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
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10 HighBand
®
25, a new tool for
Kincrome success
Editor: Sarah Bishop
Art Direction: Nora Collins
Website: adckrone.com/au
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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.

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

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

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.

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

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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,

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.