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This document provides an overview of CommScope and why it is well-suited to enable new corporate campus infrastructure. It discusses CommScope's expertise in copper, fiber, and wireless media and how these relate to applications. It also reviews top technology trends from PwC, including pervasive computing, and how CommScope can support these through solutions like its distributed antenna system.
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- 1. Bridging the gapbetween infrastructure and applications: Why Choose CommScope February 2013
- 2. 2PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Intro and Agenda: next 30 minutes • Mark Niehus, RCDD- Territory Sales Manager- manufacturer rep for CommScope for 12 years • Assumption that you are planning new corporate campus- need to build right infrastructure • Brief overview of CommScope • Discussion of basic characteristics of copper, fiber, wireless media- and how they are tied to your applications • Review of PWC 2013 Top 10 Technology Trends for Business- and how CommScope can enable
- 3. 3PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Bandwidth Evolution terabytes weekly YouTube new storage 24 exabytes internet traffic per month percent bandwidth demand growth billion mobile broadband subscribers billion sensors attached to the internet 2009 2012 2013 2014 2020 44 500 2.5 50 B A N D W I D T H Source: Industry reports
- 4. 4PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc New Apps Are Changing the Way We… LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN
- 5. 5PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Connect at Home, At Work, On the Go Aquarium University Residence Park School Apartment Convention Center Hospital Restaurant Retail Space Office Building Sports Facility Condominium In the Car Hotel Data Center Financial Center Government Facility
- 6. $3 billion sales 13,000+employees 3,250 patents Infrastructure provider worldwide#1 #1 Radio frequency solutions for wireless networks #1 Coaxial and fiber cables for HFC networks #1 Structured cabling/connectivity and in-building wireless for enterprise networks
- 7. 7PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc 1984 1996 2000 2004 Proven Technology Leadership-Systimax First there was… SYSTIMAX® PDS (1985) High-5TM (1993) PowerSUM (1996) GigaSPEED® (1997) High Res DMD (1998) LazrSPEED® 300 (1998) GigaSPEED XL (2002) GigaSPEED X10D (2004) InstaPATCH® 360 (2005) TeraSPEED® (2003) LazrSPEED® 550 (2001) Then came… Category 3 (1991) Category 5 (1995) Category 5e (1999) Category 6 (2002) DMD Standard (2001) LOMM/OM3 (2002) Best in class….. Category 6A (2008) TIA Method B (2006) OS2 (2006) OM4 (~2009)
- 8. 8PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc 8 Supporting 75% of the top 100 global companies as ranked by Fortune Magazine /
- 9. 9PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc USA & Canada • 2 Countries • 2 Languages • 798 BusinessPartners Caribbean & Latin America • 32 Countries • 3 Languages • 235 BusinessPartners Europe, Middle East & Africa • 85 Countries • 27 Languages • 470 BusinessPartners Asia Pacific • 19 Countries • 24 languages • 402 BusinessPartners Systimax Global Focus & Coverage Manufacturing, Distribution Centers, Customer Service, Sales, Technical Support & Global Account Management in every Region $130m+ Inventory in the field 52 Languages 138 Countries 2000+ Business Partners Executive Briefing Centers 8
- 10. 10PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc 10
- 11. Accidental Architecture …stands inthe way of achieving IT objectives Complex / Inefficient Provisioning Complex / Inefficient Provisioning Compliance, Audits, Reporting…? Compliance, Audits, Reporting…? No Real-Time Asset Location Tracking No Real-Time Asset Location Tracking Cable Management Nightmares Cable Management Nightmares Physical SecurityPhysical Security Physical Infrastructure
- 12. 12PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc WHY IS THERE A DISCONNECT? Suppliers do not speak in a language that IT professionals understand… Confusion may lead to “..well it’s all just cable..it should work, right?...”
