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Strategic Path - Infrastructure Secrets - IBRS

IT infrastructure analyst Dr Kevin McIsaac of Intelligent Business Research Services reveals the key points from Strategic Path’s executive peer-group roundtable Strategic Path’s roundtable discussions aim to foster better understanding ...

Strategic Path - Infrastructure Secrets - Roundtable

Strategic Path discusses best practices and IT infrastructure challenges with IBM’s Chris Fasseau and Michael Shallcross, and Dylan Morison of Cisco. This compelling panel discussion was moderated by Kevin McIsaac, following a longer end-user rou...

Longhaus - Power, water, bandwidth, space and the modern data centre

Why going green gets the green light By Sam Higgins, Longhaus PTY LTD Understanding basic design elements, and their constraints, will determine the success or failure of the best assembled data centre strategy. At present it seems market hype is...

Strategic Path - Green Networking Equipment: Who Leads and Who Lags

Introduction In the data center, the advent of high-density computing equipment has sent power usage soaring. For instance, servers and their supporting infrastructure consumed an estimated 1.5% of US electricity in 2006, according to the Environmen...

Strategic Path - KEYS TO DATA CENTRE SUCCESS

Corporate IT is experiencing growing pains as they strive to leverage technology that improves productivity and creates competitive advantages – while at the same time, responding to pressure to do more with less. 3i Group’s Kris Kumar aske...

Vendor Insights

CISCO - A Unified Data Centre Network Fabric

As technology consolidation and virtualisation demands 100% uptime, extra bandwidth and the high-density of 10GIG, we interviewed Dylan Morison, Cisco’s regional head of data centres, to see how they are satisfying both the customer and technolog...

Cisco - Sanitarium deploys Cisco WAAS for its IT consolidation strategy

Cisco WAAS has been able to optimise application and file performance at remote sites, help centralise server and data centre infrastructure and allow for greater staff productivity and efficiency. Business Challenge Founded more than 100 years ...

Reichle & deMassari - Total Facility Management

1. Introduction Ever since the first large modern buildings were built, the challenge facing building managers has been how to centrally control and manage them. Numerous functions – from security and fire alarms, to power consumption and temp...

Belden - ReMax Int Case Study

Re/Max's corporate office facility houses a high-speed, high-bandwidth data communications network, VoIP, multimedia and professional broadcast systems – all supported by Belden IBDN® and specialty cables. RE/MAX International’s New ...

Reichle & deMassari - Security - A Meaningless Word?

Examining what business really wants By Yingbo Seiler, Product Manager Connectivity System, R&M Security is as important in the advertising vocabulary of cable and component manufacturers as “network failure” and “data loss&...

3Com - Safeguarding the Environment While Advancing Networked Communications

FASTER AND SMARTER COMMUNICATIONS Reducing energy consumption while increasing network functionality is a significant challenge, but typical of the complex issues that 3Com research and development teams are addressing. Because few places are free f...

Belden - Cabling for Tomorrow's Data Centre

Cabling for Tomorrow's Data Centre With some studies showing that as many as four in 10 of all network problems arise from cabling issues, The Strategic Path talks with Paul Kish of Belden about discuss issues on the company’s horizon – ...

R&M - A strong Sydney presence for R&M

A strong Sydney presence for R&M R&M describes how it has strengthened its Asia Pacifi c presence with the establishment of a Sydney offi ce and the two successful local implementations for major FSIs. Swiss cabling systems and components...

R&M - 10 Gigabit Ethernet

10 Gigabit Ethernet 1. Introduction Ethernet has proven itself over the years to be a robust protocol, constantly expanding the number of applications it serves while increasing performance. Today 10 Gigabit Ethernet is reality and already talk o...

R&M - Impact of 10GBASE-T on Cabling

Impact of 10GBASE-T on Cabling 1. Introduction With 10GBASE-T, IEEE is developing a protocol that will increase the transmission rate over twisted copper data cables in dimensions that seemed unattainable until recently. This progress has been ma...

R&M - Extended Office Cabling with Applications for Facility Managers

Extended Office Cabling with Applications for Facility Managers 1. Introduction Present trends in telecommunications and information technology in offices and work environments demand new integrated solutions for data and power connections to the...

R&M - Gigabit Ethernet over fiber optics

Gigabit Ethernet over fiber optics Ethernet is gaining in speed and the distances it can cover are growing too. With 10 Gigabit Ethernet in store the standard LAN protocol family can successfully compete against customary long-distance transmission ...

