6. $3 billion sales
13,000+ employees
3,250 patents
Infrastructure provider worldwide#1
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Radio frequency solutions for wireless networks
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Coaxial and fiber cables for HFC networks
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Structured cabling/connectivity and in-building wireless for enterprise networks
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And as you can see here, the world wants to communicate. We are in the early stages of an unprecedented push for bandwidth – a true technology wave. In 2009, YouTube required 24 terabytes of new storage each week. By 2012, internet traffic will more than double to 44 exabytes per month. By 2013, bandwidth demand will have grown by 500%. By 2014, mobile broadband subscribers will total 2.5 billion. And in 2020, we will have 50 billion sensors attached to the internet to monitor energy consumption and traffic.
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The world is changing. Technology is revolutionizing almost every aspect of our lives. New applications are changing the way we live, work, play and learn. Behind the technology revolution, you’ll find networks and behind the networks, you’ll find people. People wanting to connect and communicate.
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People wanting to connect and communicate where, when, and how they choose. With no restrictions and with consistent levels and quality of service. Whether at home, at work, or on the go.
CommScope gives its customers around the world the power to help their customers connect and communicate where, when and how they choose.
CommScope is a world leader in infrastructure solutions for communications networks.
We enable a host of information-rich and interactive services to be delivered to your computer, TV and mobile device, whether you are at home, at the office, or on the go.
So what does this mean?
Well ‘at home’ our last mile technologies brings the broadband world to customers doors. As experts in that field, CommScope provides customers the leading cable solutions and environmentally secure enclosures for broadband networks.
“At the office” we help business enterprises transform the way they operate by providing some of the industry’s highest performing network infrastructure solutions for video, voice, data and intelligent building management applications. We deliver a complete end to end physical layer solution including cables and connectivity, enclosures, intelligent software and network design services.
“On the go” today everyone is on the go, constantly in transit to work or out and about. All the time we want to be connected to family friends and colleagues no matter where we go. And Andrew corporation who we acquired at the end of last year is the premier supplier of end to end radio frequency solutions. They provide a full portfolio of products that make wireless connectivity possible virtually anywhere anytime.
Organizations have gone from managing a limited number of electronic assets to managing a growing and complex array of networked assets servers, switches, routers, desktop PCs, wireless access points, IP phones, video surveillance cameras, and so on.
And keeping track of all of the interconnections from the data center to these end points has become a colossal headache. Yes, there are cabling databases, but they rely on manual input for every move, add or change. So the reality is that these solutions quickly fall behind the workflow and remain out-of-date.
What your customers therefore have today are environments where hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of components and services are connected in an ad-hoc fashion. This ‘accidental architecture’ has become hard to manage and a huge operational drain. It puts businesses at risk of making errors based on guesswork and lack of patch cord visibility and real-time documentation. The physical layer of IT infrastructure is in desperate need of a better, more intelligent management solution; a solution that adds new agility, scalability, and resiliency to the work of network administrators and cabling technicians.
CommScope has such a physical layer management solutionSYSTIMAX iPatch. We’d like to introduce you to a huge market opportunity for new product and managed services revenue.
Customers want to deploy Data Center wide architectures. Depending on the IT team we are speaking with we will gather different requirements, we have an opportunity to talk on all of the different levels because of our strategic position and the fact that we touch all of the different components in the Data Center with the breadth of our product portfolio. Likewise we have the challenge of being able talk the same language of all the different groups and stakeholders and address their challenges. Its up to all of us to start to build the relationships with all of these different technology groups. Our advantage is that we are in the unique position to be able to bring it all together.
CXO Concerns:
I need to take a long term view for where I want our data center infrastructure to be in 5 years. We can’t go on building out our infrastructure with discrete silos of disparate infrastructure
“Need to Control Operations and Capex Costs. The data center’s current infrastructure deployment and operations model is not economically sustainable.”
Application Related Issues:
Not all applications are created equal. Underlying infrastructure needs to address the requirements of strategic applications and deliver right service levels and prioritization for them.
Need to Better Support the Business. IT is not keeping up with the changing demands of the business. We need to be an enabler for business agility not an obstacle. I’m looking at an SOA strategy.
Compliance and Regulations
Need to address Regulatory Issues and Need to Enable Business Resilience. Need to implement an infrastructure that can protect and recover applications, communications and information – as well as provide uninterrupted access.
Storage
Applications and storage/data infrastructure must deliver the desired Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). RTO determines how long it takes for a certain application to recover and RPO determines to which point (in backup/data) the application can recover. These objectives also outline the requirements for disaster recovery and business continuity. If these needs aren’t met in a deterministic fashion, an enterprise carries a lot of risk in terms of its inability to deliver on the desired service level agreements (SLA).
Network
Need to Have Short term Wins as well as take a Long Term View – What Do I want our IT infrastructure and Data Center to look Like in 5 Years and how are we going to get there?
Customers are realizing that they have trouble incorporating new advanced technologies into their data center architectures that are somehow glued together. Hence they are asking their services vendors to help them deploy best practices architectures.
Enterprises also realize that an agile infrastructure that easily incorporates new technologies can often serve as a competitive edge.
Selling into the Data Center will involve multiple stake holders, who all have different agendas and priorities. The traditional network contacts may get you in, but they may not be able to impact the decisions that ultimately determine how the network evolves. The organization may be run in silos, where each has their own budget and power base.
