Enterprise Networks Solutions | Enterprise Fiber Network Architecture | Corning

Your local area network (LAN) is the heart of your business-it connects all the devices you need to run your business. Whether you use Ethernet or Wi-Fi, you need a foundation that meets your needs today and keeps your network growing in the future.

The Internet is bringing the world closer together, making reliable connectivity a fundamental service. In the real estate industry, it has long since become the "fourth estate," as important as electricity, water, and heat.

As smart and connected building technologies continue to emerge, there’s no doubt that fiber is the future. However, there is still a place for copper. The best approach for most building owners and tenants is a network infrastructure based on a strong, reliable fiber backbone that’s designed to push the fiber-to-copper transition point deeper into the network.

With the development of the standard to support 25GBASE-T and 40GBASE-T applications, next generation structured copper cabling solutions using shielded twisted-pair cable, patch cords and jacks are able to support a bandwidth of up to 2 GHz (2000 MHz) for small to medium size in-building enterprise solutions.

This sustainable buildings white paper analyzes and discloses the estimated operational and embodied carbon impacts of integrating a FTTE network at the COC headquarters building.

5G networks promise to connect people and things through intelligent networks and applications, all generating an immense amount of data. It seeks to provide the best of all performance factors while simultaneoulsy connecting more devices.

While the pace of change for technology is rapid, transformation within commercial real estate is slow. Emerging technologies, such as 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT), are poised to disrupt conventional approaches to commercial infrastructure and create winners and losers.

Fiber is the state of the art, but copper is still an economical choice for many businesses with low to moderate bandwidth requirements. Cat 6A is ideal for 10G transmissions up to 100 meters, while Cat 6 is sufficient for most businesses. Learn more about the benefits of the newly introduced Category 8 (Cat 8) cable.