PLUS . . .  NEED FOR SPEED — THE GRID APPLICATION FOR 10 GIGABIT  10 GIGABIT COPPER — THE FACTS  MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE Vol11 No3 2004 A s the worldwide leader in telecommunications infrastructure, KRONE has a knack for making the impossible, possible. At the IEEE 10 Gigabit Ethernet standard working group meeting, this proved to be the case when KRONE introduced the industry’s first augmented Category 6 cable. This cable comprised the necessary characteristics to enable 10 Gigabit Ethernet to be implemented over unshielded twisted pair (UTP) to the full 100 metres required for structured cabling systems. I’m pleased to announce that this astounding breakthrough, is now available as a complete end-to-end cabling system appropriately named KRONE CopperTen ™ , delivering an easier to install and more cost- effective solution than shielded and fibre optic cabling systems, revolutionising the future of networking forever. KRONE CopperTen was successfully launched in Australia at the recent CeBIT exhibition. Aimed at providing ICT solutions for tomorrow’s business world, CeBIT was the perfect place to showcase KRONE’s latest innovation, generating a great deal of interest amongst the IT community. Inside this special edition of Network News we provide you with a closer look at KRONE CopperTen and what makes it so revolutionary. On page 6, Glen Johnston’s overview on the evolution of the 10 Gigabit copper phenomenon dispels the myths currently surrounding this new technology. While on page 8, Peter Meijer takes an in-depth look at the science behind KRONE CopperTen, reviewing the attributes of the world’s first 10GBASE-T UTP cabling system. KRONE understand cabling infrastructure is a long-term investment and now CopperTen provides customers with a truly flexible, future proofed solution. On page 4, Rob Milne discusses this from an IT Manager’s perspective, detailing the applications for a 10 Gigabit Ethernet UTP cabling system. We expect KRONE CopperTen to find its first applications in data centres, medical facilities, higher education campuses and enterprises that routinely work with large electronic files requiring increased bandwidth. I’m sure you’ll agree that the advantages of KRONE CopperTen are nothing less than remarkable. It represents the next generation in structured cabling technology and will bring tremendous time and cost savings, as well as increased productivity to installers and customers alike. Sincerely Craig Jones CEO 2  NETWORKnews GOING THE DISTANCE! Copper cable and KRONE ingenuity take 10 Gigabit Ethernet to a whole new dimension Customer Stories 12 Stylish HIGHBAND ® 25 Eliminates Security Issues 14 Robust HIGHBAND 25 Powers On In Remote Mining Network Product Update 8 Making the Impossible Possible Business Articles 4 The Need For Speed… The Grid 6 10 Gigabit Copper: The Facts KRONE News 3 CopperTen 13 Club KRONE Update 16 Environmental High Editor: Joanna Parsons Art Direction: Nora Collins Website: www.krone.com.au Email: kronehlp@krone.com.au CONTENTS Copyright © 2001 KRONE Australia Holdings Pty. Limited C eBIT Australia, the major international information and communications technology exhibition in Australia, was recently held at Darling Harbour from 4 to 6 May. Considered by many as the IT industry’s “One Stop Shop”, CeBIT provides visitors with the opportunity to view the latest systems, services and trends for information technology. As such, it was the perfect platform to launch KRONE’s latest innovation, with visitors witnessing the Australian release of the world’s first 10 Gigabit UTP cabling system. Our new end-to-end suite of cable and connector products aptly titled, KRONE CopperTen, became the subject of great interest. With the CopperTen solution as the major focus of our stand this year, KRONE sales executives and product specialists were kept busy answering inquiries from visitors keen to learn more about this revolutionary technology. In fact, I’m pleased to say that the 10 Gigabit portfolio of products generated a great deal of discussion. As a result, we are expecting to see a large uptake of this technology in networks being installed in the near future. We anticipate as new technologies emerge, network users will quickly realise the benefits provided by KRONE CopperTen’s advanced infrastructure. Overall it was another successful showing for KRONE and the CeBIT organisers, with approximately 500 exhibitors from 15 countries and more than 25,000 visitors in attendance during the three days. It’s pleasing to note that this exhibition is continuing to grow from strength to strength and is now an important part of the KRONE calendar, providing the ideal opportunity to showcase our latest innovations, like CopperTen, to the marketplace. Thank you to those of you who took the time to visit the KRONE stand and learn more about our new CopperTen technology. For those of you unable to attend, we look forward to seeing you next year.  