NETWORK
news
April/May 2002
Vol9 No2
W
e recently played host to three
senior executives from the KRONE
Group who were impressed by, and
strongly supported our investment in
Australian R&D. Ron Lowy, Chief
Operating Officer, Rudolf Hadorn, Chief
Financial Officer and Phil Hewes, General
Counsel for the international KRONE
Group, visited our manufacturing
facilities at Berkeley Vale on the NSW
Central Coast and indicated that we will
be used more often to design products
for the world market.
Our HIGHBAND modules, have for a
number of years, been in networks in Europe,
North and South America and the Asia Pacific.
Our HIGHWAY RJ45 jacks are being
acknowledged as the best of their breed and are
having notable success in North America. In this
issue, Shane McIntosh tells how we are now
making substantial inroads into South America.
Over the last three-year period, KRONE
Australia has consistently achieved more than 80
per cent of our sales revenue from products that
are designed, developed and manufactured
entirely in Australia. A further 15 per cent are

individual steps, which slows down the
development process.
To enhance our efficiency, even further, in
product stewardship and commercialising R&D,
we have just merged our Product Development
and Marketing teams.
We’re all looking forward to the challenges
the rest of 2002 will bring us.
Sincerely ...
Craig Jones
CEO
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module and re-connect to the required office
area in a simple plug-and-play motion using a
patch cord. Periodically, the customer’s installer
visits to remove patch cords on permanent
circuits and replace them with hard wiring.
WHY PATCH BY EXCEPTION
WORKS
The RJ45 solution was designed to provide data
and telephone services to the user, rather than
to supply a permanent service to a workstation.
Traditionally, the benefit of this approach has
been that the end user or IT Manager could do
all their own moves, adds and changes without
using an installer.
As technology has progressed and the cost of
network devices has decreased, the provision of
computer outlets has increased. It is now highly
likely that if a person moves from one room to
another data services will already exist within
that room, and accessing the network simply
requires the person to plug their computer into
the port or outlet provided.
Another development that further contributes
to the acceptance of the Patch by Exception
solution is the virtual network hub. This means
that a network manager can control each
individual PC on the network and make any
moves, adds or changes via software - without
the need to leave his or her desk. In the same
manner, voice services are almost always

a product feature of our HIGHBAND modules. Working successfully in
sites in the Asia Pacific, Europe and the USA since the mid-1990s.
by Peter Davis, Sales and
Marketing Manager,
KRONE Australia
Typical hard wired solution
Patch cord Disconnects the original
circuit and redirects the signal
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I
n the last ten years, a wide variety of services
and systems have become available or cost
effective for homes, such as:
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multiple phones including keyphone systems
and cordless units, faxes and answering
machines;
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personal computers and Internet access;
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cable television and a wider range of free-to-
air services;
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security and fire alarm services;
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video door intercom units;
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the home theatre; and

the facilities of the Residential Gateway. These
include the integrity and security of
communications, delivery of commands to
devices in the home from external sources,
blocking of selected commands that may create
unsafe conditions, protection of the home from
risks inherent in a connection to the Internet and
the facilitation of financial payments.
The interoperability of home devices with
external services and features to enhance the
safety and security of network devices and
consumer transactions via the network are
essential elements of the electronic gate.
The Residential Gateway connects the remote
user via the Internet with the people,
equipment, appliances or services in the home.
Usually such devices or systems are objects or
nodes on the HAN.
Some of the potential interfaces and
supported networks of a Residential Gateway
are shown in Figure 1.
In all cases the electronic gateway provides the
mechanism whereby Wide Area Networks
(WANs) communicate with Home Area Networks
(HANs). The gateway may stand alone, it may be
embedded in another device, or more than one
gateway unit may be used. A number of
distributed gateway units may display the
behaviour of a single gateway.
Configurations may range from an approach

Gateway and the elements of a conforming
Residential Gateway; and
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safety requirements of home systems
connected to Wide Area Networks and the
role of the Residential Gateway.
To take full advantage of these interactive
electronic systems, your residence (whether it
is a house, apartment or a standalone home-
office area) should be wired for data and
telecommunications with flexible structured
cabling systems similar to those of com-
mercial premises.
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CSIRO standard, we selected KRONE because of
its high quality product, the fact that it was an
Australian manufacturer with substantial R&D
facilities, and, importantly, its 20/20 warranty.”
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The CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation), Australia’s largest scientific research centre, has
specified our PremisNET Bronze solution as its standard across all sites.
KRONE’S BRONZE SOLUTION AT
by Norm Kennedy, ACT
State Manager,
KRONE Australia
CSIRO has been a KRONE
customer since 1998 when
it first implemented Category 5
cabling infrastructure for voice
and data across a number
of the CSIRO sites.
Norm Kennedy,
KRONE Australia
(right) and Jeff Kell,
CSIRO