The customer may need to take a long term view of where they want the data center infrastructure to be in 5 years. They can’t go on building out the infrastructure with discrete silos of disparate infrastructure
“Need to Control Operations and Capex Costs. The data center’s current infrastructure deployment and operations model is not economically sustainable.”
Applications and storage/data infrastructure must deliver the desired Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). RTO determines how long it takes for a certain application to recover and RPO determines to which point (in backup/data) the application can recover. These objectives also outline the requirements for disaster recovery and business continuity. If these needs aren’t met in a deterministic fashion, an enterprise carries a lot of risk in terms of its inability to deliver on the desired service level agreements (SLA).
“Need to Better Support the Business. IT is not keeping up with the changing demands of the business. We need to be an enabler for business agility not an obstacle. I’m looking at an SOA strategy”
“Need to address Regulatory Issues and Need to Enable Business Resilience. Need to implement an infrastructure that can protect and recover applications, communications and information – as well as provide uninterrupted access”
“Need to Have Short term Wins as well as take a Long Term View – “What Do I want our IT infrastructure and Data Center to look Like in 5 Years and how are we going to get there?
The OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model was developed by the ISO (International Standards Organization) to provide a network design framework to allow equipment from different vendors to be able to communicate with each other.
Although this model is complicated, it provides a useful framework for visualizing the communications process. Layers 7 through 4 deal with end to end communications, while layers 3 through 1 deal with network access. In other words, layers 1 through 3 focus on data transmission and routing, layers 5 through 7 focus on user applications, and layer 4 provides an interface between the first three and the last three layers. Each layer in the model builds upon the one below it. Simply put, for the user to successfully run the required application, everything must function properly in the preceding layers.
So why is this important? As the IS group you are ultimately responsible for providing your users with the applications they require to make your organization successful. Most of your time and money is probably spent at the upper layers of the model. Additionally, the products (software & hardware) associated with the upper layers typically have the shortest life span.
As mentioned, each layer is dependent on the one below it, thus the physical layer becomes the foundation of your network. The physical layer is the least expensive part of your network, lasts the longest, determines how well the other layers will work together and yet it is often overlooked in the overall scope of your network. Installing the best cabling infrastructure for your current and future applications assures you that the other layers will not be impeded by the cabling system and that your users can successfully run their applications.
Again, the structured cabling system is the least expensive part of your network investment. Industry sources estimate the structured cabling system represents 5% to 8% of your network project cost, yet the physical layer represents 50% of all network problems. Skimping on the SCS will cost your organization substantially more in productivity loss and troubleshooting than the money saved by installing a low cost SCS in the long run.
Decibel or dB
Decibels are logarithmic.
Decibels are always negative, so the minus (-) sign is assumed.
60 dB is equal to 1/1,000,000 of the strength of the original signal.
Attenuation
A signal loses power (strength) as it travels down media.
The signal is strongest at the transmit end (Tx) and is weaker at the receive end (Rx).
A lower dB value for attenuation is desired. It means you are experiencing less signal loss.
Near-End Crosstalk (NEXT)
Happens at the "near end"- which can be defined as the first 40-50 feet from the where the signal originated
Connectors and the area around them are very susceptible to NEXT
Strong energy field (signal) from the transmit pair couples onto the attenuated (weaker) signal on the receive pair
Good comparison is hearing someone else's conversation while on the phone
Attenuation
A graphical look at attenuation
Gets worse as frequency increases
Delay Skew: The delay skew measurement is the amount of difference between the fastest and slowest pairs when the data is transmitted.
Is measured with the information from the propagation delay measurements. Not only does the data need to be received within a certain amount of time. The data must all get there together. Because the data is sent over all 4 pairs at the same time, it must arrive at the same time or within a tolerable difference. The TIA test requires the data to arrive within 45Ns of difference.
If any customers prefer using the emerging Fabric architecture as shown here, the same strategy is applicable here as well.
Data center Fabric in short is a sort of mesh interconnect network as illustrated between aggregation layer and core layer. Fabric network allows not necessarily low latency but predictable latency, which is critical for converged network purpose. Fabric doesn’t only handle east-west traffic well but also handle any to any traffic well. What’s driving Fabric architecture? Again it is server virtualization. Virtual machines sometimes need to be moved from any physical host to any host in the data center without limitations. The need of Virtual Machine mobility from any to any drives fabric architecture.
Here we see that TeraSPEED removes the water peak leaving the fibre open for operation around the 1400 window or E band. This gives 60% more useable wavelengths
CommScope’s differentiation starts with the combination of extended distances that Systimax LS550 and InstaPATCH 360 low-loss components provide above the standard. It also identifies that it can support nearly all of the most flexible and reconfigurable environments that exist, with 6 MPO connections if required.
Recent industry interoperability testing revealed extended distances beyond our design guidelines with a Bit Error Ratio = 0.
CommScope’s contribution to the standards bodies includes a suggestion for a dual row MPO connector that allows for existing 12f trunk cables to seamlessly combine as a single 100G channel.
There is no doubt that the advantages found in InstaPATCH 360 structured cabling system provide a clear and effective upgrade path.
Some examples of InstaPATCH preterminted copper installed. It looks like something installed by an expert business partner, who carefully crafts every cord individually. In fact, our partners are using this solution as it takes a lot of the project risk off the table. There are few surprises about installation time when the product enters the data center already built and factory tested.
To support virtualized servers you need bigger pipes to both:
Access multiple applications on a single server
Move applications between servers quickly for backup/redundancy/failover.
Reprise analogy – encrypt the language and add sheetrock
“dialectric”