NETWORKnews  3 COPPERTEN ™ KRONE launches world first at CeBIT. By Trevor Kleinert, RCDD, National Sales Manager Premis NET , Manager Fibre Optics Division, KRONE Australia We anticipate as new technologies emerge, network users will quickly realise the benefits provided by KRONE CopperTen’s advanced infrastructure. Cross-section of KRONE CopperTen cable. K RONE’s CopperTen ™ announcement for 10 Gigabit, cost effective, connectivity over copper is the catalyst that will enable a whole new generation of IT applications to transform computing and business. This will accelerate the adoption of realtime IP based applications to the desktop in terms of both bandwidth and number. Applications that have emerged in the last couple of years will become commonplace and be entrenched as key enablers of business. Just as email has in the past five or so years, the next five years will see VoIP, video, security and distributed computing applications such as SANs, server clusters and grid computing become standard in a modern computing environment. Any organisation considering the cabling of new premises or perhaps the re-cabling of an existing site, should give serious thought to the next generation of IT applications which will be a pre-requisite for business over the next five years. Typically cabling plant will be in service in a building for up to 10 years, sometimes longer, the number and nature of IT applications this cable will be required to support will increase and each application employed will also go though a number of generations. If a decision on cabling is being made today, then only the fastest performing and highest quality cabling and connectivity should be considered if bottlenecks and restrictions to business processes are not to be encountered down the track. Post Y2K and the dotcom crash, most IT departments are being forced to do more with less, deploying more and sophisticated applications, but with less resources. Budgets are tight, resources are thin, and skilled IT resources can be scarce or expensive. This has certainly accelerated the use of IP based technologies as a common network infrastructure, for all applications, based on one set of rules, requiring less resources to manage. IT departments invest heavily in servers and mainframes to cater for an ever increasing number of applications, their complexity and intensive resource requirements. Within three to four years these servers become obsolete or lack the necessary computing power as application resource requirements increase relentlessly; then another expensive server investment cycle begins. What organisations need is to break this cycle, they don’t need more expensive CPU processing power, but rather more efficient use of existing CPU processing resource. Against this backdrop are today’s powerful desktop PCs which only use 5 to 10 percent of their capacity most of the time. Organisations need a way to tie all of these idle machines together into a pool of potential computing resource, whilst providing secure and reliable access. If an organisation could use all of its desktop PCs idle CPU cycles to run memory- and processor-intensive tasks they could get more work done faster, possibly get to market faster, and at the same time reduce their IT expenses. The opportunity represented by idle computers has been recognised for some time. In 1985, Miron Livny showed that most workstations are often idle, and proposed a system to harness those idle cycles for useful work. This branch of distributed computing which brings the power of clustered desktop computers to compute intensive applications is known as “grid computing”. A grid enables the massive integration of computer systems to offer performance unattainable by any single machine by co-ordinating distributed computer resources (desktop PCs, workstations, server blades and SANs) through the use of smart systems for scheduling and management. The integration of these systems will be so transparent that users will no more notice they are on a network than motorists pay attention to which cylinder is firing at any given moment. Analagous to an electricity grid where power grid users have and need no knowledge as to the source and location of power stations. To people logging onto a grid, the system will look like just another set of programs running on their office computers, indeed transparent within an 4  NETWORKnews THE NEED FOR SPEED THE GRID Applications for 10 Gigabit UTP technology. By Rob Milne, Business Development Manager, KRONE Australia The grid interconnect will be a key driver for 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking in the horizontal to the desktop. NETWORKnews  5 application. The grid may be a locally established resource to solve business problems, a database application perhaps, it may be made up of a number of grids working jointly across departments, a whole organisation or perhaps across the country or the world connected via high speed internet links. Once the realm of scientific, defence and research organisations, advances in clustered computing power, faster networks, and shared storage are placing the benefits of grid computing within reach of even the most cost-conscious businesses today. But this is not some futuristic technology, financial services firms are using grid computing today to prepare complex models of individual currencies or complete portfolios, and get the results quickly enough to trade based on the model’s predictions. Grid computing is an ideal technology suited to startups who require massive computing power for low cost. Grid computing was a good choice for start-up Butterfly.net, developers of a framework for