One of the major problems that we face nowadays is not having enough power sockets for the numerous gadgets we keep buying, the ones that apparently, we absolutely must-have. Now that smart home technology has come into the spotlight, it has not only changed our power socket needs but also our overall wiring needs.

Someday, when Wi-Fi is better and everything works on long-lasting batteries, we will not have to worry about wiring.

Until then however, you can read this article about why you should update the wiring of your house and how to set up a functional smart home for better connectivity.

Ethernet cables evolve. With each iteration, the goal is to make it better in terms of reliability and speed.

It is not simply enough to use a Cat8 cable to connect to your computer, if the wires that live in your walls are ancient. You need to update those to match the ones you connect to your devices.

You can do this process yourself or hire an electrician to do it.

If you choose to do this yourself, then here’s how you can go about it:

• Start with removing the old Ethernet cables in the walls.
• Get wall plates that have space for […]
  
   

Networking is the backbone of any IT infrastructure. It’s one of the most interesting concepts of technology, at least for network engineers. For many people working with networking devices is interesting as millions of people rely on them. Some of them even find working inside a data center with servers and networking components interesting.
Just think about the Google data centers where thousands of queries come every day and how strong their servers have to be to process those queries and revert the results to the users in a matter of minutes.

There are so many components, from small to large, included in those data centers and each one is important and interdependent.
So, in this article, we’ve discussed two basic devices of networking which are necessary for a fiber-based solution but people forget them easily.

Let’s discuss why they are important and what’s their use:

Fiber Optic Adapter:

It’s a small device that connects the fiber optic patch cables to the switch. Their main function is to make sure that internet-enabled devices can communicate with each other. These adapters are the least evident yet vital devices that infrastructure managers tend to ignore it.

How do they work?

When working with optical fiber cables, you need to take […]