In this issue . . .n Optus Hosting Centres Thrive with New Cable Management n Network Transplant for Queensland Laboratory n Adds, Moves & Changes - Eliminating the Nightmare of Patch Cord Tangles

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A Word from Bob Fitzgerald

The last six months have been very eventful for our industry. Copper commodity prices have gone through the roof, driven

by increased demand from the vastly accelerating industries in India and China.

Fibre has certainly become a growth area with FTTX investment in Australia gaining momentum. Our experience as the US market leader in FTTX infrastructure has given great opportunity to stay ahead with solutions and lead the way in the Asia Pacific region. Part of this is ADC KRONE’s involvement as a founding member of the Asia Pacific FTTH Council.

In May, our new wireless solutions were made available within the Asia Pacific region. With solutions for both enterprise and carrier applications, we are set to provide the foundation for the wireless boom. The Australian launch was at CeBIT Australia, see page 3 for details on this.

As you may have heard, the IEEE have ratified a new standard of 10G copper structured cabling. This has been a long time coming, with ADC KRONE taking the working proof of UTP being able support 10Gig over 100 metres back in March 2004. With this working proof, the IEEE accepted of our practically proven system and we launched CopperTen later in 2004. Many of our customers have already installed the solution, taking advantage of the increased bandwidth CopperTen offers. Peter Meijer’s article on page 8 provides details on the new standard.

Another new technology we have recently released is Category 6 leadframe jacks. Replacing the printed circuit board technology on traditional Category 6 outlets, our leadframe design is more robust and reliable. This new product has won us several awards including ATUG and Central Coast Manufacturers Awards. I’m proud to say that ADC KRONE is a company committed to ongoing innovation, paving the way for the next generation of networking.

SincerelyBob FitzgeraldVP & Regional DirectorAsia Pacific Region

ADC KRONE News3 ADC KRONE Updates Customer Programs3 New Wireless Solutions Revealed at CeBIT 20067 FutureTech 20068 Automated Digital Cross-Connect15 Manufacturer of the Year at CCMA Awards

Customer Stories4 Clear Skies for Melbourne Airport10 Optus Hosting Centres Thrive with New Cable Management13 Network Transplant for Queensland Laboratory

Technical Articles8 IEEE Ratifies 10 Gigabit Ethernet Standard9 Adds, Moves & Changes

Editor: Sarah BishopArt Direction: Nora CollinsWebsite: adckrone.com/au

Copyright © 2006 ADC Communications (Australia) Pty. Limited

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ADC KRONE Updates Customer Programs

I was pleased to meet many of you at our recent FutureTech event. This annual event gives us an

opportunity to spend time with our key customers and to update you with the very latest information on technical advances, standards and solutions to future-proof your business.

Many of you are now members of our TrueNet Rewards program, which has replaced the Club KRONE loyalty program. As with Club KRONE, the program offers one point for every dollar you spend on ADC KRONE products. You can then use these points to buy training or products.

More information on the program, including exclusive information and benefits for members, is available at www.truenetrewards.com.au. If you’re not yet a member, I urge you to visit the site and join today.

We have also created the TrueNet Integrator program for our installer partners. Members receive ADC KRONE accreditation, allowing them to offer an ADC KRONE warranty on installations. We recently modified the program so that

integrators can now apply for the warranty on behalf of the end user, removing the need for the end user to sign the registration form to validate the warranty. We’re sure our integration partners will want to take advantage of the improved TrueNet Integrator program and I encourage you to do so.

On another note, I would like to congratulate three of our staff for well-deserved promotions. Scott Whiston has been promoted to Queensland state manager, Carl Holmes has been promoted to WA state manager and Terry Finn has been promoted to sales executive – Enterprise Channels in our NSW office.

In addition, our customers in NSW and WA will see two new faces joining our sales team over the coming weeks with Jacqui Heath joining us in NSW and Jason Pullman adding his talents to our WA team. Jacqui will be focussing on our Enterprise Channel partners while Jason will be supporting our Channels and Corporate Accounts divisions. n

Damien Rodgers, Sales Director - Enterprise, AU & NZ

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CeBIT 2006CeBIT Australia is the country’s leading ICT

event, attracting visitors from the corporate IT, telecommunications, information and communications sectors. ADC KRONE participated in the 2006 event in May and it was an excellent opportunity for us to display our new solutions.

