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Alastair Waite

Alastair Waite joined CommScope in September 2003 as a Product Manager for the company’s Enterprise Fibre Optic division, since that time he has held a number of key roles in the business including Head of Enterprise Product Management, for EMEA, Head of Market Management and the Data Center business leader in EMEA. 

Since January 2016, Alastair has had responsibility for architecting CommScope’s data centre solutions for Europe, ensuring that customer’s infrastructures are positioned to grow as their operational needs expand in this dynamic segment of the market. 

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February 19, 2026

Shuffling into the Future

Fiber-optic shuffle architecture is gaining currency as the go-to method to increase bandwidth and improve load balancing in AI factories. But what shuffle architecture, how does it work, and how can data centers implement it?

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February 18, 2025

Bringing more order to AI data center infrastructure orders

In the AI industry, every day can bring a new technology announcement, a new product launch and new predictions from the industry press. Some of these developments align to one another, whilst others can seem to contradict, making it difficult for C-suite executives and data center operations directors to plan without second guessing themselves about whether they’ve made the right choice.

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December 10, 2024

Moving AI Data Centers Closer to Power: Is Your Cabling Partner Ready?

The artificial intelligence (AI) tsunami keeps surging onwards and upwards. This evolution breeds much discussion about its enabling technologies, e.g., what’s coming next; “squeezing” that extra ounce of performance out of the network; how to architect the whole building; and many others. I’m happy to report that CommScope is leading those conversations and innovating the solutions to support future network migration, and we’ll have more to share on those solutions in the future.

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July 30, 2024

Celebrities, AI And Structured Cabling. Are They Such Unusual Bedfellows?

This blog will explore the essential, and sometimes forgotten, role that structured cabling plays in the deployment and operation of AI data centers.

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May 19, 2022

Rollable Ribbon Fiber Helps MTDCs Boost Fiber Capacity and Revenues

MTDCs are uniquely positioned to take advantage of the shift to edge-based distributed networking. Doing so will require supporting more fiber capacity in their data center interconnects (DCIs). Rollable ribbon fiber provides an innovative answer. The unique design enables up to six 3,456 fiber cables to be loaded into one four-inch duct, more than twice the density of conventionally packed fibers.

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December 08, 2020

MTDCs at the network edge

Multitenant data centers are now living on the edge to capitalize on their network location. To understand how and why, we first need to define the “edge.” In this blog, Alastair Waite provides you with this definition.

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