- 13. 13PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Systimax understands your operational challenges “IT runs the business – downtime is not an option” “I want to see more business value out of IT” “Our applications are the ‘face’ of our business” “It’s all about keeping the application available” “As long as my servers are up I’m OK” “We have too many underutilized servers” “Our information is our business. We need to protect our data everywhere – in transit and at rest” “I can’t keep up with the amount of storage that needs to be backed up, replicated and archived ” CxO Apps Server SecOps Storage Network “I need to provide lots of bandwidth between data centers, and make sure users can get to the apps” 13
- 14. 14PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc There is a difference- infrastructure does matter The Right Infrastructure, planned and executed well, can: • Lower lifecycle costs • Increase speed to market • Mitigate risk • Streamline operations • Reduce operational costs • ENABLE AND EMPOWER IT TO ENGAGE IN EMERGING AND DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES • Because, in the end- “it just works”
- 15. 15PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Basic infrastructure 101 Translating media (cable and wireless) systems performance into network performance
- 16. 16PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc What can slow down/ impact a network? • Active Elements – Too Many Collisions (Hub Environment) – Not Enough Memory – Software Bugs – Hard Drive Speed – Equipment Speed (CPU, switch, RAM) • Passive Elements – Cabling Infrastructure – Wireless transmission media
- 17. 17PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc How does inferior cabling or media slow down a network? • Inferior cable system causes packets being dropped/ data lost (from switch to NIC) • Retransmission of data is required, this slows down a network (downtime or “slowtime”) • Loss of productivity for employee costs company time and money $$$ – Time to troubleshoot – Time to repair – Loss of production time – Loss of market opportunity
- 18. 18PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Structured cable-Foundation of Your Network 1-51-5 YearsYears 2-52-5 YearsYears 10+10+ YearsYears LifespanLifespan Cost
- 19. 19PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc The least costly…yet most prone to problems… of total network project costsof total network project costs of network problemsof network problems are physical management relatedare physical management related Source: Cabling Business MagazineSource: Cabling Business Magazine Source: DataproSource: Datapro 7%-12%7%-12% 50%50%
- 20. 20PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Let’s discuss some basic properties of UTP, fiber optic, and wireless transmission…
- 21. 21PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Decibel or dB Represents 10-Fold Increase for Every 10 dB -60 dB = 1/1,000,000x-60 dB = 1/1,000,000x -50 dB = 1/100,000x-50 dB = 1/100,000x -40 dB = 1/10,000x-40 dB = 1/10,000x -30 dB = 1/1000x-30 dB = 1/1000x -20 dB = 1/100x-20 dB = 1/100x -10 dB = 1/10x-10 dB = 1/10x -3 dB = 1/2x-3 dB = 1/2x
- 22. 22PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Attenuation •Expressed in dB - Low Values Desired •Attenuation increases with distance •Attenuation increases with frequency •Relevant for copper, fiber, wireless TxTx RxRx SWSA2006.021A.10184
- 23. 23PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Crosstalk • Indicator of signal coupling • Crosstalk affected by cable construction and installation quality (present with UTP only) • Alien Crosstalk- applicable to Cat-6A only ConnectorConnector SWSA2006.022A.10184 TxTx RxRx
- 24. 24PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Attenuation - Crosstalk Margin FrequencyFrequency 100 MHZ100 MHZ 00 -80-80 dBdB 00 MCLA3900.027A.08014 AttenuationAttenuation CROSSTALK
- 25. 25PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Delay Skew Delay Skew between fastest & slowest pairs 470 ns470 ns 480 ns480 ns 475 ns475 ns 490 ns490 ns 4-pair4-pair ChannelChannel • Time difference between fastest and slowest pairs • Effects = Dropped packets- retransmit! • Delay skew= poor latency
- 26. 26PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Fiber Optic Attenuation • Absorption- the conversion of optical power into another energy form – Properties/imperfections of the core material • Scattering - interaction of light with density fluctuations within a fiber core – Manufacturing process/material properties
- 27. 27PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc PIM- passive intermodulation • PIM is the result of 2+ wireless signals causing interference or degraded transmission • Only 1 dB drop in uplink sensitivity because of PIM reduces coverage by 11 percent!
