This document summarizes CommScope's capabilities in providing network infrastructure solutions for various branches of the US government, including civilian agencies, the intelligence community, and the Department of Defense. It highlights some of CommScope's past projects, such as providing cabling infrastructure for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency East campus. It also describes CommScope's specialized Federal Solutions Team and some key solutions it offers, such as modular data centers, building intelligence platforms, and data center infrastructure management.
Stimulus grants awarded under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) encourage the development of broadband networks that create jobs; spur investments in technology and infrastructure; and deliver long-term economic benefits. These projects are under tight timeframes to put stimulus money to use immediately; and often the pressure of designing, building and reporting progress makes comprehensive network data management a lesser project priority.
However, data accessibility by network operators and subscribing providers is vital to efficient network completion and maintenance and successful business development. Maine Fiber Company, Inc., realized this when it began constructing a 1,100-mile, high capacity fiber optic network to extend middle-mile connectivity across the state of Maine. Using its Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) federal stimulus grant and private investments, it began building this network from scratch, tracking the network with legacy data formats such as internet maps, CAD and paper files to model cable routes. It soon realized the need for network information management technology that would support cost-efficient construction and maintenance of its expansive and dispersed network area.
The company found that centralizing asset and network data as a single geodatabase, using ArcFM™ Fiber Manager, streamlines network data availability across the enterprise. This solution eliminates the time and costs of maintaining multiple databases and provides the segment length and cost accuracy critical to its business model. Flexibility enables the solution to grow with the company, and cross-departmental data sharing supports efficient circuit planning, analysis and reporting. This advanced enterprise GIS technology supports decision making across the organization that not only streamlines the broadband business startup but also makes long-term management efficient and accurate.
This paper describes a service-oriented architecture for data acquisition and control leveraging some of the latest concepts in software engineering. By addressing the business requirements to support role-based applications
and services, the platform removes the “islands of automation” issue and allows a vertical decomposition of the application stack to lower the barrier to entry for new applications
A surprising number of communications companies still document their network in disparate proprietary systems like CAD. This makes it difficult to obtain information needed to make decisions fast and stay competitive. This paper demonstrates how an enterprise Geographic Information System (GIS)–based system is a better approach by enabling a centralized data store; multiple simultaneous editors; flexibility and configurability; standard customization environments; open integration framework; desktop, Web, mobile and cloud deployment options; and rich data interoperability.
Mike McBride will provide a look at the Industrial IoT (IIoT) landscape and the OT/IT convergence. He will cover several use cases including healthcare, entertainment and smart buildings. He will cover the challenges IIoT networking faces with emerging technologies and how edge computing will provide increased performance, security and reliability. Mike will discuss the various Edge Computing standards & opensource forums along with proposed architectures. And Mike will present new solutions being proposed (ICN, slicing, Blockchain) to support the bandwidth, latency and security requirements within Industrial verticals.
About the speaker: As Sr. Director of Innovation & Strategy, within Huawei's IP Network BU, Mike leads Industrial IoT, Edge Computing and IP/SDN architecture, standardization, and strategy across product lines and industry forums. He leads architecture and standardization activities within the IIc and BBF and has served as an IETF Working Group chair for 15 years. Mike has led emerging technology projects within opensource communities and played a key role in the formation of OPEN-O (Now ONAP). He is an Ericsson alum where he developed and directed SDN/NFV network architectures. And for many years with Cisco, Mike supported customers, worked in development teams and managed mobility, wireless and video projects across BUs. Mike began his career supporting customers at Apple Computer. He resides in Orange County, CA
Healthcare Infrastructure Solutions that Deliver Dramatic SavingsMestizo Enterprises
Shrinking Budgets, Consolidation, and the incessant demand for more functionality, more services, more integration at lower cost is harming healthcare operations. Decision Makers are at a loss when faced with technical decisions that force them to spend money on cable plants, network switches, telco closet expansions to meet "today's standards", and more and more energy consumption. Sandia National LABS cut more than 1 Million Kilowatt hours and is predicting a savings of 20 Million Dollars over the next 5 years alone and they spent less money on upgrades than ever before.
Stimulus grants awarded under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) encourage the development of broadband networks that create jobs; spur investments in technology and infrastructure; and deliver long-term economic benefits. These projects are under tight timeframes to put stimulus money to use immediately; and often the pressure of designing, building and reporting progress makes comprehensive network data management a lesser project priority.
However, data accessibility by network operators and subscribing providers is vital to efficient network completion and maintenance and successful business development. Maine Fiber Company, Inc., realized this when it began constructing a 1,100-mile, high capacity fiber optic network to extend middle-mile connectivity across the state of Maine. Using its Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) federal stimulus grant and private investments, it began building this network from scratch, tracking the network with legacy data formats such as internet maps, CAD and paper files to model cable routes. It soon realized the need for network information management technology that would support cost-efficient construction and maintenance of its expansive and dispersed network area.
The company found that centralizing asset and network data as a single geodatabase, using ArcFM™ Fiber Manager, streamlines network data availability across the enterprise. This solution eliminates the time and costs of maintaining multiple databases and provides the segment length and cost accuracy critical to its business model. Flexibility enables the solution to grow with the company, and cross-departmental data sharing supports efficient circuit planning, analysis and reporting. This advanced enterprise GIS technology supports decision making across the organization that not only streamlines the broadband business startup but also makes long-term management efficient and accurate.
