PLUS . . . UNLEASHING THE POWER OF THE NETWORK! GOING THE WHOLE NINE YARDS KRONE SAILS THE HIGH SEAS! Vol11 No2 2004 O O O O CopperTen ™ O ver the past quarter, KRONE has focused on taking our message to the marketplace. Kicking off with a national roadshow in March, we took to the road in an effort to bring our latest technologies and innovations to you. Thank you to those of you who were able to attend and spare the time to learn more about KRONE’s latest developments. I’m pleased to announce CopperTen ™ , the world’s first augmented Category 6 structured cabling system with the necessary characteristics to enable 10 Gigabit UTP transmission over a full 100 metres. By serving-up a more cost effective and easier to install solution to fibre optics or shielded cabling, KRONE will once again revolutionise the future of networking forever. Stay tuned for further details on the release of this exciting development. On page 4 of this issue, Robert Milne reviews the rapid emergence of IP technologies and explains the importance of a solid high-quality cabling installation in next generation networks. Continuing on the theme of emerging technologies, Peter Meijer, our Technical Training Manager and Industry Liaison, takes us through the pros and cons of 10 Gigabit Ethernet on page 8. Also inside, we look at several customer solutions including popular National Soccer League Club, Marconi. A report on the new cabling standard for the Catholic Schools Office. As well as the successful deployment of an innovative HIGHBAND ® 25 system at Utah’s State University and the rather challenging and somewhat unique installation on-board a seismic research vessel. Our recent attendance at the Cisco Networkers conference in Brisbane continues our efforts to bring our message to you. More details on what was a very successful event can be found on page 3. KRONE will also be attending Australia’s major ICT event, CeBIT Australia in May. Our team of sales executives and product specialists will be on hand to explain our latest technologies and answer any queries you may have. Further information on the CeBIT exhibition can be found on page 16. We look forward to seeing you out in the marketplace. Sincerely Craig Jones CEO 2 \ NETWORKnews BREAKING THE WORLD LAN-SPEED RECORD Bringing you the latest in emerging high-performance technologies Customer Stories 6 KRONE Sails the High Seas! 10 New Network Kicks a Goal for Club Marconi 12 Broken Bay Harmonises Diocese Network 14 HIGHBAND 25 Becomes Big Man on Campus Standards Update 8 10GB Ethernet on Optical Fibre KRONE News 3 Unleashing the Power of the Network 3 CopperTen A World First!! 16 World First At CeBIT '04 16 Getting Their Feet Wet Business Articles 4 Going the Whole Nine Yards Website: krone.com.au Email: kronehlp@krone.com.au Editor: Joanna Parsons Art Direction: Nora Collins Copyright © 2001 KRONE (Australia) Holdings Pty. Limited CONTENTS NETWORKnews \ 3 By Trevor Kleinert, RCDD, National Sales Manager Premis NET , Manager Fibre Optics Division, KRONE Australia A s a registered Cisco ® partner, KRONE attended and exhibited at Cisco’s premier event held in Brisbane for customers and partners, the 12th annual Networkers Conference, 2004. Networkers provided the ideal opportunity and forum for all people involved in the use, implementation and configuration of Cisco products to gain in-depth knowledge of Cisco’s latest products and technologies. With 900+ delegates, 40 exhibitors, over 70 training sessions and presentations provided on the hottest networking topics, combined with the opportunity to network with our peers, colleagues and other partners, this was the industry event to attend! The theme of the conference was “The Power of the Network. Now”. The keynote speakers outlined how networks can enable breakthrough productivity in the order of 25% to 30% improvement. Cisco also outlined their technology vision for the next three to five years based on the building and securing of the intelligent information network. It was outlined how through a systems approach, greater capability and intelligence would be migrated to the network layer to evolve an intelligent and unified network infrastructure. For KRONE, at the very base of the network pyramid providing layer one connectivity solutions, this reinforces the need for product of the highest quality and performance, as only KRONE can provide. KRONE products providing for a solid foundation enabling Cisco and its customers to realise this powerful, connected network vision. With the KRONE range on display, this message was reinforced through the delegates high level of interest in our HIGHBAND ® 25 Category 6 and fibre connectivity products. Each of these representing the highest quality products in each market