Data centres
CONTENTS
Contents
March 2017
Network Communications News
THE UK ’ S NO . 1 NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE MAGAZINE
March 2017
4 Editorial
Check out NCN online
6 Industry News
Keep your finger on the industry pulse
10 Talking Point
Schneider Electric explores the demands of edge computing
14 On the Case
Projects on the go this month
Special features :
Data centres
22 Hot stuff
R & M ’ s Oli Barrington talks about data centre heat
25 A changing world
Darren Watkins , managing director of Virtus Data Centres , talks us through the new breed of global data centre providers
28 Navigating the fibre landscape
Alberto Zucchinali of Siemon reviews the latest fibre applications , standards and technologies
17 Hot Topic
The changing role of data centres in the cloud era
20 Solutions for harsh conditions
Evgeniy Vlasov , business development manager at Nexans , looks at switches and cabling in non-standard environments
40 Essential Selection
A pick of the industry ’ s latest and greatest products
42 Know How
The seven deadly sins of fibre optics
33 What ’ s next for the data centre ?
Isaac Roybal , director of product marketing at ExtraHop , talks us through the future for data centres .
36 Data centre products inside ...
Special feature :
The lowdown on data centre developments
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