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How PoE is Revolutionizing LED Lights in Smart Homes and Offices

Energy-efficiency has driven the evolution of the light bulb, but the next iteration of the light bulb will launch it into the Era of the Internet of… Read More

Home Sweet Smart Home—7 Must Have Smart Home Devices

Looking to transform your home into a Smart Home? Before you purchase your smart home devices, ensure that you select a standard that is interoperable with several… Read More

How Many Ways Can You Segment the Smart Home Market?

Transparency Market research forecasts that the Global Home Automation market will reach 16.4 billion by 2019.  Current home automation gadgets promise to give users the ability to… Read More

How much Data Will The Internet of Things (IoT) Generate by 2020?

The Internet of Things (IoT) has exploded over these past three years, and according to Gartner research, 25 billion connected “things” will be connected to the Internet… Read More

Versa Technology Upgrades to Fiber Broadband

Versa Technology upgraded their broadband to fiber technology. Take a sneak peek into our new Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) deployment! Relics of the Past Loading coils… Read More

Why Frontier Seeks to Corral Verizon’s Wireline Liabilities

Frontier communication recently completed a $9.9 billion transaction to acquire wireline properties in California, Texas, and Florida from Verizon Communications. The small Connecticut-based telco company has slowly… Read More

Bypass Ethernet Limitation with Our Coax and UTP Lines

Bypass the standard 100 Ethernet limitation with our new line of Long Reach PoE Extenders. These Ethernet extenders provide the flexibility of extending Ethernet links via existing… Read More

Zigbee vs Z-Wave—A Brewing Home Automation Battle?

Research Director at Gartner predicts that the Internet of Things (IoT) market will generate a $300 billion revenue and sell approximately 26 billion devices by 2020. According… Read More

Achieve 1km Links With the LRP-822CS Long Reach Coaxial Switch

Planetech USA will now be able to help network administrators surpass the standard 100 meter Ethernet limitation with our LRP-822CS Long Reach Coaxial Switch, a unit which… Read More

Use Standard UTP To Extend The Range of Your Networks With The LRP-101U-KIT

Planetech USA is pleased to announce that we will be able to help network administrators surpass the standard 100 meter Ethernet limitation with our LRP-101U-KIT, a Long… Read More

Z-Wave Plus To Revamp Home Automation Industry

Z-Wave Plus, also known as the 500 Series or 5th Generation of Z-Wave protocols, is a revamped protocol that will enhance end-user experience and simplify the installation… Read More

Achieve 1km Links With Our LRP-101C-KIT PoE over Coaxial Extenders

Planetech USA is pleased to announce that we will be offering coaxial extenders to help network administrators surpass the standard 100 meter Ethernet limitation. With the LRP-101C-KIT… Read More

IEEE’s 802.3BZ Task Force Mediates MGBASE-T and NBASE-T Alliances

The Ethernet Alliance has recently announced that it will finally be pursuing the official standardization of 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T Ethernet. The study group, officially known as the… Read More

Realistic Expectations About Smart Cities

The city of the future invokes images of flying cars and skyscrapers powered by renewable energy. Though self-driving cars may be a more obtainable vision, “smart cities”… Read More

How to Take Your Conference Calls to the Next Level

Salvage Legacy Equipment with the VIP-157—Telephone Analog Adapter

How do you migrate to a VoIP system without retiring your fax machine? Analog Telephone Adapters (ATA) rescue the utility of legacy Plain Old Telephone Services (POTS),… Read More