segment. HIGHBAND 25 utilising Patch By Exception being an ideal solution for organisations wishing to implement VoIP to save money in space, management, patch cordage, rack equipment whilst ensuring maximum performance and zero bit errors to prevent issues with voice quality. Further KRONE's CopperTen, 10Gb solution sparked interest from a number of Cisco engineers who see this technology allowing for the creation of a new generation of high speed, cost effective copper based products using current RJ45 connectivity, without the need to move to an expensive Cat7, Terra connected product range. All in all a great show, great party (for all the Lara Croft fans ) and with a concluding messaging from Nando Parrado, who told the compelling story of survival on the mountain peaks of the Andes, live for Now! Q By Rob Milne, Business Development Manager, KRONE Australia During the month of March, KRONE kicked off its national Generation NEXT 04 Roadshow. Aimed at installers, end users, consultants and distributors, the roadshows were designed to share KRONE’s latest innovations and industry news with the marketplace. The roadshows proved to be a great success with strong audience participation in each of the major capital cities. Thank you to those of you who were able to attend and provide us with positive feedback on KRONE’s latest technologies. This was a great opportunity to provide customers with an overview of the products KRONE has recently introduced into the market, namely the new style Category 6 FMK ™ Jack, Category 6 Patch Panel, Category 6 Angled Patch Panel, Fibre-in-a-Box ™ and the robust IP67 industrial range. Rob Milne, KRONE Australia’s Business Development Manager, was able to present audiences with an interesting overview on the changing marketplace from an IT Manager’s perspective, covering off the continuing prevalence of IP convergence. Peter Meijer, our Technical Training Manager and Industry Liaison informed attendees on the latest developments regarding 10 Gigabit applications and the imminent release of our CopperTen ™ solution. CopperTen is the word’s first augmented structured cabling solution capable of transmitting 10 Gigabit Ethernet over a full 100 metre channel. The Generation NEXT 04 Roadshow provided our customers with a preview of this revolutionary new technology to be unveiled at CeBIT in May. Q CopperTen ™ A WORLD FIRST!! UNLEASHING THE POWER OF THE NETWORK! A s preparations are made for the Athens Olympics, it does not seem so long ago when Sydney was getting ready for its turn on the international stage. However, in terms of IT systems and network technologies, four years appears to be almost a lifetime! Consider the current state of voice and data networks, and the applications they support, compared to that of four years ago. The most significant change has been the expansion of IP based technologies from predominantly supporting data and now to technologies as diverse as voice, video, storage, security and building automation; and there are others currently under development. How many people had heard of the VoIP word four years ago? Who would have thought that Cisco ® would be vying for number one spot as a telephone systems provider? The main driver behind this rapid technological shift has been the expansion of application diversity and functionality; with the internet at the centre. Business collaboration, supply chain communication and an increase in economic “velocity” have been key to bringing about these changes. But as applications become more complex and diverse, the need to reduce the cost of supporting, managing and deploying them is also under considerable pressure; so as to reduce the costs of doing business. Enter IP, or more correctly TCP/IP, as the network transport layer, or the glue beneath the applications. IP offers the advantage of one technology, one set of rules and one basis of knowledge required by IT people who implement, support and operate modern applications. Contrast this against the diverse knowledge requirements of disparate, older technologies like analogue voice, video, direct attach storage, requiring individual specialisation in each technology; support costs of which IT departments today can ill afford. With the move to IP based networking technologies has been the corresponding impact on the underlying cabling and connectivity infrastructure. In the past, whilst using the same connectivity components, different network topologies were deployed. Separate networks were deployed for voice and data (see fig. OLD). This also provided for a measure of redundancy if a problem occurred on either network. Today however for a converged IP network there is only one technology, one protocol and one network! 