This paper describes a service-oriented architecture for data acquisition and control leveraging some of the latest concepts in software engineering. By addressing the business requirements to support role-based applications
and services, the platform removes the “islands of automation” issue and allows a vertical decomposition of the application stack to lower the barrier to entry for new applications
A surprising number of communications companies still document their network in disparate proprietary systems like CAD. This makes it difficult to obtain information needed to make decisions fast and stay competitive. This paper demonstrates how an enterprise Geographic Information System (GIS)–based system is a better approach by enabling a centralized data store; multiple simultaneous editors; flexibility and configurability; standard customization environments; open integration framework; desktop, Web, mobile and cloud deployment options; and rich data interoperability.
Mike McBride will provide a look at the Industrial IoT (IIoT) landscape and the OT/IT convergence. He will cover several use cases including healthcare, entertainment and smart buildings. He will cover the challenges IIoT networking faces with emerging technologies and how edge computing will provide increased performance, security and reliability. Mike will discuss the various Edge Computing standards & opensource forums along with proposed architectures. And Mike will present new solutions being proposed (ICN, slicing, Blockchain) to support the bandwidth, latency and security requirements within Industrial verticals.
About the speaker: As Sr. Director of Innovation & Strategy, within Huawei's IP Network BU, Mike leads Industrial IoT, Edge Computing and IP/SDN architecture, standardization, and strategy across product lines and industry forums. He leads architecture and standardization activities within the IIc and BBF and has served as an IETF Working Group chair for 15 years. Mike has led emerging technology projects within opensource communities and played a key role in the formation of OPEN-O (Now ONAP). He is an Ericsson alum where he developed and directed SDN/NFV network architectures. And for many years with Cisco, Mike supported customers, worked in development teams and managed mobility, wireless and video projects across BUs. Mike began his career supporting customers at Apple Computer. He resides in Orange County, CA
Healthcare Infrastructure Solutions that Deliver Dramatic SavingsMestizo Enterprises
Shrinking Budgets, Consolidation, and the incessant demand for more functionality, more services, more integration at lower cost is harming healthcare operations. Decision Makers are at a loss when faced with technical decisions that force them to spend money on cable plants, network switches, telco closet expansions to meet "today's standards", and more and more energy consumption. Sandia National LABS cut more than 1 Million Kilowatt hours and is predicting a savings of 20 Million Dollars over the next 5 years alone and they spent less money on upgrades than ever before.
While mobile data gave way to the digital service economy
that fueled the growth of the public cloud, 5G and the Internet
of Things (IOT) promises to unleash a similar disruption at
the edge.
OpenNESS offers cloud and IOT developers an easy-to-use reference software toolkit to create and deploy applications at the on-premise and network edge locations. By simplifying
complex networking technology, OpenNESS exposes standards-based APIs from 3GPP and ETSI to application
developers. Within the toolkit, applications can steer data traffic
intended for the edge at 5G latencies and provide connectors to analytics and cloud service provider frameworks. With
this open source toolkit, application developers can port applications created for the cloud to the edge, and run the
applications at any edge location.
Industrial Cybersecurity: Practical Tips for IT & OT CollaborationTripwire
How can IT and OT teams work together effectively to secure the entire infrastructure? We asked industry experts for their top tips. Read their full responses here: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/ics-security/it-collaborate-ics-security/
The digital transformation underway is accelerating, enabling new business opportunities both for telecom operators and for enterprises from other industries. The main drivers are the need for increased efficiency, flexibility and new business models enabled by the introduction of 5G and increased adoption of cloud technologies. New services can be expected to be deployed at an unprecedented pace.
6G: Potential Use Cases and Enabling Technologies3G4G
This white paper presents an overview of some of the promising applications and use case envisioned for 6G, with the objective to highlight the potential for new markets and to provide an indication of the expected technical requirements. The white paper then describes some of the enabling technologies for meeting the performance requirements of 6G.
Authors: Ritvik Gupta, Student (A-Levels), Sutton Grammar School, London, United Kingdom under the supervision of Dr Biplab Sidkar, Associate Professor , Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore
Modeling the Grid for De-Centralized EnergyTon De Vries
Utilities are facing massive changes that affect all aspects of their business, from planning through operations. Once an industry characterized as technology-risk averse, utilities have been shifting to more agile approaches with a higher tolerance for risk. Modeling the grid to accommodate these changes requires new approaches and closer relationships with trusted
technology partners. This paper will examine what methodologies have driven the acceleration of grid decentralization and what technologies still need to be applied for smooth integration and success.
http://www.ericsson.com
Imagine what you could do with a full multi-access data management solution that can also provide you a 360 degrees view of your user’s data assets - all in just one “box”?
Bhadale group of companies telecom industry products catalogueVijayananda Mohire
This is our first version of product offering for the Telecom sector. We offer Intelligent resource management and mobile ambient intelligent agent system for easy and richer user experience while transferring from once cell to another
[Case Study] Stedin (The Netherlands) - Underground Self-Healing NetworkSchneider Electric
Stedin wanted to upgrade its infrastructure to better serve its customers and reduce both the frequency and duration of potential power outages. Schneider Electric offered the Dutch utility a cost-effective, automated solution to quickly re-energise its MV network in case of a fault, identifying the fault location and reconnecting the maximum number of consumers and businesses within 1 minute.
Presentation from the EPRI-Sandia Symposium on Secure and Resilient Microgrids: Microgrid Design Toolkit, presented by John Eddy, Sandia National Laboratories, Baltimore, MD, August 29-31, 2016.