CeBIT 2006 saw ADC KRONE’s unveiling of the new Digivance™ wireless solutions, with a display that generated great interest from many different groups from different industries. The wireless solutions are designed specifically to address the challenges associated with distributing and enhancing capacity and coverage in wireless networks. The Digivance product family is the only purely digital RF transport solution available on the market today and is designed to provide mobile operators with coverage and capacity enhancement solutions for new and existing networks. n

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Clear skies for Melbourne Airport

Melbourne Airport is a major international passenger and freight gateway to Australia.

Renowned for its world-class facilities, the airport serviced more than 20 million passengers last year. Consistently rated highly in passenger surveys, Melbourne Airport has been ranked in the world’s top five airports.

THE CHALLENgETo maintain its high level of service and industry-leading practices, Melbourne Airport needed to upgrade and standardise its cabling system.

“Our needs and available technology have grown in the decade since most of our cabling

was installed,” said Mark Funston, Melbourne Airport’s Information Technology Manager. “We needed to upgrade to ensure network stability and to future-proof the network so we can implement new technologies as they become available.”

Managing the network had also become complicated, with no central network map. As a result, patches and changes were delayed while IT workers tried to physically locate cabling. Or, entire swathes of cabling had to be reinstalled because the existing cabling could not be found. This was inefficient and expensive.

A third challenge was that external contractors could physically access the network and make unauthorised and unrecorded changes, posing a security risk.

THE SOLUTiONWorking closely with network integrators Airport Data & Electrical, Melbourne Airport set two project goals:

1. To develop and implement a structured cabling standard on which the entire network could be based.

2. To thoroughly document the network for future knowledge.

“The solution needed to be cost effective to own and run as well as be flexible, not locking the airport in to any one contractor or manufacturer,” said Sean Dowsett, General Manager of Airport Data & Electrical. “We evaluated competitors, but ADC KRONE was the clear choice.”

Melbourne Airport has standardised on ADC KRONE products including Fibre Optic cabling, Terescope free space optics, Category 6 patch panels, patch cords and cabling and HighBand® 25.

Choosing ADC KRONE’s HighBand 25 cross connect solution was essential for Melbourne

Melbourne Airport’s new structured cabling standard based on ADC KRONE’s solutions yields immediate benefits and allows future

expansion.

By Peter Katsianis, Sales Executive

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Airport to implement a structured cabling standard. HighBand® 25 allows maximum network throughput beyond one Gigabit. Designed for the most advanced networks, it was the perfect choice for Melbourne Airport’s future needs as they move towards delivering applications like streaming video.

“Our network runs security and surveillance software, among other things. As well as requiring high bandwidth, these are extremely important applications for an airport, and ones that we can’t afford to have slow or break down because of an inefficient network,” explained Mark Funston.

The Terescope free space optics solution provides Melbourne Airport with Australia’s first 1.2 Gigabit connection, from the data centre to a remote building for disaster recovery. The Terescope is a line-of-sight device providing reliable wireless connectivity – essential if the cabling is compromised.

THE iMPLEMENTATiONIn September 2004, Melbourne Airport began the first step in the installation process: upgrading its data centre.

Peter Loosley, IT&T Services Manager, Melbourne Airport said: “As the centre of our network, the data centre became the standard with which

the entire airport would comply. We could then upgrade the rest of the cabling throughout the airport as further refurbishments and renovations took place.”

Airport Data & Electrical installed the new, high bandwidth ADC KRONE Category 6 cabling. The HighBand 25 solution allows Melbourne Airport to manage the network more efficiently with the added benefit of being neater with a smaller footprint than other solutions, so it takes up less valuable space in the data centre.

“The initial installation into the data centre went off without a hitch,” said Peter Loosley. “It was easy to manage and we had no cabling issues. The only challenges we faced were logistical, such as making sure project managers follow the standard and install the cabling correctly.”