- 28. 28PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc To summarize: When considering media (UTP, fiber, wireless) systems, the best ELECTRICAL or OPTICAL performance (MHz) generally indicates the best NETWORK performance (Megabits)…
- 29. 29PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc PWC 2013 Top 10 Technology Trends for Business • Pervasive computing • Cyber security • Public Cloud Infrastructure • Data visualization • Gamifcation • Private Cloud • Big data mining and analysis • Digital delivery of products and services • Enterprise social networking • Simulation and scenario modeling
- 30. 30PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc PWC GLOBAL SURVEY- plans and expectations • 65% of US CEOs planned to INCREASE spending on strategic technology infrastructure or applications in the next 3 years • 45% of senior executives said they expect IT to do more in coming years to advance business priorities • Yet, only 22% of senior executives surveyed said they expect IT to contribute more to innovation
- 31. 31PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc 1-PERVASIVE COMPUTING The ability to digitally engage and interact (via your mobile device) with enabled objects all around you. Instead of the users being forced to ferret out relevant mobile apps from millions- mobile apps will surface based on situations.
- 32. 32PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Cell-Max Indoor Antennas HELIAX ½ inch AL cable Wall Organizer Cell-Max Donor Antenna HELIAX cable BTS or Node-A Repeater ION Master SM fiber ION remote Base StationBase Station Enabling PERVASIVE COMPUTING- •DAS-Providing always-on, 4-bar coverage •Carrier grade- MTBF= 400,000 hours!
- 33. 33PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Leading PIM program for customers 1. Awareness 2. Prevention 3. Identification 4. Resolution 5. Support -50 -40 -30 -20 -10 0 1850 1875 1900 1925 1950 1975 2000 Limit:-18.0 M1 DRUMSSWEEPSNEWLINES 048-X1-LOAD Model:S251C Serial#:00203073 Date:05/17/2002 Time:14:29:29 BiasTee:OFF OutputPower:6.00dBm Resolution: 259 CAL:ON(COAX) CW:OFF dB Frequency(1840.0-2000.0MHz) M1:-25.85dB@1991.32MHz What do you need to be aware of with DAS?: Passive intermodulation!
- 34. 34PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc 2- CYBER SECURITY Expect continued wide scale attacks companies, nations, groups, and continued debate about defense methods and tactics “We get every single day a whole series of levels of types of attacks, everything from criminals trying to get into your bank account or stealing your identity to nation states like China investing billions hiring thousands”- Rep Mike Rogers, Chair of House Intelligence Committee- Feb 24, 2013
- 35. 35PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc 35 Defending against CYBER THREATS- IM VISION Work Orders planned & issued from application Work Orders planned & issued from application Instructions are sent to patching location Instructions are sent to patching location
- 36. 36PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc 36 Incident Detection-IMVISION Technician disconnects channel in error Technician disconnects channel in error Disconnect detected by Rack Manager Disconnect detected by Rack Manager Local visual or audible alarm, update to RTIM Server Local visual or audible alarm, update to RTIM Server Database logs event, updates connectivity Database logs event, updates connectivity Alarm options inc. e-mail, SMS, SNMP, SysLog Alarm options inc. e-mail, SMS, SNMP, SysLog
- 37. 37PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc 3-BIG DATA MINING AND ANALYSIS • Dizzying amounts of data- faster and cheaper • Advanced analytics to cull and leverage data from inside and outside the organization, organizations will seek more scientists to harvest and harness big data
- 38. 38PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc BIG DATA is usually crunched in a DATA CENTER- critical infrastructure links everything together Access Layer Aggregation Layer Core Layer
- 39. 39PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Enabling BIG DATA- SYSTIMAX TeraSPEED Solution O LE S C 1300 1350 1400 1450 1500 1550 1600 Wavelength (nm) 0 0.3 0.6 0.9 1.2 1250 Los s (dB/km) Conventional Fiber Loss* TeraSPEED Loss* SONET, Ethernet, 1300 nm VCSELs CWDM Business Access DWDM 2.5 Gb/s SONET, IP CATV *In loose tube cable. • Zero Water Peak (ZWP) Eliminates high loss • Opens E-band channel capacity with 5 more CWDM channels Applications
- 40. 40PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Channel length distributions from IEEE 802.3ba flatman_01_0108 85% OM3 94% InstaPATCH 360 with LazrSPEED 550 Addresses 94% of links at 140m Enabling BIG DATA- CommScope Differentiation – 40G / 100G fiber • LazrSPEED 550 & InstaPATCH 360 – Guaranteed 170m Support! – Standards are 100m – 140M supports 94% of Distribution- Core channels (with 6 MPOs) • Recent 40G/100G Industry Interoperability Testing – Mix of LS300 & LS550 • 100G: 270m with BER = 0 • 40G: 500m with BER = 0 Addresses 85% of links at 100m InstaPATCH 360 with LazrSPEED 300 Percentages indicate (6) MPO connection 40/100GbE channels