ENERGY EFFICIENT COMPUTING FOR SMART PHONES IN CLOUD ASSISTED ENVIRONMENTIJCNCJournal
In recent years, the employment of smart mobile phones has increased enormously and are concerned as an area of human life. Smartphones are capable to support immense range of complicated and intensive applications results shortened power capability and fewer performance. Mobile cloud computing is the newly rising paradigm integrates the features of cloud computing and mobile computing to beat the constraints of mobile devices. Mobile cloud computing employs computational offloading that migrates the computations from mobile devices to remote servers. In this paper, a novel model is proposed for dynamic task offloading to attain the energy optimization and better performance for mobile applications in the cloud environment. The paper proposed an optimum offloading algorithm by introducing new criteria such as benchmarking for offloading decision making. It also supports the concept of partitioning to divide the computing problem into various sub-problems. These sub-problems can be executed parallelly on mobile device and cloud. Performance evaluation results proved that the proposed model can reduce around 20% to 53% energy for low complexity problems and up to 98% for high complexity problems.
For many companies, Cyber Security is achieved solely through the application of technological solutions to software and hardware challenges. Schneider-Electric takes a more holistic approach with a program built around complete product lifecycles and encompassing safety, maintenance and security. Discover Schneider-Electric's cyber security vision, from understanding how secure functionality is engineered into products through the tools and support available to manage updates and patches, plus specific procedures for handling potential vulnerabilities. A software and hardware ecosystem is only as strong as its weakest component, and Schneider-Electric is working to strengthen this through StruXureware and the evolution of platforms.
A WIRELESS NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECTURE FOR RURAL COMMUNITIESijcsit
Wireless network implementation is a viable option for building network infrastructure in rural communities. Rural people lack network infrastructures for information services and socio-economic development. The aim of this study was to develop a wireless network infrastructure architecture for network services to rural dwellers. A user-centered approach was applied in the study and a wireless network infrastructure was designed and deployed to cover five rural locations. Data was collected and
analyzed to assess the performance of the network facilities. The results shows that the system had been performing adequately without any downtime with an average of 200 users per month and the quality of service has remained high. The transmit/receive rate of 300Mbps was thrice as fast as the normal Ethernet transmit/receive specification with an average throughput of 1 Mbps. The multiple output/multiple input
(MIMO) point-to-multipoint network design increased the network throughput and the quality of service experienced by the users.
RTI recently introduced RTI Connext, a new family of products designed to connect real-time applications across an enterprise. Linking systems on the operational edge with mission-critical IT applications, RTI Connext provides seamless, enterprise-wide integration to improve efficiency, responsiveness and real-time business intelligence (BI).
In this video, Curt Schacker, Chief Commercial Officer of RTI, takes you through the announcement, why it’s significant to a variety of industries and application areas. In addition, he discusses a recent customer use case: Siemens Wind Power.
The News – Feb 14, 2012:
RTI Introduces RTI Connext for Enterprise-Wide Integration, From the Operational Edge to the Enterprise Data Center
New Corporate Strategy Extends Leadership in Aerospace and Defense to Commercial Industries, Improving Operational Efficiency for the Business Enterprise
● Real-time enterprise service bus (ESB) delivers ultra high performance and scalability
● Integrates and aligns IT and operational technology (OT) across the business
● RTI announces new customer: Siemens Wind Power
Leveraging Cloud-based Building Management Systems for Multi-site FacilitiesSchneider Electric
Until recently, enterprise building management of
multiple, distributed facilities has been beyond the
budget of most organizations. New advances in Cloud
technology are now enabling enterprises to centrally
monitor, control and manage their medium and smaller
sized facilities at an affordable cost. The benefits of the
cloud facility management approach have helped to
create more productive environments for workers and
customers and also facilitated better executive
decision-making at the corporate level.
eBook: Guide to Data Center Cabling Infrastructure
In This Free 36-page eBook:
*10 Gb/s Data Center Solutions
*Best Practices for Data Center Infrastructure Design
*Comparing Copper and Fiber Options in the Data Center
*The Hidden Costs of 10 Gb/s UTP Systems
*Light it Up: Fiber *Transmissions and Applications
*Cabling Infrastructure and Green Building Initiatives
About the Author:
Carrie Higbie has been involved in the computing and networking for 25+ years in executive and consultant roles. She is Siemon’s Global Network Applications Manager supporting end-users and active electronics manufacturers. She publishes columns and speaks at industry events globally. Carrie is an expert on TechTarget’s SearchNetworking, SearchVoIP, and SearchDataCenters and authors columns for these and SearchCIO and SearchMobile forums and is on the board of advisors. She is on the BOD and former President of the BladeSystems Alliance. She participates in IEEE, the Ethernet Alliance and IDC Enterprise Expert Panels. She has one telecommunications patent and one pending.
At Schneider Electric, in the IT Division, our core business has always been focused on delivering the highest level of availability to critical technologies, systems and processes. We’ve done this through our award winning, industry-leading and highest quality products and solutions, including UPS, Cooling, Rack Systems, DCIM and Services.
In this new digital era, we see a world that is always-on.
Always on to meet the needs of the highest notion of “access” to goods and services
Always on to be the solid, reliable foundation of digital transformation for businesses
Our mission is: To empower the digital transformation of our customers by ensuring their critical network, systems and processes are highly available and resilient.
While mobile data gave way to the digital service economy
that fueled the growth of the public cloud, 5G and the Internet
of Things (IOT) promises to unleash a similar disruption at
the edge.
