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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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)

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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