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The cabinets are pre-assembled and packaged
at one of Siemon’s manufacturing facilities,
arriving on site ready for final connections to
be made and active equipment to be installed.
Rather than receiving several different
components and needing to locate and install
each one in its specific cabinet, preconfigured
data centre cabinets speed data centre
deployment, reducing the labour and time
required to go live.
What advice would you give
to providers of co-location data
centres looking to upgrade:
(A) Cabling products (B) Fibre optics
(C) Cabinets?
(A) Cabling products
For data centre switch-to-server connections,
Siemon recommends deployment of
Category 6A balanced twisted-pair copper
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shielded cabling supporting 10GBASE-T.
With cabling channel lengths supported up
to 100 metres, Category 6A is well suited to
support a variety of architectures for these
connections, including top of rack, middle of
row and end of row configurations.
In addition, interconnect assemblies support
ultra high-speed point-to-point applications
in the data centre. Siemon’s SFP+, QSFP+
interfaces, high density CXP and hybrid
assemblies, for example, support up to 100
Gb/s across an array of application standards.
(B) Fibre optics
When we look at multimode and singlemode
fibre applications, the foreseeable future will
be dominated by 2- and 8-fibre solutions.
While most of the MPO connectors on the
market today are 12-fibre connectors, the
use of 12-fibre MPO solutions for 8-fibre
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applications means that four fibres or 33%
of the optical fibre goes unused.
Co-location providers looking to upgrade their
fibre infrastructures are advised to deploy
8-fibre MPO solutions (Base 8) which provide
a much more efficient and cost-effective
method to support current and future duplex
and 8-fibre applications without wasting any
fibre and eliminating the need for conversion
cords or modules. 8-fibre MPO solutions
support current 8-fibre 40 and 100 Gigabit
applications such as 40GBASE-SR4 and
100GBASE-SR4 and also provide an easy
migration path to next generation 200 Gb/s
and 400 Gb/s applications.
(C) Cabinets
Co-location providers are looking to
accommodate as many tenants as possible
in their facilities but available floor space
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