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KRONE (Australia) Holdings Pty Limited
2 Hereford Street Berkeley Vale NSW 2261
PO Box 335 Wyong NSW 2259
Phone: 02 4389 5000
Fax: 02 4388 4499
Help Desk: 1800 801 298
Email:
Web: www.krone.com.au
6063 05/03
It's KRONE Cat 6 for University
of Queensland
Product performance and reliability and competitive pricing ensure
KRONE wins large contract.
The University of Queensland (UQ) awarded an
$800,000 contract for a Cat6 solution for the joint
UQ/CSIRO biotechnology building to KRONE Australia.
Of necessity, universities lead the way as adopters
of new technologies and UQ is no different. It was
among the first Australian educational institutions
to offer courses on biotechnology, the applied
science that studies the cells of plants, animals and
microbes to develop products and processes to
improve our daily lives.
At present, UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience
(IMB) - its courses, staff and students - are spread
across a number of buildings on St Lucia Campus. It
is UQ's aim to house them in the one building by
the end of 2002.
The new joint UQ/CSIRO building where the IMB

NET
®
Cat 6 solution
of cable, connectors and patch panels as well as
KRONE fibre pigtails, connectors and patch panels,"
said Mr. Browning. "The value of this part of the
project is estimated to be around $800,000."
Construction of the UQ/CSIRO building at the UQ
St Lucia Campus, where the Institute for Molecular
Bioscience will be located
CASE
study
KRONE (Australia) Holdings Pty Limited
2 Hereford Street Berkeley Vale NSW 2261
PO Box 335 Wyong NSW 2259
Phone: 02 4389 5000
Fax: 02 4388 4499
Help Desk: 1800 801 298
Email:
Web: www.krone.com.au
6063 05/03
The KRONE endorsed installer, ABB, has commenced
laying 450 kilometres of cable throughout the
building providing voice and data to 5,300 outlets.
" KRONE's Queensland team worked closely with us
to ensure we gain the maximum benefit from our
Premis
NET
®
solution," said Mr. Browning. "They

projects," said Mr. Browning. " To date they have
won our business because of product performance
and reliability and competitive pricing."
About the University of Queensland
Founded in 1909, the University of Queensland is
the State's oldest higher education institution with
approximately 4,500 staff, 30,000 students and
5,500 courses across three campuses - at St Lucia,
Gatton and Ipswich.
Established as the primary campus in 1948, St Lucia
is located on a 115-hectare site in the picturesque
inner-city suburb of St Lucia, bounded by the
Brisbane River on three sides. As well as
Queensland's most extensive multimedia library,
state-of-the-art laboratories and lecture theatres,
the campus houses 2,000 students in ten residential
colleges. On-campus facilities include extensive
world-class sporting venues, a shopping arcade,
banks, post office, cinema, theatre, restaurants,
refectories and recreation precincts. Many of the
gracious sandstone buildings are more than 50
years old.
KRONE Premis
NET
products used by the
University of Queensland are:
Cat 6 UTP cable
KM8 Patch Panels
KM8 RJ45 data outlets
C6T Patch Cords