OpenNESS offers cloud and IOT developers an easy-to-use reference software toolkit to create and deploy applications at the on-premise and network edge locations. By simplifying
complex networking technology, OpenNESS exposes standards-based APIs from 3GPP and ETSI to application
developers. Within the toolkit, applications can steer data traffic
intended for the edge at 5G latencies and provide connectors to analytics and cloud service provider frameworks. With
this open source toolkit, application developers can port applications created for the cloud to the edge, and run the
applications at any edge location.
Industrial Cybersecurity: Practical Tips for IT & OT CollaborationTripwire
How can IT and OT teams work together effectively to secure the entire infrastructure? We asked industry experts for their top tips. Read their full responses here: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/ics-security/it-collaborate-ics-security/
The digital transformation underway is accelerating, enabling new business opportunities both for telecom operators and for enterprises from other industries. The main drivers are the need for increased efficiency, flexibility and new business models enabled by the introduction of 5G and increased adoption of cloud technologies. New services can be expected to be deployed at an unprecedented pace.
6G: Potential Use Cases and Enabling Technologies3G4G
This white paper presents an overview of some of the promising applications and use case envisioned for 6G, with the objective to highlight the potential for new markets and to provide an indication of the expected technical requirements. The white paper then describes some of the enabling technologies for meeting the performance requirements of 6G.
Authors: Ritvik Gupta, Student (A-Levels), Sutton Grammar School, London, United Kingdom under the supervision of Dr Biplab Sidkar, Associate Professor , Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore
Modeling the Grid for De-Centralized EnergyTon De Vries
Utilities are facing massive changes that affect all aspects of their business, from planning through operations. Once an industry characterized as technology-risk averse, utilities have been shifting to more agile approaches with a higher tolerance for risk. Modeling the grid to accommodate these changes requires new approaches and closer relationships with trusted
technology partners. This paper will examine what methodologies have driven the acceleration of grid decentralization and what technologies still need to be applied for smooth integration and success.
http://www.ericsson.com
Imagine what you could do with a full multi-access data management solution that can also provide you a 360 degrees view of your user’s data assets - all in just one “box”?
Bhadale group of companies telecom industry products catalogueVijayananda Mohire
This is our first version of product offering for the Telecom sector. We offer Intelligent resource management and mobile ambient intelligent agent system for easy and richer user experience while transferring from once cell to another
[Case Study] Stedin (The Netherlands) - Underground Self-Healing NetworkSchneider Electric
Stedin wanted to upgrade its infrastructure to better serve its customers and reduce both the frequency and duration of potential power outages. Schneider Electric offered the Dutch utility a cost-effective, automated solution to quickly re-energise its MV network in case of a fault, identifying the fault location and reconnecting the maximum number of consumers and businesses within 1 minute.
Presentation from the EPRI-Sandia Symposium on Secure and Resilient Microgrids: Microgrid Design Toolkit, presented by John Eddy, Sandia National Laboratories, Baltimore, MD, August 29-31, 2016.
ENERGY EFFICIENT COMPUTING FOR SMART PHONES IN CLOUD ASSISTED ENVIRONMENTIJCNCJournal
In recent years, the employment of smart mobile phones has increased enormously and are concerned as an area of human life. Smartphones are capable to support immense range of complicated and intensive applications results shortened power capability and fewer performance. Mobile cloud computing is the newly rising paradigm integrates the features of cloud computing and mobile computing to beat the constraints of mobile devices. Mobile cloud computing employs computational offloading that migrates the computations from mobile devices to remote servers. In this paper, a novel model is proposed for dynamic task offloading to attain the energy optimization and better performance for mobile applications in the cloud environment. The paper proposed an optimum offloading algorithm by introducing new criteria such as benchmarking for offloading decision making. It also supports the concept of partitioning to divide the computing problem into various sub-problems. These sub-problems can be executed parallelly on mobile device and cloud. Performance evaluation results proved that the proposed model can reduce around 20% to 53% energy for low complexity problems and up to 98% for high complexity problems.
For many companies, Cyber Security is achieved solely through the application of technological solutions to software and hardware challenges. Schneider-Electric takes a more holistic approach with a program built around complete product lifecycles and encompassing safety, maintenance and security. Discover Schneider-Electric's cyber security vision, from understanding how secure functionality is engineered into products through the tools and support available to manage updates and patches, plus specific procedures for handling potential vulnerabilities. A software and hardware ecosystem is only as strong as its weakest component, and Schneider-Electric is working to strengthen this through StruXureware and the evolution of platforms.
A WIRELESS NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECTURE FOR RURAL COMMUNITIESijcsit
Wireless network implementation is a viable option for building network infrastructure in rural communities. Rural people lack network infrastructures for information services and socio-economic development. The aim of this study was to develop a wireless network infrastructure architecture for network services to rural dwellers. A user-centered approach was applied in the study and a wireless network infrastructure was designed and deployed to cover five rural locations. Data was collected and
analyzed to assess the performance of the network facilities. The results shows that the system had been performing adequately without any downtime with an average of 200 users per month and the quality of service has remained high. The transmit/receive rate of 300Mbps was thrice as fast as the normal Ethernet transmit/receive specification with an average throughput of 1 Mbps. The multiple output/multiple input
(MIMO) point-to-multipoint network design increased the network throughput and the quality of service experienced by the users.
RTI recently introduced RTI Connext, a new family of products designed to connect real-time applications across an enterprise. Linking systems on the operational edge with mission-critical IT applications, RTI Connext provides seamless, enterprise-wide integration to improve efficiency, responsiveness and real-time business intelligence (BI).