- 41. 41PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc 4- PRIVATE CLOUD • Enterprises are requiring more of their IT organizations to deliver high quality services that: – enable their business to grow on demand – to decrease their time-to-market – utilize the most cost effective technologies
- 42. 42PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Building the PRIVATE CLOUD: Pre-term solutions from Systimax: InstaPATCH QUATTRO • Easy to Design, Configure, Order, and Deploy • Minimizes Install Time & Risk • Flexible modular design • Cost-effective • Copper equivalent of MPO-based fiber connectivity • Built on industry leading GigaSPEED X10D Solution • 100% Tested & Certified • Intelligence-Ready and Enabled
- 43. 43PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Systimax Pre-term solutions are the building blocks of a PRIVATE CLOUD: • Designed for build as-you-grow • Enable rapid deployment • Faster time to market • Cost-effective
- 44. 44PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc 5- DIGITAL DELIVERY OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES • Customers are driving companies of all shapes and sizes to develop new, technology-based ways of delivering value • This model can open tremendous pathways for growth, but organizations must shift underlying business operations to support this new business model….24 x7…365 days a year….
- 45. 45PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Enabling DIGITAL DELIVERY- Systimax iron clad warranty We guarantee performance for 20 years We provide additional headroom above the industry standards If it doesn’t work- we fix it- immediately- and cover new product, labor, testing You can’t allow downtime- you need infrastructure that just works
- 46. 46PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc 6- PUBLIC CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE • Desire for reduction in the management complexity of hybrid cloud architecture will lead to demand for service intelligence capabilities in the short term… • In addition some highly visible public cloud lapses in 2012 will likely lead to beefing up of risk mitigation processes and selecting vendors with more: – enterprise-grade security, – service levels, – and indemnification clauses…
- 47. 47PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Service intelligent capabilities: ImVision provisioning for the PUBLIC CLOUD Cabinet Selection Cabinet Selection Weight Power RU space Weight Power RU space Weight Power RU space Cabinet AA1 Cabinet AA3Cabinet AA2 Define Network interfaces Define Network interfaces Define power size & weight requirements Define power size & weight requirements Define Required Services Define Required Services Auto-define cable routing based on required services Auto-define cable routing based on required services Generate e-service ticket Generate e-service ticket Monitor completion of e-service ticket Monitor completion of e-service ticket
- 48. 48PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc 7- DATA VISUALIZATION • In our digital world, a picture is worth much more than a thousand words. Leading edge companies will explore dynamic visualization technologies and advanced display devices to navigate through multiple dimensions of data….
- 49. 49PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc DATA VISUALIZATION computed in data centers- driving the need for 10G • Typical usage rate of stand-alone servers is only around 20% • Virtualization allows multiple applications to run on the same server PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2950 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 ® PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 ® PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 ® PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2950 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 ® PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 ® PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 ® PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 95 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2950 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 ® PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 ® PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 ® PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2950 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 ® PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 ® PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 ® PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 PowerEdge 2 9 5 0 • VMotion allows migration of Virtual Machines across different servers • High speed, low latency links required • Uplink must be able to handle increased traffic load => 10G cabling required!
