Tài liệu ADC KRONE Network News - Vol.08 No.6 - 2002 docx

NETWORK
news
December 2001/January 2002
Vol8 No6
AROUND
THE GLOBE
CONNECTING PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY
D
ecember 12, 2001 sees the end
of our 20th anniversary year and
we celebrate our 21st birthday. We
have certainly attained our majority
and come of age in the past 12
months.
Besides receiving an Australian
Electrical and Electronic Manu-
facturers’ Association (AEEMA)
award for ‘Excellence in Product
Stewardship’. AEEMA also gave us
special commendations for our work
in Energy Efficiency and
Commercialising R&D.
Another accolade came from GIO
when KRONE Australia won its
Business Star of the Year Award in the Market
Share category. This honour followed not long
after the well-respected global research
organisation, BSRIA UK, confirmed we had the
lion’s share of the structured cabling market in
Australia. We have achieved more than double
the market share of our nearest competitor.

Local skill and expertise in the design,
development, testing, and marketing of
innovative connectivity products has seen
KRONE Australia become the self-sufficient
organisation that we are today and our Berkeley
Vale plant on the NSW Central Coast is the
manufacturing Centre of Competence for the
Asia Pacific region. We design and develop more
than 75 per cent of the KRONE Group’s regional
product
requirements
there and approx-
imately 90 per cent
of the product range
for Australia.
The last three months of 2001 have been
tumultuous, as we have seen the world change
and wage war against terrorism. The IT&T
industry is suffering in the aftershock of job cuts
and declines in profits. The travel and tourism
industry is in decline.
Despite the uncertainty of the moment, we
are looking forward to the New Year and the
challenges it will present.
KRONE succeeds because of its people and its
customers. I’m happy to report that we’re on
track for strong results this year. As always, we
will continue to strive to develop new
technologies to meet your needs. 2002 will be
no different.

Thank you to our people, our partners and our
customers for your support.
We, at KRONE, wish you good health and
prosperity for the future.
Sincerely ...
Craig Jones
CEO
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NETWORKnews
Business Articles
5 A Solution for Every Need
Customer Stories
4 City Rail Plays it Safe
Standards and Industry News
12 Boosted Cable Performance Tests
the Testers
KRONE News
3 A Year of Milestones & Accolades
8 New Staff
8 On The Road with Optical Access
9 GIO andAEEMA Vote KRONE
the best
10 KRONE’s International Success
13 Access
NET
Hightime Seminars
16 Club KRONE
Product News
6 Product Watch

14 Lightning Charges Towards
Networks
Website: www.krone.com.au
Email:
CONTENTS
Copyright © 2001 KRONE Australia Holdings Pty. Limited
WE COME OF AGE
NETWORKnews
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First Quarter: January - March
6 Premis
NET
HIGHLIGHT
®
fibre cable is
introduced
6 Club KRONE introduces bonus redemption
points against training
6 Club KRONE website is launched
Second Quarter: April - June
6 HighTIME Conference held in Port Douglas
6 TrueNet demonstrated at BiCSi and
Networld+Interop, Sydney
6 Premis
NET
Intelligent Building solution showcased
at AEEMA Cleaner, Greener Smarter Conference
6 Win $20 million Telstra Customer Access Network
contract

6 Participate in the Copper Development Council’s
Smart Wired House Project
6 UK BSRIA Report confirms our leadership position
in the Australian structured cabling systems market
6 2000/2001 Catalogue available
Third Quarter:July - September
6 MASTERminder™ rack mountable cable
minder launched
6 Five-ring Patch Cord Minder introduced
6 Fibre range expanded for Access
NET
and
Premis
NET
customers
6 KRONE appointed Australian distributor for
Optical Access wireless solutions
6 Club KRONE introduces online redemption
6 TrueNet demonstrated at Networld+Interop,
Melbourne
Fourth Quarter: October - December
6 Fibre and Optical Wireless products on show at
Optical Networking Conference, Sydney
6 All products on show at Canberra Trade Day
6 Win GIO Business Star of the Year
Award in the Market Share category
6 Win AEEMA Award for Excellence
in Product Stewardship
6 Win AEEMA Special
Commendations for excellence in

Energy Efficiency and Commercialising
R&D
6 All KRONE products certified as
A-Tick compliant
6 AirLAN
™
wireless LAN family
launched
6 BROADWAY
™
4 home
cabling system introduced
6 TrueNet
™
Cat 6 Patch
Cords available
6 ComProtect
™
over-voltage
product launched
A YEAR OF MILESTONES AND ACCOLADES
T
he safety of the hundreds of
thousands of passengers who
use Sydney’s CityRail network is of
paramount importance to the
management team at the State
Rail Authority (SRA). Vandalism
and/or anti-social behaviour is a
major concern.