multiplayer online games. Butterfly.net’s CEO David Levine is bullish on the technology. “In five years, I can’t imagine a company not using a grid,” he says. Mainstream hardware and software vendors are now shipping products to both enable and take advantage of grid computing technologies. Apple’s Xgrid, Oracle’s Database 10 g , Sun’s N1 Grid Engine technology and IBM’s zSeries hardware and grid software tools to name a few. Grid computing is emerging as a viable technology that businesses can use now to extract productivity out of IT resources. According to independent market analyst IDC, grid computing in the manufacturing sector is projected to be a $2.6 billion market opportunity by 2006. IDC projects the total grid opportunity at more than $13 billion by 2007, a compound annual growth rate of 83 percent. Technology Review magazine named grid computing as one of the ten technologies that will change the world. Reliability and performance are critical to a grid environment, if the grid doesn’t perform, then the business case for it certainly diminishes. In a traditional server the “bus” is the interconnect between the CPU, memory, storage and I/O resources. This spans distances of millimetres or centimetres on the server’s main circuit boards. This is a very reliable, low latency interconnect moving vast amounts of data between the servers core components in fractions of a second. In a local grid or distributed computing environment, where a virtual server is created out of tens, hundreds or thousands of interconnected PCs, SANs and other compute resources, the horizontal interconnect, the passive structured cabling and active network components; becomes the new server bus. Latency, bandwidth and reliability become absolutely critical in this new network environment. The grid interconnect will be a key driver for 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking in the horizontal to the desktop. Grid computing will possibly be the killer application for 10 Gigabit networking in the horizontal interconnect and KRONE’s CopperTen solution will be a catalyst to make it mainstream.  Grid computing is an ideal technology suited to startups who require massive computing power for low cost. Grid computing eliminates server redundancy. I f we look back over history, there is an observable cycle out of which has grown the dominance of Ethernet - and which causes the ever-present desire of network managers to ‘future proof’. Moore’s law states that computing power doubles every 18 months. It does not apply directly to active equipment and cabling, but it is a significant driver. Active equipment roughly follows a four-year lifecycle. Now here lies the difficulty for network managers. Computers are being changed out every two to four years; actives every four years - yet the cabling infrastructure is expected to last 10, 15 perhaps even 20 years. So it’s quite evident that structured cabling capability has to lead active equipment deployment. In practice by between four and six years. ALIEN FORCES There are two technical problems to be overcome in the move from Gigabit to 10 Gigabit/s. One is the much greater insertion loss of twisted pair at 625MHz. The other is Alien Crosstalk - signals induced from adjacent cables that cannot readily be cancelled electronically. Developing a cost-effective, practical 10 Gigabit/s system relies heavily on the passive cabling to counteract these two problems. So difficult, in fact, is this task that until November 2003 most people in the cabling industry believed that an unshielded (UTP) approach was not possible and that shielded cabling was the only solution. Indeed, several were proposing to exclude even the possibility of an unshielded (UTP) cabling solution from the up- coming 10 Gigabit/s Ethernet standard. It was only at the eleventh hour, after some of the fastest and most innovative development ever in the structured cabling sector, KRONE’s laboratories produced a real proof-of-concept copper cable. After careful measurement and external validation by one of the active electronics manufacturers - KRONE were able to demonstrate to the IEEE study group that 10 Gigabit/s over 100 metres of UTP was indeed a practical proposition. SHIELDED OR UNSHIELDED From the late 80s - perhaps earlier - there has been disagreement in the industry and around the world as to whether shielded or unshielded cabling solutions are the best, with many companies backing one horse or the other - and then trying to convince the market that theirs’ is the only way. KRONE, on the other hand, as a major global player, has always recognised that both are used in different situations and that whilst STP/FTP might be the solution of choice in some markets, UTP will be preferred in the majority of the markets. Whilst custom and practice in Germany and central European countries is to use shielded solutions, most of the world is UTP-centric. In fact, in 80 percent of the world, the skillbase of network designers and installers is in unshielded twisted pair technology and systems. This is why KRONE worked against almost impossible odds to prove to the industry that a UTP implementation of 10 Gigabit/s was possible. Otherwise, over the coming years, the industry would have found a situation where every installer would have had to be re-trained and