THE RESULTSThe most important benefit of the ADC KRONE TrueNet installation, according to Mark Funston,

“we needed to upgrade to ensure network stability and to future-proof the network so we can implement new technologies as they become available.”

Sean Dowsett, Airport Data & Electrical and Peter Loosley, Melbourne Airport.

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is the network’s vastly improved quality, performance and reliability.

“Upgrading and standardising our cabling has meant that we are no longer limited by our network. We can implement software and services as required. We can offer applications like streaming video over the high bandwidth cable, which is great not only for security and surveillance, but also for training and other potential applications,” said Mark Funston.

Being able to more easily manage the network has been another important benefit.

“The new standard means that senior staff are no longer required for patch management, so we can concentrate on more strategic issues. We know where all the physical aspects of the network are now, so patching can be done by less senior staff without any compromise on quality. We estimate this has resulted in a 20 - 30% saving on staff time,” said Mark Funston.

“The HighBand® 25 system is well documented

and foolproof. We can hand work over to consultants and contractors fearlessly. It’s easy for us to check their work and we can be confident of the standards we can expect,” he continued.

“The HighBand 25 Patch-by-Exception rule enables our contractors to do around 15 patch jobs at once instead of one or two, reducing costs and wear and tear on the cables,” added Peter Loosley.

FUTURE PROOFiNg THE BUSiNESSAs Melbourne Airport continues to grow and evolve, the ADC KRONE Category 6 cabling will allow the IT team to implement applications as needed, without the limitations imposed by the older Category 5 cabling.

“As the next three to five years unfold, we will find ourselves able to react to advances in technology very quickly thanks to the ADC KRONE network,” concluded Mark Funston. “We will be able to use even bandwidth-hungry new applications and services over the same infrastructure with complete confidence. This will provide a better service to all our network users and will ensure Melbourne Airport maintains its position as one of the world’s best airports.” n

“As the next three to five years unfold, we will find ourselves able to react to advances

in technology very quickly thanks to the ADC KRONE network” Melbourne Airport’s Mark Funston.

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FutureTech 2006 was a great success with

a good mix of learning & fun in the beautiful surroundings of Couran Cove Island Resort. The theme for this year was Building for Bandwidth.

There were a range of presentations including special guest speakers Michael Boland, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco and Gordon Laing, Principal Technical Consultant, Oracle. These presentations gave the big picture of next generation networks detailing the technology required for the next phase of technological advances.

We also had presentations from ADC KRONE detailing the technical trends, standards and solutions to meet these next generation requirements.

Of course, there was a great deal of fun to be had in the midst of learning including a great afternoon of watersports, golf, deep sea fishing and more. n

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As expected, the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) has ratified the

10 Gigabit Ethernet standard, 802.3an. Widely anticipated during the month of June 2006, IEEE’s announcement came earlier than expected and sets the stage for a surge in 10 Gigabit installations in the months ahead. This new Category of cable is known as Augmented Category 6.

ADC KRONE – a long-time, active member of IEEE – was instrumental in proving the viability of the 10 Gig standard when it introduced the industry’s first commercially available product in 2004. Called CopperTen™, it was the world’s first design for an unshielded twisted pair cable that was fully backwards compatible with Category 6 and able to support 18 Gbps of Shannon’s capacity. As a result of its leadership role, ADC KRONE’s CopperTen system – including cable, connectors, patch panels and patch cords – is installed in thousands of buildings around the world. As early as 2007, industry analysts foresee installation of Augmented Category 6 systems to surpass that of Category 5e systems.

Universities, colleges, TV studios, government facilities and top financial services companies have been the early adopters of 10 Gig copper solutions. These segments leverage their already installed CopperTen structured information transport systems with cutting-edge technology to help differentiate their services and offerings in an increasingly competitive world.

The ratification of the IEEE802.3an standard is the first step in getting worldwide adoption of channels for 10GBE protocols that can run on the less expensive copper cabling instead of optical fibre cabling. Switch and other equipment manufacturers will now be able to progress with confidence towards implementing their 10GBE solutions on copper. Installers and customers can also proceed confident in the knowledge that the ADC KRONE CopperTen solution will meet what the IEEE has specified for 10GBE applications.

