The blog highlights EPS Global’s successful two-year partnership with the Business in the Community Ireland (BITC) Student Mentoring Programme. Read article

Walk into any factory, server room, or building-automation cabinet and you’ll find the same story: a tangle of incompatible communication buses. Fieldbus for the PLCs. RS-485 for the sensors. SPI, I²C, and UART on the backplane. CAN or LIN in the vehicle harness. Each one comes with its own wiring, connectors, protocol stack, and specialist knowledge. Read article

Recent instability in US software stocks highlights a growing crisis: high hardware costs and shrinking margins are squeezing the tech industry. This blog argues that while IT leaders cannot control stock prices or GPU costs, they can control their infrastructure. Featuring insights from The Critical Lowdown podcast with leaders from Celestica and Hedgehog, the post outlines why Open Networking is now a financial imperative. Read article

In the fast-paced world of technology, we are often fixated on the horizon—the next 1.6-Tb optics, the explosion of AI, or the latest IoT innovation. But right now, we're facing a different kind of reality. We're in what we call "The Red Zone."

The Red Zone is the convergence of U.S. holidays (Thanksgiving through New Year's) and the massive industrial shutdown of the Lunar New Year. When you combine these planned pauses with end-of-year budget flurries, the result is a "perfect storm" for delays. And we're in it right now.

Here at The Switch Lab, our focus is typically on the switches, routers, and transceivers that handle data traffic in enterprise and data center networks. However, the underlying physical layer of optical transport is where much of the foundational innovation occurs. For this edition of our series, we're examining a piece of equipment designed for that specific domain.

Facing the challenge of scaling their network, Brazilian ISP BrasilNET partnered with EPS Global to test a groundbreaking solution: an amplifier-free 60km link. This was achieved using Finisar/Coherent's pluggable coherent transceivers, demonstrating a powerful way to boost capacity while drastically reducing infrastructure costs. Read article