...must for your servers, switches, routers, and other network equipment plus the climate control equipment at your main data center. Even though you may be local, when problems occur in the middle of the night, headquarters can seem very far away. • ...

...10-/100-Mbps Ethernet switches or for connection to high-speed servers with the assurance of total compatibility with your Ethernet network. • When Gigabit Ethernet first appeared, fiber was crucial to running Gigabit Ethernet effectively. Since t...

...media converters and switches is not a bad idea, but in many cases not a solution that you can do immediately or for somewhat money. If there is no fiber cable, you need to install one. If you want to connect another building being 1 kilometer aw...

50-µm fibre optic cable • Fibre optic cable. • The background • As today’s networks expand, the demand for more bandwidth and greater distances increases. Gigabit Ethernet and the emerging 10-Gigabit Ethernet are becoming the applications of c...

How to keep cabinets cool. • How to keep cabinets cool. • A must to keep cool • Networking equipment —especially servers— generates a lot of heat in a relatively small area. Today’s servers are smaller and have faster CPUs than ever. Because m...

TEMPEST • TEMPEST (Telecommunications Electronics Material Protected from Emanating Spurious Transmissions) • Black Box Explains TEMPEST. • TEMPEST is an acronym for Telecommunications Electronics Material Protected from Emanating Spurious Tra...

...Workstations, fibre switches and servers, fibre modems, and similar hardware require duplex cable. Duplex is available in single- and multimode. • Simplex—Because simplex fibre optic cable consists of only one fibre link, you should use it for a...

...modems, servers, switches, hubs, routers, and UPSs. Consider the depth of your equipment —servers require extra depth and may require a cabinet that’s at least 42 inches deep. Lastly, remember to allow space for cabling and power provisions. ...