The question that most in the industry are asking is can we do better than what the IEEE wants for 10GBE, and the answer is a definite Yes! How much better is being addressed by the various standards bodies. The TIA in America are actively working on specifying Channels, Permanent Links and component requirements that exceed the IEEE requirements. The ISO have decided to publish first their Channel requirements (due before the end of 2006) that exceed both the TIA and the IEEE requirements, and in about a year’s time they will publish their Permanent Link and component requirements. n

For more information regarding the IEEE 802.3an

standard and ADC KRONE’s CopperTen Augmented

Category 6 solutions, including actual customer case

studies, contact your local ADC KRONE sales office, or

visit the Web: www.adckrone.com/au

By Peter Meijer, JP BE MSc.,RCDD,

Technical Manager industry Support.

iEEE Ratifies 10 Gigabit Ethernet Standard

ADC KRONE helped blaze the trail when it premiered a 10 Gig copper solution three years ago.

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e Automated Digital Cross-Connect (ADX)A new revolutionary patented product for the digital distribution frame market.

The ADX provides innovative solutions for interconnecting systems at telecommunication network edge and CO exchange buildings. The solutions enable space reductions of 60-80%, increased flexibility and reduced capital and operational expenditure. With the most compact design, it offers decreased power consumption and reduced cabling requirements.

To find out more about the ADX solutions, contact your local ADC KRONE sales representative.

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For too long, cable management has been a major issue for Installers and IT Managers

alike. As organisations grow in size, they quickly outgrow their cabling infrastructure and cabinets and racks become overcrowded. Even with ample horizontal cable management, patch cords still seem to get tangled. Simple adds, moves and changes can become time consuming and frustrating. It is inevitable that in an RJ45 patch panel system, there will be excess lengths of cord used. This either takes up the space in the patch cord minder or clutters the front of the rack. It can also degrade performance of the installed system.

The Glide vertical managers attach to each side of the Glide rack, ensuring that the front of rack is left uncluttered and easily accessible. The use of horizontal patch cord minders is minimised, resulting in a higher amount of rack units available for patch panels or any other patching equipment. This can result in a saving in floor space, which

is valuable in high-density environments such as call centres. The Glide system works by managing excess lengths of cable through a series of vertical spools called slack managers located within the Glide verticals. Each Glide vertical also has a rib cage, which is its own set of outer cable managers. The patented rib cages are designed to accommodate patch cords at the front of the rack and terminated solid cables at the rear of the rack. While decreasing the initial installation time, this provides greater access for technicians when maintenance is required.

ADC KRONE’s Glide Cable Management System is the solution to long term efficiency in the building distributor, floor distributor or any IT environment where patching is required. No matter how long the patch cords and no matter how many cords are used, Glide provides a neat, well managed and user friendly cabling infrastructure allowing moves, adds and changes to take place quickly and accurately. n

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Optus Hosting Centres Thrive with New Cable Management

Data centres that support both space-saving density and heavy reconfigurations

without disrupting service or causing day-to-day operations nightmares offer advantages to service providers. A zone distribution design for the data centre improves network reliability while reducing operating costs. The performance of the overall data centre is therefore only as strong as the structured cabling design and managed density infrastructure components surrounding routers, multiplexers, servers, media gateways and other active equipment.

Optus is the second largest service provider in Australia, providing over six million consumer and business customers with services that include mobile, local, long distance, Internet, satellite and subscription television. An important value-added service for business customers is hosting solutions in Optus data centres in Sydney and Melbourne. These hosting centres allow customers to lease rack space from Optus to install and manage their own equipment. The hosting centres provide

a valuable service for business customers who don’t have a properly controlled data centre environment or just prefer to outsource hosting of business systems to a provider which offers 24/7 support.

