Growing Optical Fiber Deployments to Drive Demand for Fiber Optic Components Worldwide, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

San Jose, California (PRWEB) April 10, 2012

Follow us on LinkedIn As a transport medium for communication in the modern communication hungry world, fiber optics is a critical and omnipresent technology vital to intelligent human existence and comfort. The massive data explosion triggered by bandwidth heavy multimedia content, such as, video, voice, multimedia, has and will continue to throw the focus on data transfer rate capability of communication networks. The continuously growing number of users sharing a network, use of advanced applications, faster desktop PCs, and faster network servers, all of which contribute to traffic congestion, are creating a dire need for networks to support gigabit transmission speeds. This insatiable need for faster and faster transmission speeds is forecast to continue gathering momentum as businesses adopt bleeding edge networking technologies, such as, data warehousing, cloud computing, server virtualization, all of which have immense resource demands i.e. higher storage needs, and bandwidth-hogging applications.

As the new age of high speed data access continues to come through, its opportunities galore for fiber optic components. The growing magnitude of electronic communication can be put into perspective by the fact that Internet data traffic is increasing exponentially at a rate faster than the rate of complexity of ICs under the Moore’s Law. Against this backdrop, the ongoing transition to high speed fiber optic networks, like 40 and 100 Gbps networks, is likely to continue well into the future spawning opportunities for fiber optic components. For instance, upgradations to higher speed networks will generate demand for array type MPO connectors. While 10G and 40G implementations have been underway over the last couple of years and the technology has achieved reasonable levels of market penetration, 100G technology is still in the embryonic incubation phase. Major equipment vendors have successfully conducted field trials for 100GbE technology over the last few years. Initial deployments of 100G are expected to begin in the year 2012 when new equipments are scheduled to be launched. However, real deployments are expected to occur once 100G reaches its third generation level by 2014. With the ink barely dry on the newest 40GbE and 100GbE technology standard, potential evolution of 400GbE and 1TerabitE, the next rate of Ethernet speed, is already creating a flutter.

Investments in Fiber-to-the-Home/Building (FTTH/B) will continue to remain crucial to growth in the market. Liberalization of regulatory regimes in several countries and support from government for deployment of FTTH/B bodes well for the market. Globally, the number of fiber-connected homes is expected to increase at robust double-digit rates, driven by significant FTTH deployments by leading operators in North America, Asia Pacific and the EMEA. The use of broadband connections to enable teleworking, telecommuting from home, home security, and home automation services is driving home developers to deploy fiber networks. The emergence of FTTH as the only solution to fulfill the current and future data demands of a wired home network is poised to indirectly benefit the market for fiber optic components. FTTB architecture is mostly deployed in regions such as South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan that have high population concentrations in urban areas dominated by apartment building. Research also indicates that rather than population density, it is the income level that has a more appropriate statistical correlation to the type of optical access deployment.

Deployment of fiber optics in the avionics sector is also poised to bring in its fair share of opportunities in applications, such as, remote communications, sensing, avionic platforms and ground-based communications. In this regard, harsh environment fiber optic components capable of withstanding extreme conditions of temperature ranging between 40

Growing Optical Fiber Deployments to Drive Demand for Fiber Optic Components Worldwide, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

Cloud Security Alliance Identifies 17 Key Components for Effective Mobile Device Management of BYOD and Company-Owned Devices

SEATTLE, WA (PRWEB) September 20, 2012

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Mobile Working Group today released Mobile Device Management: Key Components, V1.0, a research report identifying 17 key elements that are critical for organizations to consider for the full lifecycle security management of mobile devices. The whitepaper is one of six parts to the upcoming, “Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Mobile Computing” report, one of a number of important research items to be presented and discussed at the upcoming annual CSA Congress being held November 7-8 in Orlando.

With the growth in the number of applications, content and data being accessed through a variety of devices, mobile device management (MDM) has to extend beyond device management alone. As IT departments are now fully responsible for company-owned devices, organization must look to adopt policies and practices to prevent any compromise in security. Most important, the report cites, is for organizations to include a system-centric functionality to secure and manage data and applications, as well as information-centric functionality such as the delivery of the enterprise application store or content library.

Mobile devices are becoming an integral part of corporate networks and as employees are increasingly using their personal device to access cloud-based applications and services, identity management is paramount in ensuring that this access remains secure, said Patrick Harding, CTO, Ping Identity. By having the right identity management processes, enterprises can provide employees with secure and convenient access to cloud apps via single sign-on from mobile devices – whether BYOD or not. The CSA has taken important steps in identifying the key elements organizations need to consider before adopting a BYOD policy and were happy to see identity management recognized as a key piece.

While every company will have a different tolerance for risk and will adopt mobile technology in different ways, there are several fundamental components of MDM that have to be considered and incorporated into policy and practice. With each component falling into one of three major categories: software and hardware, inventory and security, the report provides implementation best practices as well as potentials risks along with a Must Have or Optional rating to help organizations better prioritize their security efforts.

Key components to MDM identified include:

Cloud Security Alliance Identifies 17 Key Components for Effective Mobile Device Management of BYOD and Company-Owned Devices

Westinghouse Selects McAfee Siem and IPS as Core Security Components to Address Threats to Control Systems

Pittsburgh, Pa. (PRWEB) October 24, 2012

Westinghouse Electric Company and McAfee today announce that the two companies have entered into a worldwide agreement in which Westinghouse will provide McAfee Enterprise Security Manager and Network Intrusion Prevention Systems to currently operating nuclear power plants having digital control systems and new plants under construction around the world.

The agreement enables Westinghouse to offer its customers stronger attack detection and prevention capabilities through security information and event management, and intrusion prevention specifically designed to address architectural and threat concerns to nuclear power plant control systems.

This agreement will help us to deliver cyber security in accordance with some of our industry associations best practices and guidelines, said David Howell, senior vice president of Westinghouse Nuclear Automation. We are pleased to team with McAfee and expand our capabilities to help our customers maintain cyber security for digital control systems at both operating nuclear plants and those currently under construction.

Westinghouse selected McAfee after thoroughly evaluating, testing and certifying its systems. McAfee Enterprise Security Manager provides deep security visibility for stronger attack detection and incident response, including threats specific to nuclear plant control systems. McAfee Network Intrusion Prevention provides advanced threat prevention designed specifically for control systems architectures. Together, the two solutions protect control systems from direct threats and attacks launched through corporate network connections. The two systems are regulatory compliant nationally and in countries throughout the world.

“This partnership is a great step in the essential fight to keep critical infrastructure safe,” said Ken Levine, senior vice president and general manager of McAfee Risk and Compliance. “We applaud Westinghouse in leading the nuclear industry by integrating essential security components into their control system. Our selection as the security solution partner of Westinghouse is a testament to our solutions performance and manageability, as well as the extensive investment in research and development weve made in the security of control systems.”

Westinghouse Electric Company, a group company of Toshiba Corporation (TKY:6502), is the world’s pioneering nuclear energy company and is a leading supplier of nuclear plant products and technologies to utilities throughout the world. Westinghouse supplied the world’s first pressurized water reactor in 1957 in Shippingport, Pa., USA. Today, Westinghouse technology is the basis for approximately one-half of the world’s operating nuclear plants, including 60 percent of those in the United States.

McAfee, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation, is the world’s largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems, networks, and mobile devices around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the Web more securely. Backed by its unrivaled Global Threat Intelligence, McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security. McAfee is relentlessly focused on constantly finding new ways to keep its customers safe.

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