Now that we understand the need for high-fiber-count cables, we can turn our attention to the alternatives on the market for data center interconnect. The industry has agreed that ribbon cablesare the only feasible solution for this applicati. Now that we understand the need for high-fiber-count cables, we can turn our attention to the alternatives on the market for data center interconnect. The industry has agreed that ribbon cablesare the only feasible solution for this application space. Traditional loose tube cables and single-fiber splicing would take much too long to install and re. Without diving too far into the details about why these data centers are growing so large, we can simplify the explanation to two trends. The first is the exponential east-west traffic growth machine-to-machine communication has created. The second trend is related to the adoption of flatter network architectures, such as spine-and-leafor Clos netw. Once the industry determined that ribbon cableswere the best option, it was quick to realize that traditional ribbon cable designs were not able to achieve the required fiber density in existing conduit. The industry therefore set out to essentially double the fiber density in traditional ribbon cables. Two design approaches emerged. The first appr.
