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CNS Magazine - March/April 2011

Features

The Future Of Green
Greenfield data centres represent an opportunity to nail down the best facility design from the get-go, but if any mistakes are made the consequences could be dire. You need to tread very carefully.

Cooling, Power Management and Density: 3 Keys to a Greener, More Efficient Data Centre

Columns

Where did things go wrong?
Policy foot-dragging by the federal government leaves Globalive and other wireless operators twisting in the wind.

Exhibit hall 'buzzing' in Orlando
Enhanced Education and Exhibits sessions or E3, went over well at 2011 edition of the Winter Conference.

TIA TR42 update
10GBASE-T apps, data centre best practices among topics discussed at recent meeting in San Diego.

What's New

Greenlee adds new punch sets to its Jack Terminator line

Siemon releases QSFP+ to SFP+ cable assembly

Ixia unveils network security test tool for the cloud (March 01, 2011)

Leviton Opt-X Unity Fiber System allows for 40GbE to 100GbE migration

Belden's FiberExpress@EASE simplifies fiber management

APP's upgrades SPEC Pak Extreme connector series

Indoor/outdoor optical fiber cable from Superior Essex built for tough conditions

ICC upgrades its HiPerLink offering

CPI releases 189 BIM product model drawings for Autodesk Revit (March 01, 2011)

Magnemount tray carries cables across and down curvatures of steel water tanks

Editor's Desk

CPI and Bent Metal

News Hub

Inside the GNOC command centre
AT&T's Global Network Operations Center monitors 20 petabytes of data and voice traffic daily from across the globe.

Conference stream (March 01, 2011)

Warning issued about bogus cable equipment entering N.A.