In this video, Curt Schacker, Chief Commercial Officer of RTI, takes you through the announcement, why it’s significant to a variety of industries and application areas. In addition, he discusses a recent customer use case: Siemens Wind Power.
The News – Feb 14, 2012:
RTI Introduces RTI Connext for Enterprise-Wide Integration, From the Operational Edge to the Enterprise Data Center
New Corporate Strategy Extends Leadership in Aerospace and Defense to Commercial Industries, Improving Operational Efficiency for the Business Enterprise
● Real-time enterprise service bus (ESB) delivers ultra high performance and scalability
● Integrates and aligns IT and operational technology (OT) across the business
● RTI announces new customer: Siemens Wind Power
Leveraging Cloud-based Building Management Systems for Multi-site FacilitiesSchneider Electric
Until recently, enterprise building management of
multiple, distributed facilities has been beyond the
budget of most organizations. New advances in Cloud
technology are now enabling enterprises to centrally
monitor, control and manage their medium and smaller
sized facilities at an affordable cost. The benefits of the
cloud facility management approach have helped to
create more productive environments for workers and
customers and also facilitated better executive
decision-making at the corporate level.
eBook: Guide to Data Center Cabling Infrastructure
In This Free 36-page eBook:
*10 Gb/s Data Center Solutions
*Best Practices for Data Center Infrastructure Design
*Comparing Copper and Fiber Options in the Data Center
*The Hidden Costs of 10 Gb/s UTP Systems
*Light it Up: Fiber *Transmissions and Applications
*Cabling Infrastructure and Green Building Initiatives
About the Author:
Carrie Higbie has been involved in the computing and networking for 25+ years in executive and consultant roles. She is Siemon’s Global Network Applications Manager supporting end-users and active electronics manufacturers. She publishes columns and speaks at industry events globally. Carrie is an expert on TechTarget’s SearchNetworking, SearchVoIP, and SearchDataCenters and authors columns for these and SearchCIO and SearchMobile forums and is on the board of advisors. She is on the BOD and former President of the BladeSystems Alliance. She participates in IEEE, the Ethernet Alliance and IDC Enterprise Expert Panels. She has one telecommunications patent and one pending.
At Schneider Electric, in the IT Division, our core business has always been focused on delivering the highest level of availability to critical technologies, systems and processes. We’ve done this through our award winning, industry-leading and highest quality products and solutions, including UPS, Cooling, Rack Systems, DCIM and Services.
In this new digital era, we see a world that is always-on.
Always on to meet the needs of the highest notion of “access” to goods and services
Always on to be the solid, reliable foundation of digital transformation for businesses
Our mission is: To empower the digital transformation of our customers by ensuring their critical network, systems and processes are highly available and resilient.
SMART GRID INTEROPERABILITY: THE GREAT ENABLERMeisam Rezaeian
The use of standards-based protocols
enables the ability to support and
manage the multitude of technology
and devices required across the smart
grid, providing increased interoperability
and reduced operational cost.
When looking at new system solutions
to upgrade existing infrastructure, some
of the primary attributes to assess are
the network management capabilities,
ability to transition, and support for
existing and evolving technology.
Grid changes are coming, and a growing number
of vendors will participate in the process and add
further innovations. Interoperability will serve as
the prime enabler of these changes. Utilities will
be able to serve their constituents well only if
they choose an upgrade path based on a common
platform for change and find solutions that
accommodate upgrades across the whole spectrum
of the grid.
Mainstream Renewable Power chose eircom managed network services to deliver q...eircom
By choosing eircom to build, manage and secure its infrastructure, Mainstream has developed a strategic ICT relationship that is helping deliver on its strategic vision.
Ericsson Technology Review: Creating the next-generation edge-cloud ecosystemEricsson
The surge in data volume that will come from the massive number of devices enabled by 5G has made edge computing more important than ever before. Beyond its abilities to reduce network traffic and improve user experience, edge computing will also play a critical role in enabling use cases for ultra-reliable low-latency communication in industrial manufacturing and a variety of other sectors.
This Ericsson Technology Review article explores the topic of how to deliver distributed edge computing solutions that can host different kinds of platforms and applications and provide a high level of flexibility for application developers. Rather than building a new application ecosystem and platform, we strongly recommend reusing industrialized and proven capabilities, utilizing the momentum created with Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and ensuring backward compatibility.
The building of Internet data centers (IDCs) is a growing industry that is pushing the limits of electric power and reliability requirements. As utilities must decide whether it is worth the cost to build new infrastructure to keep up with the present demand, facility operators are looking at power distribution designs that will improve efficiency and allow them to continue to expand their operations.
Cisco Network Convergence System: Building the Foundation for the Internet of...Cisco Service Provider
Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) is a family of integrated packet routing and transport systems designed to help service providers capture their share of the IoE Value at Stake. NCS is built on major innovations in silicon, optics and software and provides the building blocks of a multilayer converged network that intelligently manages and scales functions across its architecture.
ACG Research analyzed the business case for NCS and found it achieves massive scale via multichassis system architecture, the density and performance of its new chip set, and the extension of the control plane to virtual machines (VM) internally and externally.
Ericsson introduces a hyperscale cloud solutionEricsson
All businesses are becoming software companies and all are becoming "information enabled". In the near future companies will be dependent on 10x the IT capacity yet they will not have 10x the budget to deliver it. This means the approach must change. Leveraging cloud to deliver software at a faster pace exposes the company to higher levels of risk. This means they have to burden IT with policies that slow down development efforts.
