- In December 2024, ABB has acquired Solutions Industry & Building (SIB), a French manufacturer of building products and premium cable glands. This expands ABB’s presence in Europe, the Middle East, and North America while strengthening its cable protection solutions. The acquisition enhances ABB’s data center structured cabling offerings, ensuring greater safety and efficiency in critical infrastructure
- In January 2025, Corning Incorporated released a guide in collaboration with NVIDIA to help data center operators optimize AI data centers using structured cabling strategies. The guide focused on managing the complex cabling needs of AI networks, which require over 10 times more fiber than traditional data centers. Corning highlighted the benefits of structured cabling, such as faster installation, reduced human error, and better scalability for future upgrades like 800G networks. This initiative positioned Corning as a key player in supporting AI infrastructure growth, offering high-density, future-proofed solutions like the EDGE8 products
- In November 2024, Schneider Electric has expanded its Barcelona prefabricated data center factory from 7,000m² to 12,000m² to meet rising demand for AI-driven and modular data center solutions. This growth enhances its production and integration capabilities, strengthening its position in the structured cabling market by enabling faster deployments, improved scalability, and greater reliability for high-performance infrastructure
- In November 2024, Broadcom and Telia expanded their partnership through a multi-year agreement to modernize Telia’s telco and cloud infrastructure using VMware solutions. Telia adopted VMware Telco Cloud Platform and VMware Cloud Foundation to enhance automation, streamline resource management, and improve operational efficiency. As a Broadcom Pinnacle Partner, Telia strengthened its ability to deliver secure and scalable 5G and cloud services in the Nordics and Baltics. This collaboration reinforced Broadcom’s position in the telecommunications and cloud markets, driving innovation and customer growth
- In January 2024, Rosenberger OSI, a leading manufacturer of fibre optic cabling infrastructures in Europe, introduced 8° APC angled polish multimode connectors to its successful PreCONNECT® OCTO and DUODECIM MTP® systems. This new feature significantly enhances the return loss performance, ensuring it remains stable and high during operation. According to Harald Jungbäck, the product manager for data centre cabling systems at Rosenberger OSI, the addition of the 8° APC connectors offers a more reliable and efficient solution, improving the overall performance and stability of fibre optic connectivity in data centres
Frequently Asked Questions
Increasing adoption of high-speed and high-density cabling solutions, is emerging as a pivotal trend driving the data center structured cabling market.
The major factors driving the growth of the data center structured cabling market are Increasing adoption of fiber optic cabling for enhanced bandwidth and performance and rising data traffic and demand for high-speed connectivity.
The primary challenges include challenges in integrating new cabling technologies with Legacy systems.
