- A new approach to improve data center efficiency and increase effectiveness - Benefits beyond the older focus on power and cooling - A more holistic approach to Data Center design - Integrates five key elements of the data center - Real world solutions to real world problems

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Next Generation
Connected
Infrastructure

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 What is Connected Infrastructure
 Why It Matters
 The 5 Key Aspects of Connected
Infrastructure
Contents
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What Is Connected
Infrastructure?
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• A new approach to improve data
center efficiency and increase
effectiveness
• Benefits beyond the older focus on
power and cooling
• A more holistic approach to Data
Center design
• Integrates five key elements of the
data center
• Real world solutions to real world
problems
The Connected Infrastructure Approach
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Connected Infrastructure combines our solutions,
industry leading customer advocacy, design and
support teams, for a comprehensive approach to
your network. Through Connected Infrastructure,
we deliver maximum performance, time saving,
space optimization, superior customer experience
and sustainability by design, to address your
challenges, today and tomorrow.
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Why Connected
Infrastructure Matters!

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• We must increase data center
efficiency to meet the demand
of “do more with less”
• We need new places in the data
center where larger savings are
possible
• We need to increase the
capabilities of the data center
without massive capital
investment
• We must go beyond the gains
from a narrow focus on power
and cooling infrastructure in
the data center
The Benefits from Connected Infrastructure &
Why It Matters!
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5 Aspects of
Connected
Infrastructure
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• Focus on performance as workloads
increase dramatically
• Reliability is a critical component of
performance and improved cable
management increases availability
• This creates a new focus on the
performance of the datacenter
network
• Insertion loss now loom large
• Poor network cable management and
implementations cause bottlenecks
Performance
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• Save staff time with faster
deployment of moves/adds/
changes with better cabling
solutions
• Research show 90% of active
devices in the data center will be
changed in a 5-10 year period –
Minimize this impact with
racks/cabinets flexible enough to
accommodate new equipment
• Simplify the installation and
cabling of new devices to save
staff resources
• Connected Infrastructure speeds
deployment of new solutions and
data center projects
Time
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• Gartner’s new Infinite data center
initiative is an important approach
for maximizing the investment by
growing vertically
• Connected Infrastructure provides
solutions for higher capacity
within the existing “footprint”
• Increase port and cable density
options to free up rack units and
support more active devices
• Provide a range of more flexible
and scalable options for
infrastructure to maximize current
data center space
Space
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• Connected Infrastructure delivers
Legrand’s engineering expertise
as needed for the individual
customer’s specific project
• Provide expertise and project
guides to collaboratively develop
the project design and
specifications
• Provide a single point of contact to
support a local to global
relationship with the customer
Customer Experience
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• Connected Infrastructure helps
you meet regulatory compliance
demands with products designed
for today’s statutes
• Provide an entire range of state of
the art energy efficient solutions
for the data center
• Products that are Restriction of
Hazardous Substances (RoHS)
compliant
• Legrand is a leader and committed
to environmental stewardship,
resulting in products that actually
contribute LEED points and reduce
environmental impact
Sustainability
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Connected Infrastructure Supports Key IT
Initiatives
• Improving density and overall data center throughput provides a
better environment for highly virtualized or cloud computing
projects
• Optimizing data center space and rack unit availability provides
the space necessary to support rapidly expanding infrastructure
to support new mobile and end user driven applications
• Offering solutions that align with Gartner’s Infinite Data Center
recommendation to maximize data center space
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Connected Infrastructure is an approach from
Legrand that provides the next level of
efficiency and effectiveness for data
centers and the staff who run them.
The five aspects of Connected Infrastructure
work synergistically and have a more
holistic view of the data center than power
and cooling solutions alone.
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