As the massive growth of information technology services places increasing demand on the datacenter it is important to re-architect the underlying infrastructure, allowing companies and end-users to benefit from an increasingly services-oriented world. Datacenters need to deliver on a new era of rapid service delivery. Across network, storage and compute there is a need for a new approach to deliver the scale and efficiency required to compete in a future where "hyperscale" is a pre-requisite.
The Ericsson HDS 8000 delivers a complete datacenter and cloud platform based on Intel® Rack Scale Architecture.
http://www.ericsson.com/spotlight/cloud
iDirect's solution for electric ulitiesJoshua Cohen
The whole 'smart grid' trend is very big in the utilities space. This is a VSAT solution that can help IT Ptos and Operations staff in utilities implement smart grid in their enterprise
Field Data Gathering Services — A Cloud-Based ApproachSchneider Electric
Utilities today wish to facilitate the capture of asset information in the field in a way that is not only scalable but cost effective. They need a system that is simple to use, inexpensive to implement, flexible enough to meet ever-changing needs, yet also powerful enough to cover a majority of their needs with immediacy. This paper describes Schneider Electric's powerful cloud-based solution to optimize the inspection and gathering of field information.
Similar to Commscope Federal Solutions Paper.PDF (20)
Field Data Gathering Services — A Cloud-Based Approach
Commscope Federal Solutions Paper.PDF
1. Secure the digital mission.
Optimize analytics and intelligence with agile, real-time management.
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COMMERCE DEFENSE ENERGY INTELLIGENCE TRANSPORT
2. For more information, visit commscope.com
The stakes couldn’t be higher
2
Delivering the network infrastructure for NGA
East, the second largest U.S. federal campus
*Testimony before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, 4.22.15
“A strong cybersecurity program
is critical to ensuring mission
success. Given the evolving threat
landscape, it is imperative that
we do everything in our power to
ensure the security of government
information and networks.”
— Tony Scott,
Chief Information Officer,
U.S. Office of Management and Budget*
Public agencies are tasked with maintaining the safety and liberty of
their citizens. To protect and preserve these rights, accurate
information and instant communication are mission-critical.
The data center and building infrastructure you recommend
must deliver airtight security, rock-solid availability and cost-
efficient productivity that enable public officials to make smart
strategic decisions in real time.
While each branch of the United States federal government follows a
unique mission, mandates and standards, they share a handful of core
challenges. Whether it’s a civilian, defense or intelligence agency, budgets are tight, deadlines are
rigorous and expectations are high. Complexity is a given, compliance is scrutinized and cybersecurity
is mandatory.
In other words, when a country’s national interests are on the line, mistakes and shortfalls simply aren’t
an option.
When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) needed a secure cabling infrastructure
to support the $1.46 billion construction of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
(NGA) East campus, project leaders sought out CommScope. At 2.4 million square feet,
the campus is rivaled in size only by the Pentagon. As its integrated design-bid-build
(IDBB) partner, CommScope worked with NGA and the prime contractor staff to create a
customized zone cabling solution using a combination of:
• TeraSPEED®
singlemode and LazrSPEED®
OM3 fiber cabling
• Category 6 F/UTP copper cabling
• QWIK-II™
SC and keyed LC connectors
• Preterminated fiber and copper assemblies
The comprehensive solution met all mandatory security requirements, offering support
for 8,500 personnel with room to expand by another 25 percent. Most important, in
April 2011, CommScope completed the entire initiative—design, deployment, testing
and commissioning—a full six months ahead of schedule.
3. For more information, visit commscope.com
Isn’t there an easier way?
Yes, there is. It’s called the CommScope Federal Solutions Team, a specialized unit
comprising experts with decades of military, intelligence and civilian service within a
variety of U.S. agencies. We understand the complex pressures of federal initiatives,
the flexibility required to adapt as objectives evolve, and the long-term perspective and
commitment needed to ensure total success.
The Federal Solutions Team actively engages with integrators serving all branches of
the U.S. government, providing turnkey network infrastructure solutions that help
you design, deploy, modernize and maintain secure infrastructure and infrastructure
management solutions.
This expert team is backed by CommScope, one of the world’s foremost wired and
wireless network infrastructure providers. CommScope engineers guided the arrival
of coaxial, twisted-pair and fiber-optic cabling technology. We’ve written the industry
standards for every major network evolution. We’re pioneering robust, agile data center
solutions. Decades of real-world technical experience and an agile global supply chain
with boots on the ground in more than 100 countries offer you practical, actionable
insights you can draw on to make smarter business decisions.
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Starkey Mortgage slashes energy costs by 70 percent
using Redwood®
intelligent lighting
After purchasing a new corporate headquarters in Plano, Texas, fast-growing Starkey Mortgage
aimed to create a corporate environment that excelled in every possible energy efficiency. The
mortgage lender wanted a cool futuristic space that successfully blended disparate conventional
building systems into a single, cost-effective platform. The company’s long-standing relationship
with CommScope made the Redwood Building Intelligence Platform the ideal solution. Starkey also
installed Uniprise®
Category 6A cabling for its voice and data network. The results?
• A 70 percent reduction in monthly lighting-related energy expenses over its prior facility
• Low-voltage system installed almost exclusively in-house with fully integrated HVAC
• Showcased in Starkey’s corporate headquarters tour to generate new business
• The system will significantly trim operational overhead over its lifespan
“There were just too many pluses for us,” explained Dirk Norrell, Starkey’s telecommunications and
facilities manager. “Between the vastly improved energy efficiency, the chance for integration
with our HVAC system, and the enhanced value it brings to the property, it became clear that
CommScope offered the most cost-effective option.”
