channels, without the need for physical expansion.

• Operational efficiency: cabling infrastructure designed to make the most of the building project, refrigeration and power supply systems (open racks, appropriate cabling accessories, hot and cold aisles, etc.).