The original build was designed to minimise initial costs. Five structured cabling vendors provided the category 5e copper, singlemode and multimode fibre, and connectivity solutions for the infrastructure. After several years of operation, Optus looked to improve the way it delivers services with the data centres, ensuring exceptional reliability for existing customers and grow the data centres business. The tender for the new build proposed state-of-the-art components, including category 6 cabling, OM3 multimode fibre, and enhanced cable management that would allow increased density while providing a secure, flexible and manageable environment.

The data centre design is a simple, logical cube set architecture with three building blocks—the

By Adelle Ly, Sales Director, Carrier,

Australia & New Zealand

Danny Vertouris, Optus and Adelle

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hosting rack, the switch rack and the infrastructure rack. The basis of the architecture is the customer cube that consists of 10 hosting racks for customer-owned equipment plus switch racks placed as bookends for each lineup. The hosting racks, leased space where customers come in, plug in and maintain their hardware, are not purpose-built cross-connects. Rather, depending upon the lineup, each hosting rack is terminated with live UTP, coax, singlemode, or multimode fibre that is pre-provisioned to the switch racks within the customer cube.

Within each customer cube, the two switch racks provide connections between the lineup of 10 hosting racks, enabling communications between racks through simple patching at cross-connect racks. Each customer cube lineup of 10 hosting racks and two switch racks becomes an island within the data centre and can cater to the requirements of a customer data centre.

When it was time to upgrade the existing copper and fibre infrastructure, Optus identified key issues that needed to be addressed. The cube set architecture was proven, yet there was room to transform a good hosting centre into a great one. Reaching this goal was to be accomplished by marrying higher bandwidth cabling and connectors with a superior structured cabling system.

OBJECTiVESFor Optus, the new build presented an opportunity to add an additional level of security in the hosting centres. At one level, the new build should improve data security for hosting centre customers. At another level the new build reduces errors from individuals moving the wrong cable, breaking a jumper at a cross-connect, or committing other errors that could interrupt service.

Optus’ criteria for the project were simple. They wanted a more secure, highly manageable and extensively flexible infrastructure to improve internal operations, increase rack space, and improve the way Optus delivers services to hosting centre customers.

FLEXiBLE HOSTiNg RACKSBy pre-provisioning a reasonable number and type of data cables between hosting racks and switch racks within each customer cube, Optus provides a self-service, easy and quick way for customers to bolt in servers, plug in, power up, and commence operations. To provide a plug-and-play environment that maximises rack space, Optus equipped each hosting rack with ADC KRONE Multimedia Patch Panels. These empty patch panels accept any mix of single circuits for UTP, coax and fibre applications using ADC KRONE 6000 series modular outlets and media adaptors. Basically, each customer can have their own mix of cable terminations without wasting space in hosting racks.

Where singlemode and multimode fibre terminations are required in a hosting rack, Optus used ADC KRONE’s fibre bulkhead panels that provide termination and splice capabilities in a one rack unit panel.

CREATE BEST PRACTiCES FOR iNSTALLATiON & RECONFigURATiONSWith so many different customers and contractors working on hosting racks, creating an intuitive cabling system was another important criteria for the hosting centre. The challenge was making the hosting racks easy to use for anyone, even users more comfortable with software than with cabling hardware.

The angled connectors available for the Multimedia Panels were instantly appealing. Angled connectors naturally direct patch cords to the right or the left of the panel and into the vertical cable managers, helping customers to

Optus Hosting Centres Thrive with New Cable Management

Optus’ Simon Desmond patching a Multimedia Patch Panel.

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route cables properly and improve physical protection. By establishing a flow of patch cords into vertical managers with integrated slack managers, users create a more orderly and protected environment that improves reliability.

To further improve manageability of the infrastructure, horizontal crossovers and vertical cable managers were required on the hosting, switch and infrastructure racks. ADC KRONE’s Glide Cable Management System, with integrated front, rear, vertical and horizontal cable management, was chosen for the hosting centres. For hosting racks, this would allow customers to bring just about any length of patch cable to the job and still have a built-in plan to route and store excess cable lengths using the integrated slack managers.

iMPROVE SECURiTy AND PHySiCAL PROTECTiONWith over 80 percent of data centre floor space leased to hosting centre customers, security remains an important criterion in product selection for the cabling infrastructure. On one hand, customers and contractors require access to their racks. On the other, distribution frames for cross-connects to outside services required a solution that was less generally accessible. For any solution, patch cords, jumpers, equipment cables, and power cables all required a minimum level of physical protection from day-to-day activities.