4 \ NETWORKnews GOING THE WHOLE NINE YARDS Create a next generation IP converged network with ten nines reliability. By Rob Milne, Business Development Manager, KRONE Australia Traditional, analogue TDM voice networks had evolved to a point where 99.999% availability and reliability was the norm. Contrast this with a typical data network where 99.9% is standard. What does 99.999% reliability mean? It means absolute minimum downtime in terms of calls being dropped, inability to place calls or where call quality is poor to the point of being untenable. Five nines equates to less that 5.26 minutes of downtime in a year of operation. Clearly this is an admirable target, and in mission critical, realtime applications such as voice networks; a necessity. For a data network based on TCP/IP, the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) ensures resilience in the data being able to travel from its source to the intended destination and arrive in the form it was sent. If a packet is dropped due to a network problem or congestion, then it will be re-transmitted until it arrives correctly at its destination, just as it left. This means that for a data application, continual packet drops and retransmissions will manifest themselves in an application that appears to be running slower, but nevertheless still functioning. For a realtime voice network running over TCP/IP however, where a conversation is broken up over many packets, packet loss will directly result in a loss of voice quality, after all there is only so much of an ongoing conversation which can be re-transmitted before a delay is noticed by both parties at each end of the call. Sub-standard installation practices, low quality and poorly matched cable and components, will cause more network faults than you would ever wish to trouble-shoot. Such faults will produce data errors, re- transmissions and collisions as well as other (apparently) transparent problems, resulting in what we all know as a “slow” network for applications. For voice and video, however loss of quality to the point of failure will be the result. Whilst an IP network may appear to be 100% “up” to a data application, it may not be delivering good IP telephony performance if there is packet loss and excessive delays affecting voice quality and reliability. Whilst a converged IP network can deliver tremendous savings in application integration, management and support, nevertheless they are complex systems and there is much upfront investment involved in the initial design and installation of the network environment. When problems occur many network layers may need to be traversed to diagnose and fix the problem. It would be an IT manager’s nightmare to spend many hours and consulting dollars to find a faulty connector or patch cord to be the culprit. Particularly if someone had tried to save a dollar by buying an inferior quality cord. Before implementing your next generation converged IP network, consider carefully the foundation you will build it upon. If you want five nines (99.999%) reliability, the professional installation of a standards compliant, TrueNet ® network is the answer. Only TrueNet offers a guarantee of a zero bit error rate, essential to ensure errors are not incurred from the structured cabling system employed. Other cabling warranties offer “application assurance”. All this really means is that the link light will go on. It does not ensure that the network will run efficiently. With TrueNet, you can be assured that your new cabling system channel will not cause bit errors which rob your data applications of throughput or your IP voice/video system of quality. TrueNet offers this remarkable guarantee because it is designed and tested using active network technology that can evaluate the performance of a new cabling system as if there were a live network in place. This ensures that not only the TIA/EIA passive criteria are met, but also the IEEE specifications, which are critical for throughput performance. Testing parameters included are jitter, CRC errors and oversized/undersized packets, parameters that are absolutely critical to ensure quality, IP telephony. Zero bit errors in the warranty refers to an error rate of 10-12th, or 99.99999999% (ten nines reliability), far surpassing the industry acceptance of five nines! Q NETWORKnews \ 5 Diagrams Top: Impedence mismatched channel. Bottom: TrueNet impedence matched channel. U pgrading the cabling infrastructure of a ship would probably be classed by most installers as an unusual project. But one that was site unseen and still off-shore at the time of tender, with only a five day window to complete an entire refit, over the Australia Day long weekend might even be considered by some as ‘mission impossible’. This was the task awaiting