SYSTIMAX Solutions™, the worldwide leader in structured connectivity solutions and services for organizations, has announced the Middle East launch of the new version of its highly successful Guide to Networks and Connectivity, which was last produced in 2000. The guide is aimed at those who need to know about communications infrastructure but are not specialists. Rather than describing products, it explores networks and connectivity in non-technical language while discussing topical issues so that readers can knowledgeably contribute to the successful design and deployment of network infrastructures.
The guide focuses on key strategic as well as practical factors in planning and implementing cabling networks. It discusses the need for networks, how they should be configured and how they should be installed – and by whom. It also explores the vital role that cabling plays in creating successful networks, examining the different types of cables, their longevity and cost of ownership. It covers issues that include interference (known as crosstalk), fire prevention, wiring for mobility and intelligent infrastructure management while explaining standards and the different cable categories.
Cabling infrastructure is generally expected to have a useful life of at least ten years. As a result, a network’s design should allow for tomorrow’s bandwidth-intensive applications as well as others that could be coming in ten or even 20 years time. The guide gives examples of how today’s multi-media applications often demand the simultaneous transmission of video, voice and data at 100 Mb/s or even 1 Gb/s to each workstation and how many experts predict that new technologies could be even more “hungry” for bandwidth. In anticipation of future requirements, SYSTIMAX Solutions has recently introduced a high-speed UTP solution, the SYSTIMAX GigaSPEED® X10D Solution that will facilitate the deployment of 10 Gigabits per second to the desk.
Dominic Morris, Regional Sales Director for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), SYSTIMAX Solutions commented, “As a global market leader, it is appropriate for SYSTIMAX Solutions to assist those who need to be aware of the issues surrounding connectivity, particularly with such rapid advances taking place in computing, technology and communications. It is in everyone’s interests that robust, reliable networks are created with the right type of cabling infrastructure to provide a high communications performance.”
About SYSTIMAX Solutions
SYSTIMAX Solutions™, a CommScope company (NYSE: CTV), is a worldwide leader in structured cabling systems and provides integrated end-to-end connectivity solutions for voice, data, video and building management applications in both wired and wireless enterprise networks.
SYSTIMAX Solutions supplies its high performance and market-leading range of products through a network of highly skilled BusinessPartners. The product range includes the copper based GigaSPEED® X10D and GigaSPEED XL Solutions, the fiber-optic LazrSPEED and TeraSPEED™ Solutions and the intelligent patching iPatch® System. The SYSTIMAX AirSPEED™ Solution adds a wireless option to the portfolio. SYSTIMAX Labs and the people who have spearheaded these innovations will continue to play an integral role in the future success of SYSTIMAX Solutions. Currently the company’s BusinessPartners install an average of over 1,000 miles (1,600km) of SYSTIMAX cable every day in more than 110 countries worldwide. For further information please visit www.systimax.com.