One solution would have been to build a secure room for the main distribution frames accessible only to Optus personnel. While this presented a secure solution, it would cost more in construction and ongoing expenses such as HVAC. More important, a secure room for distribution frames would easily consume two customer cubes on the floor, which translates into 20 hosting racks that could not be leased to customers.

Instead, ADC KRONE proposed an alternative solution

to provide the appropriate level of security and physical protection for the distribution frames. One solution was the OMX™ 600 optical distribution frame. This frame system offered Optus many unique features. First was density—up to 576 terminations and splices within a 600mm x 300mm footprint. Second was optimal use of floor space because the all-front access OMX 600 could be installed back-to-back or against a wall. Third was not just density, but managed density through superior cable management. ADC KRONE’s patented angled retainers and integrated slack managers ensure bend radius protection. In addition, splice wheels provide the ability to unroll the splice and storage device into a proper location so that splicing is performed without adding unnecessary optical loss.

Limiting public access to the UTP cross-connects was another issue. ADC KRONE offered physical security for the large capacity copper distribution

frames by providing a custom solution of front and back doors to enclose UTP rack configurations. At first it seemed that a standard cabinet was required to enclose RJ45 distribution panels. However, proposed cabinet solutions offered limited technician access in dense configurations and less space for cable routing, as compared to the Glide Cable system that bolts onto the sides of racks. The custom solution preserved the superior access and managed density of the RJ45 distribution frames using the ADC KRONE system while restricting access to racks.

The end result for Optus was data centres that could accommodate density and heavy reconfigurations without disrupting service and without causing day-to-day operations nightmares. From the MDF to the port level, the cube set architecture presented a simple

and logical infrastructure design. Yet the design was only as strong as the structured and managed density cabling system surrounding the active equipment. n

“The result for Optus was data centres that could

accommodate density and heavy reconfigurations

without disrupting service or causing day-to-day

operations nightmares.”

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QML Pathology has an 80-year heritage of providing pathology services to hospitals

and medical centres in Queensland. It has 26 laboratories, over 200 collection centres, 43 pathologists and in excess of 2000 staff, who are able to draw on extensive resources from Symbion Health’s national pathology network.

The technology to support QML’s activities helps to improve efficiency and provision of high quality, industry-leading services. Activities involve blood collection, specimen transportation, receipt and storage, testing, data storage and results delivery.

QML can provide tailored reports and results can be securely downloaded from anywhere in the world.

NEW $30 MiLLiON FACiLiTy PRESENTS AN OPPORTUNiTyIn 2006, QML Pathology opened a new $30 million facility in Brisbane – one of the largest, purpose-built medical laboratories in the Southern Hemisphere, designed to cater for the future needs of Queensland’s doctors and patients. Relocation of the central laboratory to the new site gave the IT team an opportunity to install a completely new network in a greenfield environment.

“We decided to use the move as a chance to upgrade and future-proof our network, building in a high level of stability and reliability,” explained QML’s IT relocation project manager Paul Abel.”

The previous premises used ADC KRONE’s HighBand® 10 system and Category 5e cabling. QML had been very happy with this arrangement, but wanted take advantage of the PABX reaching end-of-life to move to a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) environment, which wasn’t possible using the existing cabling. QML also wanted a high density patching arrangement to continue to allow patching by exception.

By Scott Whiston, State Sales Manager, Queensland

Network transplant for Queensland LaboratoryQueensland Medical Laboratory (QML) moves to new premises and installs ADC KRONE’s solutions to create a network platform with the capacity to meet future needs of Queensland’s doctors and patients.

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ADC KRONE FiTS THE BiLLADC KRONE’s HighBand® 25 system with Category 6 cabling plus an OM3 fibre backbone was chosen for QML’s new central laboratory.