Total Cabling Solutions in January 2004 as the Veritas Viking II approached Fremantle Harbour in Perth for an important engine and IT upgrade prior to commencing contractual operations in Australian waters. Veritas DGC Inc ,headquartered in Houston, are a major provider of land, transition zone and marine- based seismic data acquisition, seismic data processing, and multi-client data sales to the petroleum industry. With over 36 years of operating experience and more than 3000 employees in 19 countries on six continents, Veritas is considered a leader in advanced geophysical technologies. Prior to the Viking II’s arrival in Perth, Veritas were seeking a cabling contractor in Western Australia to install a structured cabling system on board the Viking II whilst in dock at Fremantle within the tight deadline of five days. At 306 feet long and 72 feet wide, the Veritas Viking II is considered to be one of the largest, most powerful and technically advanced seismic vessels in the industry today. The Veritas Viking II contains the latest recording system and communications technologies with the cable upgrade providing a vital link in maintaining the performance required to operate such high-level 2D, 3D and 4D marine acquisition programs. KRONE endorsed installer, Total Cabling Solutions, were successful in securing the project. Veritas chose Total Cabling Solutions based on their prior experience in completing complex installations and proven ability to undertake a project within a tight deadline. Veritas were also impressed with the company’s outstanding track record. As winners of various industry accolades including the NECA and ECA awards and BRW Magazine’s Fast 100, Total Cabling Solutions have an enviable reputation. With a lead time of approximately one-and-a-half weeks, pre-planning would prove to be a crucial factor in completing the installation on time due to the range of products required, many of which needed to be ordered in advance from NSW. With the client off shore, all of Total Cabling Solutions correspondence regarding the project was conducted via email or in some instances via telephone calls to Veritas’ Texas office at 2am Perth time. Total Cabling Solutions presented the KRONE solution to Veritas based on availability and local support, informing the Veritas engineers that KRONE were the only manufacturer that would be able to 6 \ NETWORKnews KRONE SAILS THE HIGH SEAS! KRONE cable supports seismic research during recent IT upgrade of Veritas DGC’s Viking II. By Carl Holmes, WA Sales Executive, KRONE Australia KRONE were the only manufacturer that would be able to guarantee delivery of the product within the time constraints imposed. guarantee delivery of the product within the time constraints imposed. Veritas specifications insisted on a solution that comprised of marine grade cable. To meet these requirements, Total Cabling Solutions selected KRONE Premis NET ® for the installation. Upon receiving Veritas’ notification to proceed with the project, Total Cabling Solutions worked quickly with the KRONE office in Perth to ensure that all products were delivered in preparation for the Viking II’s arrival. On Thursday 22 January, the Veritas Viking II docked at Fremantle Harbour and Total Cabling Solutions were able to finally meet their client. The clock was now ticking in earnest with only five days in which to complete the entire installation. Works initially proceeded as planned, however the actual size of the project increased as a number of on site issues became apparent only after the ship had docked, such as additional cable runs and several technical revisions. Total Cabling Solutions, Director, Brad Giles commented, “The logistics of operating within a marine environment along with a major technical overhaul of the Viking II’s IT systems proved to be a most challenging task”. As part of an overall package, Total Cabling Solutions were also able to provide Veritas with a large number of network printers and copiers through its active equipment division Exabit Communication. The entire project consisted of approximately 700 Category 5e and Category 6 terminations, and shielded and coax installations. To date, Veritas have been very happy with the performance provided by the KRONE solution. Peter Sack, Vessel Support Manager highlighted the product’s robust exterior stating that it was well built. Veritas staff were also said to be impressed by the KRONE Masterminder’s rear cable management system. Mr Sack stated that Veritas would now be considering KRONE for future installations in their additional vessels. Overall it was another successful collaboration and as they say in the movies mission accomplished! Q NETWORKnews \ 7 By Peter Meijer, JP BE MSc, RCDD, Technical Training