From miniaturization to new cable standards to bold new materials, cables are evolving in tandem with connectors to enable fast, powerful, efficient design.
Innovation in digital technologies is supported by parallel advancements in cable trends. From faster, smaller cables in the consumer space to heavy subsea cables that carry massive volumes of data from one continent to another, wired networks support wireless activities and underpin our critical infrastructure.
Societies have locked into increasing levels of demand for higher bandwidth and greater speeds as more functions, from banking and manufacturing to education and entertainment, require instantaneous, secure, and efficient connectivity. All of that depends on a powerful new generation of wire and cable. Coordinating these conduits with connectors that can optimize performance is essential to all cabling strategies, on a package level or across a network.
Continuous improvements to cable design, along with an accelerating transition from copper to optical cable, is bringing about the next level of high-speed connectivity. In industrial settings, single-pair Ethernet is poised to dramatically increase productivity and visibility with a new approach that transmits high-speed data across longer distances using only two twisted wires. Optical cable is increasing efficiency in data centers, enabling the 5G buildout, and bringing new possibility to high-performance computing, including new frontiers in quantum computing.
