ADC KRONE Network News - Vol.12 No.2 - 2005

In this issue . . .
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Unlocking the potential beauty of a structured cabling system
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Highlights from highTIME for the Carrier market
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Designing an Optimised Data Centre
Vol 12 No 2005
ADC KRONE News
3 Connecting with you
4 TrueNet( - True Performance,
True Reliability, One Solution
9 At your service
14 Visions for the WAN future at
highTIME
16 Free Training with Club KRONE
Technical Articles
5 Beauty and the Beast - adding
form and function
8 The 10Gig market has changed
12 Designing an Optimised Data
Centre
CCuussttoommeerr SSttoorriieess
10 HighBand
®
25, a new tool for
Kincrome success
Editor: Sarah Bishop
Art Direction: Nora Collins
Website: adckrone.com/au
S

o far 2005 has been very successful and
eventful for us in the Australian market. We
have been able to keep the momentum going
with consistent sales growth and increased
market share. Independent market research
shows ADC KRONE is Australia’s preferred
structured cabling provider, surpassing competitors
in quality and availability. Additionally, as the
combined entity we now are the major network
infrastructure supplier to both major network
operators.
The eventful start to the year has focused on
introducing our new go-to-market brand, ADC
KRONE, and showcasing our new global look and
feel. You may also have seen our first series of
advertisements highlighting the strengths of the
combined entity - ONE COMPANY. Endless
Solutions. The benefits of this integration will be
delivered to you, our customers, with a larger
portfolio of solutions, which combines our
expertise and utilises our global resource. You can
find information on ADC KRONE’s complete
portfolio for Australia on our new integrated
website, I encourage you to have a look at it.
We have hosted several events this year,
including high
TIME
for our Carrier customers in
Melbourne, where we presented our joint
capabilities and introduced our vision for the

network of the future. Our Australia-wide
roadshow to the enterprise market introduced
TrueNet
®
, our new global solution set targeted to
the enterprise market.
This quarter we completed organisational
changes by strengthening the Regional Senior
Management Team. The changes will support the
increased regional responsibility with ADC KRONE
in Australia being the Asia-Pacific headquarters.
With these changes in place I can confidently say
that we will serve you better both within Australia
and the region.
Most notably John Dulin has joined us as Vice
President Sales, Asia-Pacific region, to further
strengthen our sales capabilities. Having had
more than 20 years sales experience, John brings
vast experience of selling to Carrier customers
across Asia-Pacific to our team.
A year ago, we launched the revolutionary,
world-first true 10 Gigabit UTP solution -
CopperTen
™
. In this issue we also look at the
successful introduction of CopperTen into the
market. You’ll see some interesting insights in this
article on page 8.
Thank you for your continued support, we look
forward a successful second half of the year.

Sincerely,
Bob Fitzgerald
VP Regional Director
Asia Pacific Region
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CONNECTING WITH YOU!
I
would like to welcome Tim Takala
back to Australia. Tim is our
Corporate Business Manager and
will be working closely with our
local State Managers to ensure that
we better serve the needs of
consultants and large-scale projects.
Tim brings with him a wealth of
experience. Prior to his recent
appointment here, he was the
Director of Technical Services for
ADC KRONE in the US. In this role
he was our key technical support
resource for American corporate
customer.

Before leaving Australia 5 years
ago, Tim held the position of
Laboratory Manager and Technical
Manager at our head office in
Berkeley Vale.
Look out for Tim at our Seminars
- his knowledge is invaluable.
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INTRODUCING OUR CORPORATE BUSINESS MANAGER
I
t has been a pleasure meeting with many of you
at the recent events hosted by ADC KRONE.
A key aim of these events is to ensure that you are
kept abreast of the latest industry information
and to learn how we can service you better.
I tremendously enjoyed the discussions with
you at our recent roadshow, I hope you found
the presentations useful. Rob Milne gave us an
insightful look into the challenges ahead from
an IT Manager’s perspective. Tim Takala
brought the latest updates on network
developments from his experience in the US,
particularly relating to the uptake of PoE and 10
Gig products.
At the events we introduced TrueNet
®
, our new
global brand for end-to-end enterprise
infrastructure and structured cabling systems. In
addition to the known and trusted KRONE

