Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 09 | Page 50

INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cabling Cabling solution for Edge data centres R &M, the global Swiss developer and provider of cabling systems for high- quality network infrastructures, has reported on the successful beta test of the FO platform Netscale. The test partner was Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH, an operator of cloud data centres in Dresden, Germany. Cloud&Heat specialises in the setup and operation of efficient edge data centres that provide computer capacity decentrally and at the same time heat buildings. Cloud&Heat is aiming to realise the most efficient distributed data centre in the world in terms of energy and costs as well as the first real-time- optimized edge cloud in Germany. 52 INTELLIGENTCIO Because the edge locations in the basements of residential and non-residential buildings are usually limited in terms of space, Cloud&Heat is looking for innovative infrastructure concepts. The company is experimenting with compressed, centralised and automated architectures. This is why the cabling system Netscale was examined in practice in the spring of 2016. The FO platform offers the highest port density of all patch panels available on the market with up to 120 ports per height unit in a 19’’ rack. The Ultra High Density (UHD) system is setting a new benchmark for data centres. More than 5000 ports can now be accommodated in one cabinet. Netscale fulfilled three important criteria for Cloud&Heat: The platform is compact, and both easy to scale and install. “As an innovative company with challenging data centre projects, we are dependent on scalable fiber solutions that can be deployed in confined spaces,” says Dr. Marius Feldmann, COO at Cloud&Heat Technologies. Netscale fit into the Cloud&Heat architecture concept. Top of Rack (ToR) switches can be consolidated in the network cabinet and servers patched directly into the network cabinet. The switches can each be reconfigured at a central point. This is a sensible way of planning Software Defined Network (SDN) architectures. The result is www.intelligentcio.com