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CASE
study
KRONE Australia
2 Hereford Street Berkeley Vale NSW 2261
PO Box 335 Wyong NSW 2259
Phone: 02 4388 4422
Fax: 02 4388 4499
Help Desk: 1800 801 298
Email:
Web: www.krone.com.au
AC Nielsen opts for KRONE's
TrueNet
™
for its new premises
Market research giant selects TrueNet structured cabling
solution to guarantee its information output for the next
20 years
ACNielsen Australia Pty Limited has selected
KRONE's Premis
NET
Silver Category 5eT structured
cabling solution from KRONE Australia for its new
premises at Macquarie Park, 11 Talavera Road in the
Sydney suburb of North Ryde.
More than 190 kilometres of the TrueNet CAT 5eT
end-to-end cabling solution has been laid by
KRONE endorsed installers, SJ Watts and Somerville,
at the five-storey site which was completed and
occupied at the end of January this year.
When the processing of more than 25 million records
a week into market research reports is the lifeblood

of your organisation, it is imperative that your
computer network can cope with millions of bytes of
information processed each day and be prepared for
future business expansion and the increased
bandwidth required by emerging technologies.
In addition, when your company is the world's
leading provider of market research, information
and analysis to the consumer products and services
industries, as well as to government and social
services and, by virtue of corporate acquisitions, its
main New South Wales operations are situated in
three separate locations, it is a golden opportunity
to re-assess the capabilities of your existing network.
ACNielsen was the first IBM commercial mainframe site
in Australia and in the early days of its former premises
adopted a 16 Megabit token ring network. The
computing infrastructure uses Novell and Windows NT
and multiple Relational databases, supported by
Compaq servers and HP UNIX equipment.
Over the past few years the company has acquired
the businesses of AGB McNair, Reark Research and
Aim Data. Each organisation operates from a
separate location, running different networks.
The new Talavera Road premises were
commissioned to integrate all the disparate
businesses and computer networks and 450 Sydney-
based people into the one building.
The first step in establishing the new information
technology and telecommunications network was
to ensure ACNielsen had the best possible

structured cabling infrastructure to support its
present and future requirements.
"We asked our electrical and data cabling
consultant, Steve Watts of SJ Watts for his
recommendations," said ACNielsen's Director,
Systems and Technology, Peter Fernie. "Steve has
been working with ACNielsen for eight years and
knows the demands of our network."
Times have changed and, besides the traditional
printed market research reports ACNielsen
produces for its customers, it now offers the
information electronically - via hard media like CDs
or via the Internet.
The company has been using both 16 megabit
token ring and a 10/100 switched megabit ethernet
networks which were showing signs of inefficiency
and relatively high maintenance.
"Our staff place great demands on our network
and as those demands intensify it was vital that the
structured cabling solution we select should give us
the best possible throughput of data on a 100
megabits switched ethernet network.
CASE
study
KRONE Australia
2 Hereford Street Berkeley Vale NSW 2261
PO Box 335 Wyong NSW 2259
Phone: 02 4388 4422
Fax: 02 4388 4499
Help Desk: 1800 801 298

Email:
Web: www.krone.com.au
"Steve Watts was impressed by the various TrueNet
solutions and, indeed, had acquired certification by
KRONE Australia as a TrueNet endorsed installer. He
had no hesitation in specifying KRONE's TrueNet
Silver solution, based on HIGHBAND modules and
HIGHWAY patch panels, as the best for our purposes.
"One of the key factors in our decision to adopt
TrueNet was that KRONE could guarantee us zero
bit error rate on 100 megabit throughput for five
years, and the overall cabling infrastructure had a
20-year warranty for parts and labour," said Mr
Fernie. "Plus, KRONE actually audited the
installation of the network to ensure it adhered to
Australian standards and, indeed, to the company's
own certification requirements."
Peter Davis, Sales and Marketing Manager, KRONE
Australia, said: "We live in tumultuous times, where
change is constant. Our customers need to be
confident that what they're getting is the best possible
product to cope with present and future needs.
"The current ISO standard for cable-to-connector
and connector-to-patch leads connections allows a
15 ohm difference in the components. The recently
drafted revised standard tightens this allowance to
6 ohms difference. We think this is still too high as
it allows an error rate that can mean constant
retransmission of information, severely impacting
business efficiency and communications

effectiveness. That's why our TrueNet solutions
have a maximum of 3 ohms difference and it is why
we can confidently give our guarantee to customers
such as ACNielsen," he said.