Manager and Industry Liaison, KRONE Australia Well, to start with, it is all about optical fibre, not copper as the transmission medium. If we go back a little in time, fibre was the preserve of the carriers and Wide Area Network. It was singlemode, actives were expensive and it could only be considered for long-haul. Then came FDDI (Fibre Distributed Data Interface) with its much lower overall cost using multimode fibre capable of being driven by LEDs. With the electronics being much cheaper it became possible to effectively deploy fibre in the LAN backbone and campus. As Ethernet took its grip of the copper LAN, so too it vied with FDDI, ATM, SDM and SONET in the fibre LAN. See Diagram: The Evolution of Ethernet, below. WHY 10 GBPS? Until recently, there was no data-rate compatibility between Ethernet in the LAN and MAN/WAN protocols. Fibre in the LAN has operated at 10/100 Mbps Ethernet, 1Gbps Ethernet, 155/622 Mbps ATM or 100 Mpbs FDDI. Fibre in the MAN and WAN meanwhile has operated at totally different speeds - 45 Mbps DS-3, 155 Mbps OC-3, 622 Mbps OC-12/STM4 and 2.5 Gbps OC-48. All completely different rates to the LAN, meaning rate adaption is needed from LAN to MAN/WAN. When looking at the options after 1 Gbps the IEEE and the Ethernet Alliance aimed to achieve a point of ‘rate commonality’ with the MAN/WAN networks, so that expensive rate adaptation hardware could be dispensed with, allowing the much cheaper Ethernet cost model to be deployed in these networks as well as the LAN. The obvious meeting point was 10 Gigabit/s which, give or take a couple of bps, is the rate of the OC-192 SDH/SONET tributary found throughout long-haul networks. This was very much the deciding factor in skipping 2.5 Gbps. NOT QUITE SO SIMPLE As work progressed on the development of the 1 Gbps Ethernet fibre standard it became apparent that there were some difficulties with the capabilities of legacy multimode fibre if acceptable transmission distances were to be achieved. Legacy multimode fibre is the name given to the optical fibre cable installed in previous years using the 62.5 µm and 50 µm core diameters and are today classified as OM1 and OM2 type cables. Firstly LEDs could not switch on and off fast enough for operating speeds past 622 Mbps, so lasers had to be used instead. Whilst theory had shown that the modal bandwidth (the number of MHz bandwidth times the channel length in km) should have been enough to support a 300m channel - when engineers tested legacy multimode fibres using a laser source instead of a LED, the achievable modal bandwidth fell quite significantly, to 160 MHz.km, limiting the achievable channel length. To actually achieve 10 Gpbs over multimode fibre, new specifications had to be drawn up for the transmitter launch conditions, the fibre optic receiver bandwidth and the fibre cable characteristics. 8 \ NETWORKnews 10GB ETHERNET ON OPTICAL FIBRE 10 Gigabit Ethernet - IEEE 802.3ae - is ratified as a standard and could be heading to a backbone near you! What’s it all about - and what will it mean for network designers, specifiers and installers? Factory assembled PTOF (Pre-Terminated Optical Fibre) become the best method of assuring minimal losses. GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS. WHICH FIRST? So what are the implications of this when looking at upgrading to 10 Gbps? Sadly, they are that legacy multimode fibre is range limited to a very short distance at 10 Gbps - still useable for a few backbone applications, but not for the majority, nor for campus links where 100s of metres is usually the required lengths. The prognosis was not good, since the other option of using singlemode fibre is a high cost one because high cost lasers had to be used instead of the newer cheaper VCSEL lasers. The good news is that a solution has emerged in the new specifications for multimode fibre called OM3. This new category of multimode fibre has an effective modal bandwidth of 2000 MHz.km (compared to 160 MHz.km for legacy multimode fibre) at 850nm excitation frequency and when used with the low cost VCSEL laser diodes readily achieves 300m channel distances. The 10 Gpbs Ethernet standard, by the way, is good for distances up to 30km although this requires carrier grade single mode fibre operating at 1550nm. But, as you can see this means that Ethernet can now be used as a MAN and WAN protocol, not just in the LAN. Indeed one of the major benefits that will come from the 10 Gbps Ethernet standard is that the same transporters and regenerators can be used for SONET, SDH and Ethernet - and because manufacturing volumes will be much higher, cost should fall. NETWORK PLANNING The reduced modal bandwidth of legacy multimode fibre when laser excited has undoubtedly put a spanner in the