Wireless demands creating middle-mile demands

These issues aren't exclusive to organizations like Frontier Communications, and companies building middle-mile networks are working to adapt their strategies based on developments across the mobile sector.Brian Lippold, advisor to the Massachusetts Broadband Institute, told the news source that organizations serving radio signal towers with middle-mile networks can benefit substantially from efforts to diversify their service portfolio.

The report explained that the Massachusetts Broadband Institute has been instrumental in deploying a large middle-mile network in Western Massachusetts. Lippold told FierceTelecom that even though middle-mile infrastructure may not built in the direct path of radio signal towers or future desired locations for those towers, efforts can be made to extend the network and use that installation as a launching point for other services in a region.

The cabling challenges of wireless
Between increased smartphone and tablet use as well as the Internet of Things movements, there have been many discussions about wireless networks as the future of data communications. This move may make it sound like dealing with cables is not the future of the network, but the reality is that increased wireless network deployment means organizations need complex backhaul capabilities that can handle a significant amount of traffic.

Beyond backhaul, connecting wireless access points with the backhaul infrastructure depends heavily on advanced Ethernet systems. The end result is a network environment in which fiber to Ethernet media converters play a critical role in supporting seamless integration.

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.