ADC KRONE’s solution came out on top,” said Paul Abel. “Our existing working relationship with ADC KRONE was strong and the products had been working very well for us. There is a level of trust and expectation in our relationship with ADC KRONE that we felt very comfortable with.”

ADC KRONE’s HighBand 25 cross connect solution allows for maximum network throughput beyond one Gigabit as well as the Patch-by-Exception functionality demanded by QML. The Category 6 cabling is essential for advanced networks like QML’s. Finally, the laser-optimised OM3 fibre backbone enables information to travel long distances without errors, thus maximising bandwidth.

iNSTALLATiON gOES ACCORDiNg TO PLANADC KRONE-certified KLM Group installed the new network KLM Group’s Brett Nash said that the aim was to deliver a network that virtually eliminated errors caused by the cabling system.

“We needed to effect the physical move with minimal downtime and impact to the business, to avoid a backlog of work” said Mr Nash.

The project took approximately two years. The first step was to create a link between the existing and new on-site data centres using ADC KRONE OM3 fibre. Once that link was established, the network migration could proceed without network downtime.

The physical dimensions of the new, 9,000 square metre central laboratory provided a challenge, in terms of designing the network layout.“ We had to work within the bounds of the wall space available, and we had to design the network layout to fit,” explained Paul Abel. “During the testing process we had seen some great results from the ADC KRONE products, but we weren’t sure whether we could replicate those results given the space constraints we had to work with.”

“The new building contained a ducting system that included some very tight turns,” added Brett Nash. “We were concerned about the performance of the cabling around these turns, but our fears ended up being unfounded. The ADC KRONE Category 6 cabling performed exceptionally well.”

NUMBER ONE gOAL ACHiEVEDThanks to the collective experience of QML’s IT relocation team, KLM Group and ADC KRONE, the move happened on time and on budget. Importantly, the installation achieved QML’s number one goal: reliability.

“We planned to do the final physical move over the four-day Easter break to minimise the

“we needed to effect the physical move with minimal downtime and impact to the

business, to avoid a backlog of work”

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disruption to the business, which we achieved. We now have a network that is stable and reliable and will also grow with the business. Moves, adds and changes are much easier thanks to the ADC KRONE HighBand® 25 system,” said Paul Abel.

“We are delighted with the reliability and flexibility that the ADC KRONE system presents. This investment helps to ensure we will cater for the future needs of doctors and patients in Australia’s fastest growing pathology market,” said Paul Abel. “The results were absolutely what we expected at the outset, so we’re thrilled,” he said.

Before the move, when the business was spread over a number of different buildings, there were campus areas that required fibre connectivity, resulting in added expense. Bringing the business under one roof meant QML no longer needs to support these outlying areas, reducing costs and giving the infrastructure some consistency.

In addition, QML’s network is now VoIP-enabled. The new VoIP network saves on communications expenses in comparison to PABX and ensures the network is future-proofed. QML will also be able to implement Wide Area VoIP in the future, although it’s not needed yet.

“We have effectively future-proofed our network and ensured ongoing capability, stability and reliability thanks to the ADC KRONE installation. The most important consideration for our business is network performance and we feel confident that we’ve delivered that,” concluded Paul Abel. n

Manufacturer of the year

CCMA AwardsFor the fourth consecutive year, ADC KRONE has won the title

of Central Coast Manufacturer of the Year. Along with this prestigious award, ADC KRONE received the awards for Innovation in Technology, Innovation in Manufacturing and Environmental Practice.

The awards were presented by the Central Coast Manufacturing Association as a part of the annual awards and celebration evening held on Saturday 30th May at the Crowne Plaza, Terrigal.

ADC KRONE’s Berkeley Vale manufacturing facility is the centre of excellence for the region, recently becoming Asia-Pacific Headquarters for ADC KRONE.

These awards recognise the dedication of the entire ADC KRONE team to business excellence and innovation.

“We are thrilled to yet again win such a prestigious award”, said John Harris, Manufacturing Director at ADC KRONE. “Winning the Manufacturer of the Year Award three years running is a testament to the excellence we set as a standard in our product development and manufacturing.” n

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