R&M - Home networks

Home networks Cabling of standard general form is guaranteed to meet changing requirements well into the future 1. Introduction Although many houses will stand for centuries, a lot of cabling systems won't last a single decade. That's because co...

R&M - Insulation Displacement Contact Technology for Power Applications

Insulation Displacement Contact Technology for Power Applications Greater reliability and quicker installation with Insulation Displacement Contact Technology Insulation Displacement Contacts have been well proven in connecting technology. They are...

R&M - MICE Environmental Classes: Orientation for Industrial Cabling

MICE Environmental Classes: Orientation for Industrial Cabling Three classes, four parameters and more than one hundred individual factors: A matrix for Industrial Applications Industrial Ethernet is advancing. Planners and users appreciate the cos...

R&M - Next Generation Networks – Infrastructures for the 21st Century

Next Generation Networks – Infrastructures for the 21st Century 1. Introduction Internet everywhere. Always online. All over IP. Flexible VPN. These buzzwords point out that once more extensive changes are emerging in the field of telecomm...

R&M - Safety gaps in the LAN?

Safety gaps in the LAN? A fear of the big blackout clouds the view to the many small risks Safety gaps in the LAN? Viruses, worms and Trojan horses frequently make headlines, with damage to large enterprises often reported to be in the hundreds ...

R&M - SC-RJ – the smallest of its kind

SC-RJ – the smallest of its kind The path from an innovative idea to standardization 1. Introduction A new optical connector for LAN connections for enterprises and industry: if it is not to remain a proprietary solution, it must be standa...

R&M - UL Certification – What Does it Signify?

UL Certification – What Does it Signify? Test methods, declarations and what they mean for the end user 1. Introduction "UL-listed", "fireproof", "UL94 V-0" - these are bench-marks that safety-conscious planners...

R&M - Total Facility Management

Total Facility Management 1. Introduction Ever since the first large modern buildings were built, the challenge facing building managers has been how to centrally control and manage them. Numerous functions – from security and fire alarms,...

Belden - 10GX™ 1U 48-Port Ultra High-Density Patch Panels

10GX™ 1U 48-Port Ultra High-Density Patch Panels Combine Unsurpassed Density with Beyond 10G Performance Once the proposed 10GBASE-T standard is published for unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cables, the number of 10 Gigabit networks will grow qu...

Belden - Case Study - IBDN Multi-gigabit cabling system

Founded in 1973, RE/MAX International, Inc. has evolved into the world’s leading real estate franchise networks, with over 120,000 agents operating in 6,500 offices in more than 65 countries around the globe. The award-winning firm recently opene...

Belden - Belden IBDN System 10GX Solutions

Belden CDT Networking — the result of a merger between Belden Electronics Networking Group and NORDX/CDT — has invigorated the industry by its ability to draw upon the profound technological experience and service capabilities of these once...

Belden - The next level of cabling performance

Belden IBDN System 10GX The next level of cabling performance by Paul Kish Director Belden IBDN Systems and Standards Introduction  There is a new standard under development in the IEEE 802.3an task force that will usher in the next level of ...

Belden - Data Centre Solutions

Belden knows your data center ismuchmore than a space that simply houses servers and network equipment. Fueled by e-commerce and the IP world we live in today, the data center has become the most critical asset – and investment – for nearly...

Belden - Belden IBDN™ Launches System 10GX™ at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

Belden IBDN™ Launches System 10GX™ at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Belden IBDN’s state-of-the-art 10 Gigabit structured cabling system — the first to guarantee 625 MHz network performance — is installed in mission-cr...

Belden - Case Study - Data Centre Upgrade

Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE®) Invests in Belden IBDN Systems for Data Center Upgrade With just one visit to a trading floor of a financial or commodities exchange, it’s easy to see that it’s a dynamic, stressful environ...

Belden - 10 Gbs LAN Networking

10 Gb/s LAN Networking: Optical Fiber LAN Design Considerations By Richard Perron, Eng., RCDD-LAN specialist Belden The purpose of this paper is to guide premise wiring telecommunications specialists through the decision making process regarding fu...

Belden - High Density Footprint

The trend today in fast-growing enterprise networks and data centers is for cables and connectivity-related products to become smaller and installations increasingly dense. The problem is, when engineers add more networking equipment and drive higher d...

Belden - Data Center Guide

1. Introduction 1.1 The term data center is used to describe a specialized facility for housing a large number of servers, storage devices, networking equipment and communications links. Past (and current) equivalents to a data center include mainfr...