works of some network upgrade plans - if not at 1 Gbps, then almost definitely at 10 Gbps upgrade. There are two options: legacy multimode fibre, with its 160 MHz.km modal bandwidth at 850nm can be retained and the electronics upgraded to conventional, but much more expensive, lasers at 1300nm where it achieves 500 MHz.km. But this is at best a short term fix. The second option is to upgrade not just the optoelectronics but the fibre itself, either to singlemode or to the new OM3 multimode. The way in which the 10 Gbps signal is transmitted is also important. xWDM (course or wide or other wave division multiplex) allows say four 2.5Gbps channels (3.125 Gbps using 8B/10B coding). INSTALLATION CONSIDERATIONS Power budgets are tighter at 10 Gbps, around a mere 2.5 dB for the whole channel, not the 12+ dB you’re used to with 10/100 Mbps Ethernet on fibre. To make matters worse designers should include a safety margin allowance for additional dispersion losses in the fibre over and above its normal attenuation. So the power budget would become: Channel Power Budget = fibre attenuation and connector(s) attenuation + safety margin. This means that factory assembled PTOF (pre- terminated optical fibre) become the best method of assuring minimal losses in your power budget. PTOF is the installers nominated fibre - OM3 recommended for 10 GBE, or OM2 and OM1 for lower transfer speed protocols - factory terminated, polished and tested with the installers nominated connectors like SC or ST or other. For those trained installers capable of doing so, fusion splices with factory polished pig-tails rather than site-polished connectors should be used where possible, not only to reduce losses but also reflections that can cause laser stability problems. Connections where they are assembled and polished on-site need to be of the very low-loss type with ceramic ferruled connectors and ceramic-sleeved adaptors. Laser safety precautions need to be taken throughout the installation and again, to reduce losses and maintain laser stability, cleanliness at mating surfaces is essential. Q NETWORKnews \ 9 Sadly legacy multimode fibre is range limited to a very short distance at 10Gbps The good news is that a solution has emerged in the new specifications for multimode fibre called OM3. C lub Marconi was established in 1958 in the Sydney suburb of Bossley Park, near Fairfield. Its name was chosen to commemorate the work of the Italian scientist, Guglielmo Marconi, who first connected Australia to the world via radio in 1930. Contrary to its origin of simply serving an Italian community, the Club Marconi of 2004 provides sporting, entertainment, educational and social facilities for a whole community of varying cultures and origins. Located on 31 acres of parkland and playing fields, Club Marconi is considered to be the most cosmopolitan club in Australia. It has over 23,000 members representing 18 nationalities and over 24 different languages plus a team of 430 staff. Unlike many other organisations, the feeling of welcoming and satisfying diverse cultures in one Club, was inherited from its founders and remains today as motivation to continue its growth and success. Club Marconi had long outgrown its existing structured cabling system and in an effort to keep up with the needs of both club and community, it became apparent that an upgrade would be required. On initial investigation it was discovered that the Club had no real structured wiring solution, more a hash of different cabling products that had been installed over a long period of time. This existing system had not been supported in anyway and was frequently running parallel with power cables. According to HHDI, the Club’s IT consultants, this previous method of installation was not only messy, but was responsible for poor network performance and a system experiencing continual problems. As a result, in late 2003, Club Marconi commissioned KRONE endorsed installer, The Faraday Group, to design and implement a structured cabling system that would suit both their current and future needs. Club Marconi’s new system would need to be future proof, flexible to change and cost effective. With over 40 year’s experience in the industry, Faraday were chosen by Club Marconi for their expertise and competitive pricing. Faraday detailed a KRONE Premis NET ® Category 5 cabling solution for Club Marconi, comprising HIGHWAY ® patch panels, patch cord minders, HIGHWAY surface mounted outlets and Premis NET Category 5 cable. Faraday chose the KRONE solution predominantly based on ease of installation, Chris Carman, Faraday’s Project Manager commented “We have used other brands of UTP cable, patch panels and outlets before 10 \ NETWORKnews NEW NETWORK KICKS KRONE cable upgrade connects Australia’s most cosmopolitan club community. By Alex Price, NSW Sales Engineer, KRONE Australia “We have used other brands of UTP cable, patch panels and outlets before but have always found KRONE Category 5 and Category 6 components to be the most user-friendly.” Chris Carman, Project Manager, Faraday and Club Marconi’s new system. [...]