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Vol 11 No4 2004
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f there’s something you can count on in
the IT industry, it’s change. Driven by
constant innovation and an ever evolving
marketplace, the IT industry stands still
for no one. Successful companies thrive
on change using experience, ingenuity
and determination to stay ahead of the
pack.
With the recent amalgamation of ADC
and KRONE, we too are changing.
KRONE’s history has been a long and
distinguished one with over 75 years of
service, continually producing innovative
products to meet customer and
marketplace expectations.

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We look forward to the remainder of 2004 and
are excited about the opportunities our new
partnership with ADC will bring, not only for
KRONE, but for you our customers.
Sincerely
Craig Jones
Managing Director
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CHANGE: A KEY DRIVER FOR SUCCESS!
New milestone for KRONE, new direction for success
Business Articles
10 Cabling Standards Update
Customer Stories
12 Free Space Optics Provides Remote
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14 HIGHBAND 25 Simplifies Patching for
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Industry News
6 The Need For Speed... The SAN
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to improve our service internally, with the recent
decentralisation of our help desk to each of our
individual state offices. Our new internal sales
people will now be able to support your needs
from a local perspective, providing a more
personalised line of support.
With a strong first half already on the board,
we’re now looking forward to the second half of
2004 to continue implementing new strategies
and meeting the needs of the marketplace in an
effort to secure contracts and grow the KRONE
brand. I’m confident, that with a strong customer
focus and a dynamic sales team, coupled with
local support, that KRONE will continue to lead
the market.
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RONE Australia’s ongoing commitment to manu-
facturing excellence was recently recognised at the
Central Coast Manufacturers’ Association’s (CCMA)
2004 Innovation Awards.
Presented by The Honourable Ian Macfarlane MP,
Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, KRONE
received a record four awards including Large
Manufacturer of the Year.
Other awards included Innovation in Marketing,
Innovation in Training and Innovation in Product
Design, recognising KRONE’s combined expertise in the
successful design, development and marketing of
innovative connectivity products.

solutions that satisfied and exceeded customers’
expectations.
Let’s now use Jules Verne’s time machine to
take a trip back through time and explore the
history behind these two pioneering companies.
Just like the movie, let’s start from today and work
backwards...
BURSTING OF THE BUBBLE
The last five years has been somewhat of a roller
coaster for the industry and all its players. Both
KRONE and ADC have ridden through the
turmoil, first growing with the bubble and then
coming to grips with the downturn. In recent
times, focusing on their key customers and core
business, and at the same time managing to
provide leadership in the marketplace with such
products as KRONE’s CopperTen
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10 Gigabit
Ethernet solution, and ADC’s Fibre to the Home
solution that is currently being deployed by
operators in the U.S.
DIGITAL REVOLUTION
Setting our dial back to the beginning of the
digital revolution, it is interesting to see that both
companies played an integral part in their
respective fields. ADC has been one of the leaders
in the digital central office with fibre and copper
digital cross connect systems. ADC played a
significant part with new operators in the

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A SHARED HISTORY OF INNOVATION
A historical correlation of two extraordinary network connectivity companies
and their enduring ingenuity.
By Bob Fitzgerald,
VP Regional Director,
Indo-Pac Region, ADC
ADC and KRONE
present day facilities.
for both companies in their traditional home
markets of Germany and the United States. It was
also a time when they ventured out beyond their
traditional borders into the world markets and
established their global footprint.
BAKERLITE ERA
We now wind back the dial to the Bakerlite Era.
These were the days when connectors were built
like battleships. Both KRONE and ADC were
experts in the modern field of materials such as
bakerlite plastics and solder connection
technology. In the U.S., ADC was building jacks
and jackfields for the audio and broadcast
industry. Meanwhile, in Germany, KRONE was
manufacturing solder blocks and bakerlite
telephones for the German Bundespost. Both
companies had reached a level of critical mass,
where they had an established product line,
sound engineering and a name in their respective
markets. No doubt the founders of each company

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Above: ADC’s early manufacturing facility.
Right: ADC’s very first product, the audio meter.
Berlin 1930
Fa-Me-Ku ( a factory
for metal and plastic)
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n the last issue (June/July 2004) of Network
News I outlined one of the future drivers for high
speed, 10 Gigabit networking in the horizontal;
Grid Computing. The grid computer environment
however, may still be a few years away from mass
acceptance and deployment by IT departments,
so I believe it salient to discuss a technology which
is readily available now and beyond the early
adopter stage. I would restate however, that
while technologies like Grid Computing maybe a
few years off yet for many, if an investment in
structured cabling solutions is being made now, it
will probably be in place for at least the next five
years and most likely up to ten; when
technologies like Grid Computing will be
mainstream.
A branch of distributed computing however,
that is now moving to extensive deployment
within the IT department is the Storage Area
Network, or SAN. Up until now, disk storage is
predominately directly attached (DAS) to the

guard against circumstances of total disk
subsystem failure and site disaster recovery
requirements. In a department which has multiple
servers, this requires different backup scenarios
and the handling and managing of large
quantities of media of potentially many different
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THE NEED FOR SPEED:THE SAN
Applications for 10 Gigabit UTP Technology
By Rob Milne, Business
Development Manager,
KRONE Australia
“Riding the IP wave of technology
development and enhancements like
the introduction of 10 Gigabit
Ethernet, iSCSI provides a logical
unified infrastructure development
path for corporations and service
providers alike.” - Adaptec.
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