- 50. 50PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc • 91B Cable- 6A UTP – 7.24mm (0.285”) O.D. – Lightweight and Flexible – First 10G UTP in a Box – First to mitigate A-NEXT – First to market- and 50% market share in data centers GigaSPEED X10D UTP- the backbone of HIGH SPEED, LOW LATENCY links The anti-snag feature with LEVERAGE: Protection and Ease FLEXIBLE cordage
- 51. 51PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Bringing it all together- SYSTIMAX LABS •Connector field modeling •Cable twist accuracy technology •Modal decomposition modeling
- 52. 52PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc There is a difference- infrastructure does matter The Right Infrastructure, planned and executed well, can: • Lower lifecycle costs • Increase speed to market • Mitigate risk • Streamline operations • Reduce operational costs
- 53. 53PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc CommScope SYSTIMAX is a technology and market leader whose solutions and programs ENABLE and EMPOWER our customers to engage in emerging and disruptive technologies, for the betterment of their business Because, in the end, with SYSTIMAX: “It just works”
- 54. When you’re readyto deploy… Choose… Innovation Performance Assurance
- 55. 55PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Questions?
- 56. 56PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL© 2011 CommScope, Inc Thank You
Editor's Notes
- #4 Slide 2 And as you can see here, the world wants to communicate. We are in the early stages of an unprecedented push for bandwidth – a true technology wave. In 2009, YouTube required 24 terabytes of new storage each week. By 2012, internet traffic will more than double to 44 exabytes per month. By 2013, bandwidth demand will have grown by 500%. By 2014, mobile broadband subscribers will total 2.5 billion. And in 2020, we will have 50 billion sensors attached to the internet to monitor energy consumption and traffic.
- #5 Slide 3 The world is changing. Technology is revolutionizing almost every aspect of our lives. New applications are changing the way we live, work, play and learn. Behind the technology revolution, you’ll find networks and behind the networks, you’ll find people. People wanting to connect and communicate.
- #6 Slide 4 People wanting to connect and communicate where, when, and how they choose. With no restrictions and with consistent levels and quality of service. Whether at home, at work, or on the go.
- #7 CommScope gives its customers around the world the power to help their customers connect and communicate where, when and how they choose. CommScope is a world leader in infrastructure solutions for communications networks. We enable a host of information-rich and interactive services to be delivered to your computer, TV and mobile device, whether you are at home, at the office, or on the go. So what does this mean? Well ‘at home’ our last mile technologies brings the broadband world to customers doors. As experts in that field, CommScope provides customers the leading cable solutions and environmentally secure enclosures for broadband networks. “At the office” we help business enterprises transform the way they operate by providing some of the industry’s highest performing network infrastructure solutions for video, voice, data and intelligent building management applications. We deliver a complete end to end physical layer solution including cables and connectivity, enclosures, intelligent software and network design services. “On the go” today everyone is on the go, constantly in transit to work or out and about. All the time we want to be connected to family friends and colleagues no matter where we go. And Andrew corporation who we acquired at the end of last year is the premier supplier of end to end radio frequency solutions. They provide a full portfolio of products that make wireless connectivity possible virtually anywhere anytime.
- #12 Organizations have gone from managing a limited number of electronic assets to managing a growing and complex array of networked assets servers, switches, routers, desktop PCs, wireless access points, IP phones, video surveillance cameras, and so on. And keeping track of all of the interconnections from the data center to these end points has become a colossal headache. Yes, there are cabling databases, but they rely on manual input for every move, add or change. So the reality is that these solutions quickly fall behind the workflow and remain out-of-date. What your customers therefore have today are environments where hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of components and services are connected in an ad-hoc fashion. This ‘accidental architecture’ has become hard to manage and a huge operational drain. It puts businesses at risk of making errors based on guesswork and lack of patch cord visibility and real-time documentation. The physical layer of IT infrastructure is in desperate need of a better, more intelligent management solution; a solution that adds new agility, scalability, and resiliency to the work of network administrators and cabling technicians. CommScope has such a physical layer management solutionSYSTIMAX iPatch. We’d like to introduce you to a huge market opportunity for new product and managed services revenue.