up-skilled to be able to undertake the more complex, and far less forgiving task of installing shielded systems. This in turn would have 6  NETWORKnews 10 GIGABIT/S COPPER: THE FACTS Dispelling the myths surrounding the new 10 Gigabit UTP phenomenon. By Glen Johnston, Manager Marketing and Product Development, KRONE Australia Generally the structured cabling solution is needed four to six years before the relevant Ethernet ports are installed in bulk. added three extra cost elements into the 10 Gigabit/s solution - the higher cost of screened cables, the higher labour costs of slower installation and the on-cost of installer re-training. But let’s be clear. KRONE is not saying that UTP is the only solution. We always develop shielded solutions so that KRONE users worldwide have choice. PROPHETS OF DOOM Already there are prophets of doom claiming that KRONE is being premature, signalling the launch of a 10 Gigabit copper cable before there is even a draft standard. Let’s take a reality check from history. In the late 80s IBM Type 1 shielded cable and 10BASE-2 and 10BASE-5 co-ax users migrated in their droves to UTP. In fact, some 30 percent of the market had chosen to install UTP before there was a UTP standard. A little later - even though a standard (10BASE-T4) existed to carry 100 Mbit/s Ethernet over Category 3 - users saw that there was a new emerging technology now called “old Category 5”. Despite the fact that the cable was 30 to 40 percent more expensive, large numbers of users chose to install it because they recognised that Category 3 would go no further. Did the market wait for a ratified international Category 5 standard? Of course not. By 1999, 40 percent of the market was buying the new “pre- standard” Category 5 cables (Category 5e in North America) and 20 percent of switch ports were Gigabit. The cycle continues with Category 6 - which the world has been installing for the last four or five years. Yet there was no ratified standard until 2002. CAN’T WAIT. WON’T WAIT Network managers now know that 10 Gigabit/s Ethernet is happening. They can expect to see cabling systems this year that will support a 10 Gigabit/s 100 metre copper channel. And in 2005 it is already estimated that 7 percent of switch ports will ship as 10 Gigabit/s Ethernet. By 2007 we can expect to see a large proportion of cabling installs being copper and 20 percent of switched ports being 10 Gigabit/s. If they don’t need to deploy a new network or extend their existing one, there’s a lot to be said for waiting. But in reality few network managers have static networks. EARLY ADOPTER RISK As ever, being an early adopter is not without risk. For example, a number of other cable and connector manufacturers have been promoting “Category 6e” products that have focused on improving the internal electrical performance of cables and connectors. As it turns out, these “improvements” have proved to be exactly the opposite when it comes to alien crosstalk - the killer factor for 10 Gigabit/s. Instead, “augmented Category 6” - on which the KRONE copper solution is based - is the current clear favourite. THE BOTTOM LINE 10 Gigabit/s Ethernet over twisted pair copper is certain to become a standard. A structured cabling solution is needed. Generally the structured cabling solution is needed four to six years before the relevant Ethernet ports are installed in bulk. Network managers need workable solutions as early as possible. Many cannot afford to wait for ratified standards. KRONE’s copper solution will offer users the latest technology based on the latest information. It outperforms the requirements of all the Ethernet solutions currently being studied. There is always a risk in deploying a pre-standard solution. Often there is a bigger risk in not trying to future- proof a network installation. Ultimately KRONE believes that customers should be offered choices and the best possible information to help them make an educated decision based on their individual circumstances and aspirations.  F or years, copper UTP solutions have been the preferred medium over which most Local Area Networks communicate. And in this same period, a debate has raged as to when fibre would displace copper as the preferred infrastructure. Several years ago Gigabit Ethernet seemed like a pipe dream, yet today Gigabit switch port sales have overtaken 10/100BaseT of old. Fibre, has for years, led the Ethernet industry forward in port speed progression. So if fibre is one step ahead, doesn’t it replace copper? The answer is quite simple. To convert electrons to photons and then back to electrons adds cost (from an active hardware perspective). This makes the cost of fibre optic active hardware as much as six times more expensive per port today than the equivalent speed copper UTP solution on Gigabit Ethernet switch ports. With Ethernet now the winner of the horizontal desktop LAN protocol war, a pattern has arisen with regards to transportation speeds. Migration from 10BaseT to 100BaseT and now Gigabit Ethernet (1000BaseT), the transportation speed has always progressed tenfold. Where we are today, with regards to protocol advancement, is no different. Ten Gigabit Ethernet is alive and breathing today in the form of fibre optics. The year 2003, particularly the last quarter, was pivotal in the old question of “when will copper reach its limit”? By the title of this paper you might surmise, once again, someone has figured out a way to produce a copper networking solution to support 10 Gigabit. The cabling industry and TIA/EIA don’t drive the electrical parameters needed to run transmission protocols. It is the IEEE who develops proposed protocols, understands what is needed from an electrical standpoint and then gives the cabling standards bodies responsibility of developing measurable parameters for cable (with the possible exception of Category 6 – See “The Future of UTP” for a better understanding). This was no exception for 10 Gigabit Ethernet. An IEEE 802.3 study group was formed to discuss how best to approach running 10 Gigabit transmission over a copper infrastructure. This group is composed of representatives from several different aspects of the networking community, such as chip manufacturers, hardware manufacturers and cabling/connectivity manufacturers. The 10GBaseT working group discussions include which protocol encoding will be used, how it relates to the needed bandwidth from the cabling infrastructure (what the frequency range is) and what measurement of Shannon’s Capacity is needed to support them. A definition of Shannon’s law is given below. The value for the capacity is measured in bits per second. To achieve 10Gbps of transmission, a Shannon’s capacity of >18Gbps is required from the cabling solution. The additional capacity over the desired data rate is due to the amount of bandwidth used within the active hardware noise parameters i.e. Jitter, Quantisation, etc. SHANNON’S LAW (CAPACITY) It is one thing to understand how this law works, but another to meet the much needed channel capacities required to run protocols. That being said, the following is the basic formula for understanding how efficiently a cable can transmit data at different rates. Concerning a communications channel: the formula that relates bandwidth in Hertz, to information carrying capacity in bits per second. Formally: Q = B log2 (1 + S) Where Q is the information carrying capacity (ICC), B is the bandwidth and S is the signal-to-noise ratio. This expression shows that the ICC is proportional to the bandwidth, but is not identical to it. The frequencies needed to support the different proposed encoding schemes (to achieve a full 10 Gigabits) were now extending out as far as 625MHz. It quickly became evident that the signal to noise ratio within a cabling solution could be predicted, and therefore, cancelled out within the active electronics. But a random noise source, Alien Crosstalk, also now existed from outside the cable. This noise source would need to be measured and reduced to achieve the Shannon’s Capacity requirements of the cabling solution. 8  NETWORKnews KRONE’s CopperTen ™ Cabling Solution. MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE by Peter Meijer, JP BE MSc, RCDD, Technical Training Manager and Industry Liaison, KRONE Australia You may be aware of how the industry currently prevents the effects of crosstalk within cables. The pairs within a single cable are twisted at different rates (as the different colours in the cable would indicate). These different rates are used in an effort to minimise the crosstalk between pairs along parallel runs. While this works well within the cable, it doesn’t do much for cable-to-cable crosstalk (Alien Crosstalk). Alien Crosstalk is quite simply the amount of noise measured on a pair within a cable induced from the pairs in an adjacent cable. This is not only a concern for different twist lay pairs between cables, but more so between same twist lay pairs between adjacent cables. Initial testing on existing Category 6 UTP cable designs quickly showed that the rationale behind reducing the impact of crosstalk between pairs, within a cable, could not support Alien Crosstalk requirements. Twist lay variation and controlled distances between the pairs have been standard design practice for achieving Category 6 compliance. While the distance between pairs can be controlled within a cable jacket, it could not be controlled between same lay length pairs on adjacent cables. Testing to Shannon’s Capacity on existing Category 6 UTP solutions only yielded results in the 5Gbps range. The results achieved previously did not provide the needed additional throughput to allow for active electronic anomalies. This was a far cry from the desired 18Gbps. Therefore posing the question: Is there a UTP solution capable of achieving the needed Alien Crosstalk requirements or would fibre finally rule the day? The August 2003 meeting of the 10GBASE-T working group would yield three main proposals as a result. 1. Lower the data rates to 2.5Gbps for Category 6 UTP. This would be the first time fibre would not be matched in speed and that a tenfold increase in speed would not be achieved. 2. Reduce the length of the supported channel to 55m from the industry standard 100m for Category 6 UTP. This would greatly impact the flexibility of the cabling plant, considering most NETWORKnews  9 Figure 1. Example of a centre cable being impacted by the adjacent 6 cables in the bundle. Figure 3. The star filler used within several Category 6 cable designs increases and controls the distance between pairs. Figure 2. Example of how cables with same twist lays impact one another. Figure 4. While the distance between pairs within the same cable is maintained, the distance between same lay lengths on adjacent cables is still compromised. facilities are designed with the 100m distance incorporated into the floor plans. 