... was our very first all KRONE application We’ve since decided to convert the entire campus over to a KRONE end-to-end solution KRONE has been the most responsive manufacturer in the industry, carefully listening to all the needs of their customers That’s the difference.” Associate contribution by David Yanish, Marketing Manager, KRONE Inc NETWORKnews 15 GETTING THEIR FEET WET KRONE sponsors major Australian... the stadium’s press areas and corporate boxes NETWORKnews 11 BROKEN BAY HARMONISES Catholic Schools Office implements new information technology initiatives and selects KRONE as departmental standard throughout Broken Bay Diocese T By James Oliver, NSW Sales Executive, KRONE Australia KRONE installation at Our Lady of the Rosary, Wyoming NSW 12 NETWORKnews he Catholic Schools Office (CSO) of the Diocese... and collectively we had our doubts, but KRONE really did deliver.” Once the KRONE end-to-end system was determined to be the best choice for the university, the team sat down with KRONE s technical design team to settle on the best Category 6 connectivity products for their needs and applications After careful consideration of numerous options, the team selected KRONE s new Category 6 HIGHBAND 25 termination... Club Marconi commented on the high-level of commitment shown by KRONE In particular KRONE s 15-year guarantee and the support provided during the planning and installation stages Nearly every department within Marconi’s social and soccer clubs is now experiencing the benefits of the new KRONE cabling infrastructure The system is responsible for supplying both voice and network applications to administration,... last year The KRONE stand (B20) will be in Hall 3 of the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour We look forward to seeing you there HEAD OFFICE 2 Hereford Street BERKELEY VALE NSW 2261 PO Box 335 WYONG NSW 2259 Ph: (02) 4389 5000 Fax: (02) 4388 4499 KRONE NSW Ph: (02) 8748 9500 KRONE VIC/TAS Ph: (03) 9560 0977 KRONE QLD Ph: (07) 3236 9233 KRONE ACT Ph: (02) 6281 4580 KRONE WA PH: (08)... preschool As well as fibre optic backbone connections and multi-core Category 3 link cables between the main communications room and the three sub cabinets within the club area and the cabinets located within the stadium, media box and preschool PRODUCTS USED Club Marconi commented on the high-level of commitment shown by KRONE In particular KRONE s 15-year guarantee and the support provided during the planning... other products I love the KRONE system and I don’t ever want to go back to the 110 type connectors we were using before,” said Stephanie Roos, Telecommunications Technician Above: Scott Wells in front of the Edith Bowen Building THE KRONE DIFFERENCE When prompted to point out what separated KRONE for the others, Wells replied “When we finished the evaluation it was the best end-to-end cabling solution... performance, density and versatility Like all KRONE connectors, the HIGHBAND 25 implements KRONE s legendary LSA-Plus technology incorporating corrosion resistant silver plated contacts set at a 45 degree angle for unparalleled reliability When hardwired, the HIGHBAND 25’s centre patch port allows for look both ways testing and the unique ability to re-route circuits by simply inserting a patch cord... users including DIOCESE NETWORK administration staff, teachers and students, with increased network performance and reliability The recent cable installation at St Paul’s Catholic College, Manly encompassed approximately 260 telecommunication outlets, 6000 metres of KRONE Category 5 cable, 350 metres of 6 core loose tube multimode optic fibre and over 60 lengths of cable duct KRONE 20/20 endorsed installer... are now preparing to continue with the additional objectives outlined in the ICLT initiative NETWORKnews 13 HIGHBAND 25 BECOMES ® Utah State University meets tomorrow’s infrastructure needs today with a KRONE TrueNet structured cabling system ® I By Glen Johnston, Manager Marketing and Product Development, KRONE Australia n the late 1800s, settlers in Utah’s Cache Valley had a dream to bring higher . Street BERKELEY VALE NSW 22 61 PO Box 335 WYONG NSW 22 59 Ph: ( 02) 4389 5000 Fax: ( 02) 4388 4499 KRONE NSW Ph: ( 02) 8748 9500 KRONE QLD Ph: (07) 323 6 923 3 KRONE WA PH:. (08) 9474 6600 KRONE VIC/TAS Ph: (03) 9560 0977 KRONE ACT Ph: ( 02) 628 1 4580 KRONE SA/NT Ph: (08) 823 6 0111 KRONE NEW ZEALAND Ph: +64 4 / 576 921 3 TECH SUPPORT: