20Apr 2017 by Petra Schruth

PON – Passive Optical Networking

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Passive Optical Networking (PON) is the best kept secret of optical networking. Often used by telecommunications companies to provide the Last Mile, its application still seems to be lagging in other areas. 2024Sight has been working with PON since the very early days. With the right head-end and premise equipment PON allows for very efficient, long distance, LAN-style networking with minimal cable cost. To learn more about what PON can do for you, please read our PON-related papers and posts. Here you can find a presentation introducing GPON.
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20Feb 2016 by Anton Hofland

The Block Chain Dream

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Technology alone can never be the answer. It requires governance and processes to balance the forces of goodwill, power and greed. View and download the full publication here . It was published at VanillaPlus and IOTNow.
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19Oct 2015 by Anton Hofland

Convenience – the bane of security and privacy

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Almost everyone is exposed to technology in one way or another, as user, service provider, manufacturer or developer. When faced with a choice between right and convenient, many will chose the latter. The choice for convenience however comes with a price. In this article we give a few examples to illustrate the point. View and download the full publication here . The article has been published on IOTNow.
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11Sep 2015 by Anton Hofland

What drives the trend to increasingly smarter buildings?

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The building and construction industry is an industry with long planning horizons, long execution cycles and a business model which rewards, with reason, a very low risk appetite. Timely delivery of a multi-year project to specification and on budget is what counts. Everything else is subservient. View and download the full article here. The article was published on IoTNow (M2MNow).
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02Jun 2012 by Anton Hofland

Converged IT/OT Networking

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PON paves the way to create converged Information Technology (IT) Networking and Operational Technology (OT) Networking onto a single, highly efficient networking. Never heard of Operational Technology? It is the technology that manages and secures all buildings and facilities. Read more about IT/OT network convergence in our publications: PON Technology Paves the Way for Cloud Networking (Realcomm Edge)Combining Real Time and Enterprise Networking on a Single Infrastructure (White Paper)
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