- #14 Customers want to deploy Data Center wide architectures. Depending on the IT team we are speaking with we will gather different requirements, we have an opportunity to talk on all of the different levels because of our strategic position and the fact that we touch all of the different components in the Data Center with the breadth of our product portfolio. Likewise we have the challenge of being able talk the same language of all the different groups and stakeholders and address their challenges. Its up to all of us to start to build the relationships with all of these different technology groups. Our advantage is that we are in the unique position to be able to bring it all together. CXO Concerns: I need to take a long term view for where I want our data center infrastructure to be in 5 years. We can’t go on building out our infrastructure with discrete silos of disparate infrastructure “Need to Control Operations and Capex Costs. The data center’s current infrastructure deployment and operations model is not economically sustainable.” Application Related Issues: Not all applications are created equal. Underlying infrastructure needs to address the requirements of strategic applications and deliver right service levels and prioritization for them. Need to Better Support the Business. IT is not keeping up with the changing demands of the business. We need to be an enabler for business agility not an obstacle. I’m looking at an SOA strategy. Compliance and Regulations Need to address Regulatory Issues and Need to Enable Business Resilience. Need to implement an infrastructure that can protect and recover applications, communications and information – as well as provide uninterrupted access. Storage Applications and storage/data infrastructure must deliver the desired Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). RTO determines how long it takes for a certain application to recover and RPO determines to which point (in backup/data) the application can recover. These objectives also outline the requirements for disaster recovery and business continuity. If these needs aren’t met in a deterministic fashion, an enterprise carries a lot of risk in terms of its inability to deliver on the desired service level agreements (SLA). Network Need to Have Short term Wins as well as take a Long Term View – What Do I want our IT infrastructure and Data Center to look Like in 5 Years and how are we going to get there? Customers are realizing that they have trouble incorporating new advanced technologies into their data center architectures that are somehow glued together. Hence they are asking their services vendors to help them deploy best practices architectures. Enterprises also realize that an agile infrastructure that easily incorporates new technologies can often serve as a competitive edge. Selling into the Data Center will involve multiple stake holders, who all have different agendas and priorities. The traditional network contacts may get you in, but they may not be able to impact the decisions that ultimately determine how the network evolves. The organization may be run in silos, where each has their own budget and power base. The customer may need to take a long term view of where they want the data center infrastructure to be in 5 years. They can’t go on building out the infrastructure with discrete silos of disparate infrastructure “Need to Control Operations and Capex Costs. The data center’s current infrastructure deployment and operations model is not economically sustainable.” Applications and storage/data infrastructure must deliver the desired Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). RTO determines how long it takes for a certain application to recover and RPO determines to which point (in backup/data) the application can recover. These objectives also outline the requirements for disaster recovery and business continuity. If these needs aren’t met in a deterministic fashion, an enterprise carries a lot of risk in terms of its inability to deliver on the desired service level agreements (SLA). “Need to Better Support the Business. IT is not keeping up with the changing demands of the business. We need to be an enabler for business agility not an obstacle. I’m looking at an SOA strategy” “Need to address Regulatory Issues and Need to Enable Business Resilience. Need to implement an infrastructure that can protect and recover applications, communications and information – as well as provide uninterrupted access” “Need to Have Short term Wins as well as take a Long Term View – “What Do I want our IT infrastructure and Data Center to look Like in 5 Years and how are we going to get there?
