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At Transition Networks we’ve always tried to help our customers integrate fiber optics into their copper-rich cabling environments via media conversion.  Media converters have been a vital tool to traditional enterprise networks for many years.  These converters have allowed organizations to experience the benefits of fiber cabling.. (more…)

Industrial Ethernet is a plant process and control specific technology, which is focused on the production techniques that are used to help make a company profitable through their manufacturing process.  Over the last couple of years, Ethernet seems to have gained momentum over other limiting proprietary protocols.  Industrial Ethernet environments often involve many types of unknown, hazardous environments and factors that can strongly influence the overall operation of standard Ethernet devices. In fact, Industrial Ethernet supports many crucial factors that are used when a loss of control does occur.  The result could potentially cause serious disasters or even in some extreme cases, the loss of life, property or serious financial damage.  In hazardous environments like oil, gas and chemical production, this can be especially true. A single issue can cost upwards of $1 million dollars a day at some companies, so it’s easy to understand why Industrial Ethernet has a more demanding focus on the potential for component failures, reliability and other problems that will need to be resolved quickly before serious loss occurs.
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Have you ever been on a conference call or webinar and found you had trouble keeping up with all the terminology and acronyms?   Maybe you received a RFP (request for proposal) and were looking for the decoder ring to make sense of everything in the RFP.

Most of us will act like we know the meaning of a term, even if we are thinking “that isn’t what I thought it meant”, we find that often times there are different meanings or interpretations for the same networking term or acronym.

While there are many websites out there, I have listed a couple that have a good listing of networking and telecommunications terms and acronyms.

http://www22.verizon.com/wholesale/glossary/
http://www.qwest.com/wholesale/guides/glossary.html (more…)

Some people may say that discussions focused on “going green” within data-centers, and businesses in general, are already getting out of hand.  In 2008, it seemed like everyone was talking about green products, yet everyone also seemed to have their own definition of what makes a product green.

As this debate continues, there is no doubt that energy efficiency is an issue everyone should be looking at.  We are all faced with soaring energy prices and increasing energy consumption, which is often due to increases in processing power and cooling requirements. (more…)