Higher densities to manage and higher speeds to come
Ken Hodge,R & D Manager, Brand-Rex
Ken Hodge was educated at Liverpool University and Warwick University.
He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology. He is currently the R&D Manager in the Brand-Rex Company and is based in their headquarters in Glenrothes, Scotland. Ken has been involved in the industry since 1982, researching, designing and developing optical fibre and high frequency cabling for LAN and Telecom networking.
He is actively involved in BSI, IEC and CENELEC activities in International Standardisation in the cabling sector.
Session Synopsis
Data Centre infrastructures need to be designed to support tomorrows’ high speed applications and not just meet today’s needs, the cabling network should be almost invisible to the system, it should link the parts seemlessly and be flexible to support change and growth.
This presentation addresses the issue of how to achieve this in practice.
The pace of growth in speeds of transmission line technologies in networking equipment is so fast that it is stretching the capabilities of even ‘state of the art’ fibre and copper cabling solutions, e.g. Cat6 cabling which was only standardised in 2003 cannot now fully support the 10GBASE-T technology which emerged in 2006, Cat6 has effectively 'reached the end of the line'.
Now, with the drive to 10G and beyond to 40G and 100G Ethernet network technologies its not only copper cabling that has a problem, optical fibre cabling is being pushed to the limits and even duplex link OM3 performance systems face an uncertain future. What type of cabling do you install to provide a foundation for the future?
Session date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 10:30am
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