A legacy of irreplaceable expertise
CommScope was instrumental in
creating:
• The first data centers
• The first wireless networks
• The first intelligent buildings
• The first cable TV infrastructure
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Deliver on your contract
The agencies comprising the United States government are
exceptionally diverse. The wide variety of global, national, state and
local entities—each with its own culture, jargon, politics, economies
and legislation—means there is no one-size-fits-all solution. To support
such diversity, we offer client-specific solutions for three types of core
government customers.
Civilian federal agencies
The structured cabling solutions LazrSPEED, TeraSPEED and
GigaSPEED®
enable civilian agencies like the departments of Energy,
Transportation and Commerce to invest in critical infrastructure initiatives
and achieve greater operational efficiencies that positively impact
local communities and businesses across the country.
Passive optical network (PON) offerings, Redwood building intelligence,
imVision®
intelligent infrastructure management and ION®
-E unified
wireless infrastructure help stimulate economic prosperity, fuel job
growth, develop new communities and generate more taxable revenue.
The intelligence community
Enterprise solutions like our Data Center on Demand™
family of
purpose-built data centers, iTRACS®
data center infrastructure
management (DCIM) platform and imVision help government agencies
keep Americans safe and our data secure. Redwood, ION-E, iTRACS
and PON solutions address the opportunity to engage in sustainable
(GREEN/LEED) initiatives that drive down energy costs while enhancing
operational efficiencies and minimizing the environmental impact.
The Department of Defense (DoD)
In the theater of war, smarter, faster technology can mean the difference
between life and death, victory and defeat. Actionable, real-time
situational awareness saves lives. High-security, protected solutions
like ION-E, purpose-built Data Center on Demand, iTRACS, PON
and structured cabling enable agencies to rapidly access, accurately
assess and quickly share strategic and tactical information in support
of the modern warfighter.
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Core capabilities
• Proven track record on complex, high-profile,
high-value projects
• Proactive clearance on sensitive projects (DoD)
• Expert local, regional and global field sales
teams
• Convenient regional executive briefing centers
• Agility in design, testing, deployment and
support
• U.S. and overseas manufacturing offers a
global supply chain for efficient logistics
• EPON-approved by the Joint Interoperability
Test Command (JITC)
COMMERCE DEFENSE ENERGY INTELLIGENCE TRANSPORT
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Data Center on Demand (SCIF-certifiable)
Data Center on Demand represents the apex of our enterprise
portfolio: a family of purpose-built prefabricated modular data
centers that offers dramatic, game-changing advantages over brick-
and-mortar facilities. Our modular data center portfolio provides
engineering freedom (build what you want); scalable capacity on
demand (expand at will); and exceptional energy-saving efficiency
via SmartAir™ intelligent cooling that delivers an average partial
PUE as low as 1.03-1.06.
Redwood Building Intelligence Platform
Redwood is one of the most advanced LED lighting systems on the
market. Lights are deployed over low-voltage cabling with high-
density sensors that collect massive quantities of real-time data
on temperature, light and motion to dramatically reduce power
consumption. Even more significant is the opportunity to optimize
building design and office space based on traffic pattern data
gathered from the Redwood sensor network.
iTRACS data center infrastructure
management (DCIM)
The iTRACS DCIM platform offers holistic, end-to-end command
and control over your entire physical ecosystem. Manage your
infrastructure with complete visibility to optimize capacity, availability
and efficiency across both IT and facilities. Benefit from a single
point of management, 2D and 3D visualization and an open
platform architecture that easily connects to other systems—enriching
your overall DCIM coverage and optimizing the use of your existing
investments.
Designed for simplicity, efficiency
and secure capacity
Whether you need to securely increase bandwidth, maximize capacity, boost performance, reduce
energy consumption or simplify a deployment, CommScope is the infrastructure partner of choice.
University of Montana consolidates 23 data centers
into one ultra-efficient powerhouse
Facing an aging IT infrastructure with constant heat and power issues from 23 data center locations,
the IT team at UoM needed to deploy quickly and consolidate space to maximize research
opportunities while improving performance and energy efficiency with comprehensive redundancy.
Compared to its previous infrastructure, after implementing the 16-rack variation of Data Center on
Demand (DCoD) with no HVAC, UoM achieved:
• An 80 percent reduction in energy costs
• A 99 percent reduction in the water bill
• A 73 percent reduction in PUE
“DCoD stood head and shoulders above the rest,” said Tony Jablonski, assistant chief information
officer. Efficiency was off the charts. Deployment was fast. Pricing was right. We were wasting
$45k per year in water usage with our old data center. You can run this solution with virtually a
garden hose. Despite a brutal winter where temperatures reached 15 below zero, DCoD handled
it beautifully. There were no issues at all. Now I can sleep at night. I don’t worry anymore—I know
we’re covered.”
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Wired, wireless or converged: you decide
Structured cabling solutions
Our proven SYSTIMAX®
and Uniprise connectivity solutions
include GigaSPEED Category 6 and 6A copper cabling systems,
LazrSPEED OM3 and OM4 multimode fibers and TeraSPEED
zero water peak singlemode fibers. Preterminated options allow
customization when rapid installation is needed. Additional
security is provided with shielded copper and keyed fiber
options. Outside plant solutions are also available for campus
and base applications.
