Datacenters

Market & trends

Data centers are evolving toward ultra-high-speed, software-defined infrastructures designed to support AI, cloud-native applications, and distributed workloads. This drives growing complexity across connectivity, power, and timing domains.

Typical challenges:

• High-speed fiber and Ethernet scaling
  The transition to 400G, 800G and beyond requires flawless physical layer performance. Dense fiber installations demand automated certification, low-loss splicing, inspection, and continuous monitoring to avoid costly downtime.

• Signal integrity and network performance
  As bandwidth increases, tolerances shrink. Operators must validate transceivers, links, and Ethernet fabrics while troubleshooting latency, packet loss, and application performance across hybrid environments.

• Power availability and power quality
  Rising rack densities place unprecedented stress on electrical infrastructure. Monitoring power quality, batteries, and UPS systems is critical to protect sensitive equipment and maintain availability.

• Operational visibility
  Encrypted traffic, virtualization, and multi-cloud architectures make root-cause analysis harder. Teams need deep observability across optical, network, and application layers to reduce MTTR.

• Timing and synchronization
  Financial services, distributed databases, and media workloads increasingly depend on accurate time. Data centers must move beyond basic NTP toward resilient PTP-based architectures with reliable holdover.