connectivity portfolio, TrueNet Structured Cabling
solutions incorporate ADC KRONE’s unique fibre
connectivity, cable management solutions and
complementary solutions such as PoE controllers,
Modems and Media Conversion products.
The roadshow could only be considered a
great success, with around 500 people
attending in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra,
Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide.
The high
TIME
event for Carrier customers
recently held in Melbourne was an opportunity
to present our joint capabilities and to introduce
our vision for the network of the future to you. It
was an enlightening event with our Keynote
Speaker, Doug Ellens from our US parent
company, providing great insight into what the
market can expect in the future from ADC
KRONE. You can find out more about high
TIME
on page 5, there were sessions on a range of
topics.
CeBIT Australia is always a key event for us, an
opportunity to present our solutions to the
marketplace, both through our stand this year
and through several presentations daily by our
technical specialists. With TrueNet as a major
focus of our stand this year, ADC KRONE Sales
Executives and Product Managers were kept busy

answering enquirires from visitors keen to learn
more about our enhanced portfolio. Particularly
our CopperTen
™
solution and the Power over
Ethernet Controllers gathered tremendous
interest.
Thank you to those of you who visited us at
CeBIT to learn more about TrueNet. For those of
you unable to attend we look forward to seeing
you next year.
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TrueNet
®
Roadshow, high
TIME
, CeBIT - many opportunities to meet
with you.
Carsten Quiram, Regional
Marketing Director,
Indo Pacific
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A
t ADC KRONE, we are looking at the best
ways to service you, our valued customer.
Part of this is to simplify our solution offerings. In
the past you would have heard of the TrueNet
brand but now under the ADC KRONE banner

this means something very different.
Our previous solutions were referred to as
Premis
NET
®
Global Leader and Premis
NET
®
Enterprise solutions. Our Category 6 solutions
used TrueNet technology, an engineered
solution to ensure near-perfect impedance
matching to eliminate errors caused by the
cabling system in the network.
TrueNet has now become the global brand for
ADC KRONE’s complete range of Structured
Cabling and Data Centre products. The new
TrueNet is a marked improvement to the trusted
PremisNet® solutions. It combines KRONE’s
diverse copper solutions portfolio with the ADC
group’s unique fibre connectivity, cable
management and additional complementary
solutions.
Now that we have combined the ADC and
KRONE product portfolios, the TrueNet solution
truly is a comprehensive set of products
for all areas of your
network. From the
Campus backbone to
the building entrance
and all over the building

itself, TrueNet is the one
solution you need.
PROVEN COPPER
SOLUTIONS
TrueNet covers our tried and
proven Category 5 products
that have been on the market
since 1994. It covers our
Category 6 products that are
the only products covered by a
genuine throughput warranty.
And now it covers our
CopperTen
™
solution, the first
copper UTP solution to carry 10 Gigabit
transmission over the full 100 metres.
IMPROVED FIBRE SOLUTIONS
We utilise state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities
at Berkeley Vale, NSW. More than 90% of all fibre
cable sold by ADC KRONE is manufactured in
Australia.
Whether it is Single-Mode, OM1, OM2 or OM3
Multimode cable, whether it is ST, SC, LC, MTRJ
or FC connectivity, whether it is 100 metres or
100,000 metres, TrueNet has the right fibre
solution.
NEW COMPLEMENTARY SOLUTIONS
The new TrueNet includes our recently
developed Power over Ethernet controllers.

These Midspan controllers are a cost effective
way to inject power to remote devices over your
existing cabling system without degrading
performance.
TrueNet now also includes a comprehensive
cable management portfolio, media converters
and a range of campus type products.
All ADC KRONE’s products under the
TrueNet banner including cable
management, media
converter and campus type
products will be covered
by a ADC KRONE TrueNet
warranty of up to 20
years.
TrueNet allows
you to push your
network to the
performance edge.
With guaranteed
signal integrity
and throughput
that your mission-
critical network
can rely on.
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TRUENET
®
A TRUE GLOBAL SOLUTION
True Performance, True Reliability, One Solution

