Archive | September, 2009

The Art of Data Centre Cabling & when Data Centre Cabling Becomes Art

The Art of Data Centre Cabling & when Data Centre Cabling Becomes Art

Highlighted Seminar Session - When Data Centre Cabling Becomes Art Presented by CommScope 13:50 PM - 14:20 PM - Datacentre Management Theatre Register Free Now A quick look behind the racks where users connect back to the servers and the odds are you’ll discover a veritable spaghetti of cables – almost certainly UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair) copper as [...] [...more]

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Making 802.11n Your Primary Connection

Making 802.11n Your Primary Connection

As we all know, the trend towards mobile communications among workers, students, and guests has pressed for the rapid migration from Wi-Fi hot spots for a handful of casual users to Wi-Fi networks for high performance users.  When selecting the Wi-Fi solution for your organization, you need to make certain the architecture is powerful and [...] [...more]

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The safe bet seems to be Ethernet

The safe bet seems to be Ethernet

Visit Global Crossing on Stand 222 at IP Expo, 7-8 October, Earls Court , London. Registration is Free and takes minutes to complete for individuals and teams alike. Network speeds over the last few years have gone through a revolution. They have moved from a privilege that was only bestowed upon first world countries and large [...] [...more]

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Cloud Computing or Cloud Nine?

Cloud Computing or Cloud Nine?

Who would have thought that nephology would become so significant in IT?! Clouds are the discussion topic of the moment and represent the business model many vendors and user enterprises are aspiring to deliver. However, like its meteorological counterpart, cloud computing is often insubstantial on closer inspection and likely to rain on the virtualisation parade. What [...] [...more]

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Wireless turns a greedy eye on PoE Plus

Wireless turns a greedy eye on PoE Plus

Grinding slow but exceedingly small, the IEEE has, since September 2005, been crafting a standard commonly known as PoE (Power over Ethernet) or, in its most recent official guise, 802.3at.  It is a technology that integrates electrical power into a standard LAN infrastructure: it enables power to be provided to the network device (such as [...] [...more]

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Standards for a Virtual World

Standards for a Virtual World

As is the way of most technological paradigm shifts, the phenomenon of virtualisation emerged in advance of any standards initiatives. One solution to the challenge of making the pieces fit together neatly is, of course, to rely on a single vendor, with the attendant risk of being locked into on approach, vulnerable to the vicissitudes [...] [...more]

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