3. Use shielded solutions and abandon UTP as a transport medium for 10 Gigabit. This would mean returning to ScTP/FTP type solutions, requiring additional labour, product cost and grounding, as well as space. Category 5e would also be dropped as a proposed transport medium entirely. The active hardware and chip manufacturers would now be faced with a lesser solution than the already available fibre optic solution. And, questions would now be raised concerning the value of producing such active hardware to support transmission rates that only increased by 2.5 times, or if distance limitations of 55m were really worthwhile? Would the additional cost of installing a shielded solution outweigh the benefits in cost for the active components? The next meeting of the working group would be pivotal in addressing the above questions. UTP could very well have reached its limit. KRONE’S INNOVATION: COPPERTEN™ A momentous challenge was now presented. How could a UTP cable achieve the desired Shannon’s Capacity of >18Gbps and maintain the 100m distances to which the industry has become accustomed while remaining within normal size constraints? In response to the challenge, KRONE’s research and development team quickly went to work. Working within a very short developmental timeframe several innovative ideas were presented, tested and then put into production. As a world first, the KRONE R&D team presented a solution to the 10 Gigabit, 100m UTP problem. ADDRESSING PAIR SEPARATION With standard Category 6 cable construction the pair separation within the cable is counter productive for pair separation between cables. The often-used star filler pushed the pairs within the cable as close to the jacket as possible leaving same pair combinations between cables susceptible to high levels of Alien Crosstalk. With KRONE’s new design of CopperTen ™ cable, the pairs are now kept apart by creating a higher degree of separation through a unique oblique star filler design. Crowned high points are designed into the elliptical filler to push the cables away from one another within the bundle in a spiral helix. This is very similar to a rotating cam lobe. Due to the oblique shape of the star, the pairs remain close to the centre, while remaining off-centre as the cable spirals along its length, creating a random oscillating separation effect. 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Members are no longer required to enter their membership number and password to access the majority of invaluable information on the Club KRONE website You... accordance with the certification requirements The newly installed KRONE cabling system is now successfully providing increased performance to the Department’s network of computers, printers and telephones within the Townsville office To date NRM&E have been extremely happy with the KRONE product’s performance Mr S SECURITY ISSUES CLUB KRONE UPDATE D AFTER BEFORE “The appearance of the new HIGHBAND 25... improvements are With KRONE s CopperTen cabling system the industry has now taken that next leap Copper UTP has been given another lease on life to support the next future proofing step in a 10 Gigabit transport protocol The cost of active hardware will remain in check and be cost effective for future advancements in data transfer rate speeds NETWORKnews 11 STYLISH HIGHBAND 25 ELIMINATES ® KRONE s HIGHBAND... had also become an unruly tangle to try and maintain Chris Bedson, NRM&E’s IT Manager, commented, “With its hard-wiring of the cabling, the KRONE product solution offered the neat, workable racks we needed, providing more control and minimising users swapping patch leads in and out.” 12 NETWORKnews In addition, the Department also wanted to be able to update their existing system for VoIP capabilities,... ensure all network operations were still up and running whilst the new system was being installed The total installation included 600 outlets, approximately 30,000 metres of Category 6 UTP cable and 15 300 pair HIGHBAND 25 kits The project ran smoothly and was completed to schedule in April 2004 The Department were particularly impressed by the on-site supervision of the contracted installers by KRONE, ... security of the network ” 14 NETWORKnews Previously, BMA had been using a combination of Category 3 and Category 5 solutions at their various mine sites As a result, they were looking to upgrade their existing systems to provide increased performance and communications capabilities for these remote locations BMA insisted on a solution that could provide them with a secure system and KRONE s unique HIGHBAND... and standards, meant Hoban Smith Industries had to work side-by-side with BMA personnel to install the product in these challenging locations, requiring particular attention to installation variables such as mechanical protection, segregation, heat and dust Some locations also required the integration of the KRONE product with VoIP and radio networks for delivery of data and voice to extremely remote... 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