Glen Johnston,
Product Manager
Structured Cabling,
Indo Pacific
I
n expansions of existing facilities or moves into
new spaces, careful thought is usually given to
colours and decorative features. When it comes to
the structured cabling system, however, the
aesthetics of the components are often not
considered. So while space planners argue over
carpet choices and wall art, the decision criteria
for physical layer projects is normally limited to
functionality and price - which makes sense
because most brands of cable managers, cable,
and patch panels offer a similar appearance and
performance within defined requirements.
Decisions based upon function and price also
make sense because the structured cabling
system is usually hidden from view with cables
behind walls and within Telecommunications
Rooms (TRs).
However, as technology has become a more
integral part of business today, companies are
increasingly considering display of technology an
important aspect of the corporate persona. For
these companies, the voice and data
infrastructure becomes an integral part of the
overall space design where decision criteria now
reaches beyond functionality into the aesthetic

attributes of the structured cabling system. From
law firms to ISPs, rows of equipment racks are
now behind glass walls in reception areas. TCs,
TRs, and ERs have moved from confined or
custodial closets to more central and visible
locations.
The drive for aesthetics in the structured cabling
system has resulted in an unexpected benefit -
aesthetically pleasing designs have actually
improved the reliability and usability of the
network. It appears that aesthetics deliver a dual
benefit for the cabling infrastructure: beauty that
is not a beast to manage.
NEW METHODS FOR SHOWCASING
TECHNOLOGY
CNET regards cabling, TCs, and server rooms as
key design elements. As a result, on this project,
all horizontal cabling (specified Category 6 for
voice and data) is exposed, using orange and grey
to match corporate branding colours. Orange
horizontal cables are also exposed on polished
aluminum ladder racks up and down hallways.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
The appearance of a structured cabling system is not often
considered. John Schmidt uncovers its potential beauty.
John Schmidt, Product
Manager, Data
Connectivity and Cable
Management Solutions,
Americas

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Figure 1: Connect ports to the same side of the same bay using vertical cable
managers with slack managers for handling extra cable lengths.
“It appears that aesthetics
deliver a dual benefit for the
cabling infrastructure: beauty
that is not a beast to
manage.”
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Server Rooms (Equipment Rooms) feature glass
walls with orange spotlights pointed on
equipment racks. And on each of the six floors,
there are three “cages” situated among
workstations, with specially built metal sliding
panels for access and open viewing. (See Figure
1). It is these cages that required the most
thought in the overall structured cabling design
because they are entirely visible throughout each
floor and have the most potential to look bad if
moves or changes create a jumble of patch cords.
(See Figure 2).
The design committee settled upon this design
that had already proven its ability to maintain a
long-term, orderly appearance. The design called
for angled ports on patch panels with half of the
ports facing left and half facing right. In addition,

horizontal trays were eliminated in favour of
vertical cable managers providing horizontal
support as well as a more high tech appearance
than traditional vertical rings. This combination of
angled ports, no horizontal trays, and vertical
cable managers sweeps patch cords directly into
the vertical cable managers mounted on each side
of each rack - offering a striking effect. (See
Figure 3).
“We knew each vendor was certified for
Category 6 and could do the job for us,” said Don
McGill, Director of Client Services for CNET.
“However, when we saw how eliminating
horizontal trays and angling ports on patch
panels really forces technicians to route patch
cords into the vertical cable manager, we saw
something entirely unique among the vendors
who presented to us. We immediately knew this
was a design that would maintain a good
appearance,” he said.
USE OF NON-TRADITIONAL METHODS
Choosing vertical cable managers and patch
panels with angled ports in lieu of a system of
vertical rings, flat profile patch panels, and
horizontal trays delivers multiple, intertwined
benefits, according to Garry Schroeder, RCDD,
Project Engineer with Parsons Technologies in
Minneapolis. Schroeder implemented the angled
port/vertical cable management system at client
sites over the last couple of years, including

Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Watson Wyatt, and
Riverpath Medical Clinic.
“Horizontal management never really gets used
properly because it can be so time consuming,”
said Schroeder. “Methods that use horizontal
cable support trays require a lot of extra steps
that busy people might not take. Short cuts that
bypass horizontal trays and route patch cords in
all directions end up with racks that are a sloppy
Figure 2: Upper and lower crossover managers enable
connection of ports on opposite sides of the bay while
maintaining an orderly appearance.
However, as technology has become a
more integral part of business today,
more companies consider display of
technology an important aspect of the
corporate persona.