Philips Projects Australasia (now
Tyco Integrated Systems) was one
of the successful bidders for the
highly contested contract for
what is the largest project of its
type in the world.
In all, more than
5,700 CCTV cameras have
been installed at 302 CityRail
stations and major CityRail
precincts such as
commuter car parks and
bus interchanges.
Images from all cameras
are recorded at two frames
per second, 24 hours a day.
This huge volume of data is
maintained by a digital
recording and storage system that
provides reliable, high quality images for
use in legal prosecution proceedings.
An intranet network links each of the CityRail
stations. Monitoring of the system (including live
video) can take place from designated remote
control room locations.
The success of the CCTV rollout
was evident during the 2000
Sydney Olympics, when the
cameras were effectively used for
security and crowd control.

John Freeland, Philips’ Site
Supervisor for SRA said of
TERMINATOR: “ One particular
advantage of the KRONE
TERMINATOR system was the
ability to add fuse protection with
indication to the camera supply
circuits when required without
having to change terminals and
wiring.”
“ KRONE’s TERMINATOR was the cabling
termination solution specified by Philips
Projects,” said Greg Lankow, Managing Director
of systems integrator, Eurovac. “ Prior to the
CityRail project, we had no experience with the
product and, as a first time user, found it
extremely easy to use. It actually halves the
length of time we would normally have spent on
stripping the wires down and connecting them
to terminals.
“ From an ongoing maintenance point of view,
fusable links can be easily monitored. There are
test points on the KRONE block where a probe
may be inserted to determine the voltage and
gauge the density of the signal. Before
TERMINATOR, we would have had to pull wires
out and test each one individually,” said Mr
Lankow.
“ We were so impressed by all the features the
KRONE TERMINATOR system offers - and the

fact that it is an Australian-manufactured
product - that we are now specifying it for our
other CCTV sites, particularly in the hotel
security area.” 
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NETWORKnews
WITH TERMINATOR
®
CITYRAIL PLAYS IT SAFE
by Jeff Glen, Manager,
KRONE Australia’s Power
& Control Division
“ We were so impressed by all the
features the KRONE TERMINATOR
system offers that we are now
specifying it for our other
CCTV sites.”
NETWORKnews
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O
ur Premis
NET
solutions are classified in
Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum levels.
By having four categories of Premis
NET
solutions, we aim to match people’s technical
requirements with their financial expectations.

For instance, we offer 20-year warranties.
Realistically, if you manage the network in an
organisation with a two-year lease on a floor in
a building, why would you need a 20-year
warranty?
Our Premis
NET
Bronze level is a standards-
compliant, Cat 5E solution.
If you don’t have a huge dependence on IT, or
don’t have an upgrade plan, the bronze plan is
probably fine for you. Maybe you are a small
organisation with no desire to move from 10
megabit Ethernet. We would then offer a cost-
effective, bronze level solution that met your
technical requirements.
The Silver level is still standards-compliant to
Cat 5E but we call it ‘Cat 5ET (the T standing for
TrueNet)
™
. Our TrueNet systems (silver and
platinum levels) have cable and connector
components that have been impedance
matched. Therefore we can offers the customer
a five-year warranty during which time we will
guarantee zero bit error rate in the network. It’s
a step up from the basic Cat 5E solution.
At the gold and platinum end, if you are a
large organisation that owns its premises - a
good example would be a university or corporate