- #19 The OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model was developed by the ISO (International Standards Organization) to provide a network design framework to allow equipment from different vendors to be able to communicate with each other. Although this model is complicated, it provides a useful framework for visualizing the communications process. Layers 7 through 4 deal with end to end communications, while layers 3 through 1 deal with network access. In other words, layers 1 through 3 focus on data transmission and routing, layers 5 through 7 focus on user applications, and layer 4 provides an interface between the first three and the last three layers. Each layer in the model builds upon the one below it. Simply put, for the user to successfully run the required application, everything must function properly in the preceding layers. So why is this important? As the IS group you are ultimately responsible for providing your users with the applications they require to make your organization successful. Most of your time and money is probably spent at the upper layers of the model. Additionally, the products (software & hardware) associated with the upper layers typically have the shortest life span. As mentioned, each layer is dependent on the one below it, thus the physical layer becomes the foundation of your network. The physical layer is the least expensive part of your network, lasts the longest, determines how well the other layers will work together and yet it is often overlooked in the overall scope of your network. Installing the best cabling infrastructure for your current and future applications assures you that the other layers will not be impeded by the cabling system and that your users can successfully run their applications.
- #20 Again, the structured cabling system is the least expensive part of your network investment. Industry sources estimate the structured cabling system represents 5% to 8% of your network project cost, yet the physical layer represents 50% of all network problems. Skimping on the SCS will cost your organization substantially more in productivity loss and troubleshooting than the money saved by installing a low cost SCS in the long run.
- #22 Decibel or dB Decibels are logarithmic. Decibels are always negative, so the minus (-) sign is assumed. 60 dB is equal to 1/1,000,000 of the strength of the original signal.
- #23 Attenuation A signal loses power (strength) as it travels down media. The signal is strongest at the transmit end (Tx) and is weaker at the receive end (Rx). A lower dB value for attenuation is desired. It means you are experiencing less signal loss.
- #24 Near-End Crosstalk (NEXT) Happens at the "near end"- which can be defined as the first 40-50 feet from the where the signal originated Connectors and the area around them are very susceptible to NEXT Strong energy field (signal) from the transmit pair couples onto the attenuated (weaker) signal on the receive pair Good comparison is hearing someone else's conversation while on the phone
- #25 Attenuation A graphical look at attenuation Gets worse as frequency increases
- #26 Delay Skew: The delay skew measurement is the amount of difference between the fastest and slowest pairs when the data is transmitted. Is measured with the information from the propagation delay measurements. Not only does the data need to be received within a certain amount of time. The data must all get there together. Because the data is sent over all 4 pairs at the same time, it must arrive at the same time or within a tolerable difference. The TIA test requires the data to arrive within 45Ns of difference.
- #39 If any customers prefer using the emerging Fabric architecture as shown here, the same strategy is applicable here as well. Data center Fabric in short is a sort of mesh interconnect network as illustrated between aggregation layer and core layer. Fabric network allows not necessarily low latency but predictable latency, which is critical for converged network purpose. Fabric doesn’t only handle east-west traffic well but also handle any to any traffic well. What’s driving Fabric architecture? Again it is server virtualization. Virtual machines sometimes need to be moved from any physical host to any host in the data center without limitations. The need of Virtual Machine mobility from any to any drives fabric architecture.
- #40 Here we see that TeraSPEED removes the water peak leaving the fibre open for operation around the 1400 window or E band. This gives 60% more useable wavelengths
- #41 CommScope’s differentiation starts with the combination of extended distances that Systimax LS550 and InstaPATCH 360 low-loss components provide above the standard. It also identifies that it can support nearly all of the most flexible and reconfigurable environments that exist, with 6 MPO connections if required. Recent industry interoperability testing revealed extended distances beyond our design guidelines with a Bit Error Ratio = 0. CommScope’s contribution to the standards bodies includes a suggestion for a dual row MPO connector that allows for existing 12f trunk cables to seamlessly combine as a single 100G channel. There is no doubt that the advantages found in InstaPATCH 360 structured cabling system provide a clear and effective upgrade path.
- #44 Some examples of InstaPATCH preterminted copper installed. It looks like something installed by an expert business partner, who carefully crafts every cord individually. In fact, our partners are using this solution as it takes a lot of the project risk off the table. There are few surprises about installation time when the product enters the data center already built and factory tested.
- #50 To support virtualized servers you need bigger pipes to both: Access multiple applications on a single server Move applications between servers quickly for backup/redundancy/failover.
- #52 Reprise analogy – encrypt the language and add sheetrock “dialectric”