Smart cities could contribute to improved security

"To increase security and decrease cost, technology must be improved and modified," said Rutkowski. "The most important driver for safe cities is better resource utilization through the deployment/integration of technology."

Using networks to create safe cities
Connected and integrated devices are critical to safe city architectures. Because of this, high-performance and cost-efficient network components are also critical. Resilient and reliable fiber and copper cabling architectures can go a long way toward enabling this vision for intelligent and safe city management programs. Making this happen, however, depends heavily on being able to create interoperability between fiber and Ethernet systems, especially in relatively large urban areas where distance makes copper impractical even if it does meet performance demands. In such settings,media converters can go a long way toward enabling compatibility across the network while supporting advanced performance functionality.

Perle has an extensive range of Managed and Unmanaged Fiber Media Converters to extended copper-based Ethernet equipment over a fiber optic link, multimode to multimode and multimode to single mode fiber up to 160km.