headquarters - you are committed for the long
term and probably have a high dependence on
IT. If the majority of your users are still using
10megabit of Ethernet but you have a planned
migration within two years to Gigabit Ethernet,
Voice over IP and videoconferencing, then you
would want to install the best premium products
available.
‘Gold’ is a standards-compliant Cat 6 solution.
As yet, there is no approved standard for Cat 6
but some customers still strive for that level of
performance. Our gold level solution conforms
to the proposed Cat 6 standard as we know it
today.
The next level is our ‘Platinum’, Cat6T solution
(again, the T is for TrueNet). This gives all the
electrical parameters that we know for
Cat 6 and comes not only with a 20-
year parts, labour and service
warranty but also carries a five-
year throughput warranty
guaranteeing zero bit error
rate performance.
For more information or
to taylor a solution to
your needs, contact your
KRONE representative
in your State.
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by Peter Davis

Sales and Marketing
Manager
KRONE Australia
A SOLUTION FOR EVERY NEED
KRONE’s Premis
NET
™ structured cabling solutions take into account
the differing needs of our customers and provide unrivalled
flexibility and reliability for every type of network demand.
PREMISNET
By having four categories of
Premis
NET
solutions, we aim to
match people’s technical
requirements with their financial
expectations.
KRONE is A-Tick OK
All telecommunications equipment must carry the Australian Communications Authority
(ACA) A-Tick mark. It has been introduced to give consumers confidence that a
telecommunications product meets the safety and technical standards set by the ACA. The
ACA warns that use of products that don’t carry the A-Tick label is not only unsafe and
potentially damaging to the network, but that penalties may also be imposed.
All components of our Premis
NET
and Access
NET
solutions carry the A-Tick mark in
accordance with ACA regulations and our Product Compliance Folders are easily accessible
at our Berkeley Vale headquarters.

Platinum C6T
TrueNet
TM
CAT 6T
Ultimate system efficiency
and future proofing
Gold C6
CAT 6/CLASS E Channel
Future proofing for
Gigabit Ethernet and
beyond
Bronze C5e
CAT 5e/CLASS D - 2000
Powersum Compliant Components
Silver C5eT
TrueNet
TM
CAT 5eT
Maximum system
efficiency for
Gigabit Ethernet
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NETWORKnews
THE WIRELESS LAN FOR
ALL ENTERPRISES
Workers on the move, whether they are in large
or medium enterprises, small business or SOHO
situations, can all benefit from KRONE’s new
broadband wireless local area network (LAN)

solution, AirLAN
™
.
We’ve expanded our Premis
NET
product
portfolio into the wireless area and AirLAN will
provide mobile workers with access to e-mail,
the Internet and business networks.
AirLAN is designed as a competitively priced,
easy-to-install, plug-and-play
solution that enables
communication from
anywhere in a building, at
any time.
Based on the IEEE 802.11b
standard for wireless
communications, there are
three products in the KRONE
AirLAN family:
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the Access Point acts as a
bridge between wireless and
Ethernet networks;
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the PC Card for mobile
notebook computers allows
the user to access in-home
or corporate networks when combined with the
Access Point; and

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the USB Adapter plugs into the desktop PC,
enabling the mobile computer user wireless
access to the home PC or network when
combined with the Access Point.
All three products can be used together to
provide expanded wireless communications.
The key benefit of the AirLAN family is that
mobile notebook users have the freedom to
move from room to room, or floor to floor, while
still maintaining a high-speed, 11Mbps wireless
connection to the business or SOHO local area
network.
It is a quick and easy-to-install; plug-and-play
solution that minimises the potential of tangled
cabling
The AirLAN family is ideal for: small office/home
office (SOHO) operators, difficult-to-wire
buildings, frequently changing environments,
mobile users within a corporate network, and
areas that don’t need permanent access to a LAN.
AirLAN’s operating system supports Windows
95/98/NT/2000ME. The product’s external
operating range covers140 metres at 11Mbps,
200 metres at 5.5Mbps and 400 metres at
1Mbps. Inside the building, at close office range,
AirLAN reaches 30 metres at 11Mbps, 35 metres
at 5.5Mbps and 50 metres at 1Mbps.
PRODUCT WATCH
BUSINESS OR HOME, KRONE COVERS IT ALL

by Glen Johnston,
Product Development
Manager, KRONE
Australia