Intelligent infrastructure solutions
Accessed via an easy-to-use Web-based interface, the imVision
automated infrastructure management (AIM) platform combines
intelligent hardware and software to provide exceptional insight
and real-time control over the entire physical connectivity layer—
cabling, patching, switch ports and end devices.
In-building wireless systems (IBW)
Our Andrew®
portfolio of wireless solutions represents the
pinnacle of quality coverage and capacity—from precise
DAS systems to our groundbreaking ION-E unified wireless
infrastructure.
Passive optical networks (PON)
Compared to traditional network architectures, PON can boost
network performance by up to 50 percent. Using CWDM, FTTx
PON improves performance while reducing initial-build and
day-two operating costs. This makes it ideal for supporting triple-
play architectures (data, video and voice). PON networks are
inherently digitally secure and can be easily
physically secured as well. GPON and
EPON variations are also available.
CommScope helps Aviat Networks blanket
Papua New Guinea with robust wireless service
Based in Santa Clara, California, Aviat Networks has installed roughly 750,000 microwave
networking solutions in more than 100 countries over the past 50 years. When Aviat needed
an innovative deployment strategy to deploy a high-capacity backbone network on the top of
11,634-foot Mt. Otto, they partnered with CommScope. Andrew HSX-series microwave antennas
were air-lifted via helicopter to the mountain’s peak.
• Massive capacity optimization was achieved by transmitting over eight channels in both vertical
and horizontal polarizations using XPIC functionality with link distances of up to 56 miles
• Excellent propagation conditions, XPIC, adaptive modulation and an all-Ethernet architecture
allowed a huge capacity of up to 4 Gbps
• Spatial diversity configurations with two antennas were used at each end of the link to
compensate for the curvature of the Earth
• Exceptional antenna reliability means Aviat expects zero return visits for the next decade
• Spectrum reuse: Antennas employ high-quality radiation pattern envelopes for side lobe
suppression that maximize available spectrum
• Power: Solar panels and on-site generators provider the necessary power
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The right technologies for your strategy
The award-winning CommScope portfolio of enterprise solutions covers a wide variety of infrastructure applications and venues.
Compare the offerings below to decide which solution is ideal for your business.
Benefits Applications Environments
Redwood
Building
Intelligence
Platform.
• Dramatic energy cost-savings on cooling and
lighting
• Integrates many facility systems
• Optimizes how space is used
• Low-voltage cabling minimizes installation expenses
• High-density sensors capture light, motion and heat
• Indoor lighting
• Space and occupancy analytics
• Workspace optimization
• Buildings and facilities
(space and lighting)
• Campus networks
(space and lighting)
• Data centers (lighting)
Data Center
on Demand
Purpose-built
prefabricated
modular data
centers.
• Avg. partial PUE of 1.03-1.06
• On-demand capacity
• Design freedom
• Broad equipment variety
• SCIF certifiable
• Exceptional energy savings
• Data security, storage, transport
and analysis
• Disaster recovery
• Remote office support
• Mobile computing
• Distributed networks
• Temporary installations
• Campus networks
• Oil and gas sites
• Military bases
• Financial services
• Remotely managed
telecom sites
IBW/ION-E
Unified wireless
infrastructure.
• Frequency agnostic
• Runs over an IT network
• Economical Category 6A and fiber cable
• Supports a multicarrier environment
• In-building wireless
• Wi-Fi and security camera coverage
extension via UAP
• Data centers
• High-rise buildings
• Shopping malls
• Museums/casinos
• Military bases
• Hospitals
imVision
Intelligent,
automated
infrastructure
management.
• Physical layer insight and control
• Efficiently improve uptime
• Reduce maintenance costs
• Compliance with auditing mandates and
requirements
• Secure, central physical layer and
device tracking
• Asset management (MAC)
• Manage data center, building and
campus OSP connectivity from a
single platform
• Data centers
• Intelligent buildings
• Outside plant fiber
• Campus networks
PON (EPON/
GPON)
End-to-end FTTx
architectures
for transmitting
voice, data
and video.
• Reduces CapEx for cabling, Ethernet switches,
cooling, power and backup power equipment
• Converges all network elements onto
singlemode optical fiber
• Creates central point of control; core and desktop
are the only active components
• Reduce OpEx for power, software licenses and
cooling
• 128-bit AES encryption
• Voice, data and video systems run
over a single network
• DAS systems can use spare optical
fibers in PON cabling
• Run Wi-Fi access points over PON
• Eliminate IDFs and pathway size/
quantity
• Intelligent buildings
• Military bases
• Campus networks
• Large facilities
Preterminated
cabling
Proven
SYSTIMAX
and Uniprise
connectivity.
• Copper and fiber options
• Reduces labor and installation time
• No waste or excess materials
• Higher density reduces space by 50%
• Factory terminated and tested for
quality performance and system assurance
• Moves, adds and changes
• Data center SAN and IP network
• Suitable for traditional 3-Tier or
spine/leaf architecture
• Buildings and facilities
• Data centers
iTRACS DCIM
Command and
control over
entire physical
ecosystem.
• Holistic 2D and 3D network visibility make the DC
a strategic mission advantage
• View and manage all interconnected assets, power,
connectivity and physical resources in near-real time
• Optimizes capacity, availability, efficiency
• Open platform easily connects to other systems
• Capacity planning
• Manage operations, assets, changes
(MAC), connectivity, space,
availability and capacity
• Deep-dive analytics can help identify
and resolve a broad range of data
center issues
• Data centers