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panoramaNo. 02/2014 · Dätwyler Cabling Solutions Customer Magazine
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Abu DhAbi: oNe-StoP SolutioN PRoviDeR foR teleCoMS iNfRAStRuCtuRe
PReASSeMbleD SolutioN foR huAwei DAtA CeNtRe
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DAtA CeNtRe SolutioN: PeAk vAlueS SuRPASSeD yet AgAiN
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Solutions provider for telecoms infrastructure – page 04
trade fair in finland – page 11
Data centre portfolio expanded further – page 14
Publisher and Dätwyler Cabling Solutions AG, editorial responsibility 6460 Altdorf / Switzerland, www.cabling.datwyler.comEditors Dieter Rieken, Verena DurrerTranslation Bedford Translations, Bedford/UKLayout Carmela LetschertPrinting Gisler Druck AG 6460 Altdorf / SwitzerlandCirculation 8,000 German / EnglishPublishing frequency semi-annuallySources of images Datwyler Cabling Solutions photo archive, www.fotolia.comReproduction of articles Permitted only with attribution to © 2014 Datwyler
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03 High-speed communication – an increasingly important competitive driver
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04 Abu Dhabi: One-stop solution provider for telecoms infrastructure 06 Nürtingen gets “information superhighway”08 Preassembled solution for Huawei Data Centre09 A fibre optic network for Al Reem Island10 Multimedia network for new University building in Basel
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11 Trade fair in Finland 11 2nd place at the 2014 DCS Awards 12 Still on the road to success in China13 Mexico, a “Hidden Champion”
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14 Data Centre Solution: Peak values surpassed yet again NewS
15 New Managing Director for Datwyler Middle East Trade fairs in October
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Dear ReadersIn highly industrialised countries we are used to a lot of luxuries which many of us would prob-ably not describe as such, since we have long taken them for granted. These “luxury goods” include the uninterrupted availability of means and opportunities for high speed data commun-ication. We use apps such as Google Maps, consult online flight schedules and timetables and book hotels and restaurants by smart-phone as if we had done it all our lives. We no longer store photos locally but prefer the cloud, and are firmly convinced that we can access material whenever and wherever we need it. Some of us may even have complained about temporarily having to make do with 3G instead of LTE or 4G in the toilet of a public building...
Yet not so long ago we had to grapple with downloads which took hours, airline tickets were still pieces of paper and mobile phones were used for virtually nothing but phoning.
Recently I was forcibly reminded of the old days when I wanted to change my holiday travel ar-rangements in an emerging Asian nation: I had trouble getting through on the phone, it was hard to understand and various interruptions made things even more difficult. I couldn’t ac-cess my booking confirmation as the online mailbox was not available at precisely that mo-ment, nor could the seats in the plane be con-firmed directly due to IT problems. And to cap it all, the hotel couldn’t find the reservation... In the end I managed it – after two hot and sweaty hours. Not the most efficient of processes, as my wife remarked.
Efficiency in business processes is an important competitive driver. Modern means of commun-ication and the rapidly increasing data traffic have long made us dependent on the consist-ently excellent functioning of our communicat-ions infrastructures. At Datwyler Cabling Solut-ions we play an important role in ensuring and enhancing the efficiency of our customers’ business processes with our products, integrat-ed solutions and services – and we are proud of it. You will find up-to-date examples in this is-sue of “Panorama”.
I hope you enjoy reading about them. Datwyler Cabling Solutions
johannes MüllerCeo
High-speed communication – an increasingly important competitive driver
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Over the past two years Datwyler has been acting as general contractor for the cabling of thousands of new offices, shops, apartments and villas
on Al Reem Island and in the Rawdhat district
of Abu Dhabi.
high-rise buildings domin-ate the skyline of Al-Reem island – as here in the Marina Square district
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Al Reem Island is a residential, commercial and business project in Abu Dhabi on the north coast of the United Arab Emirates. The new neighbour-hood, developed by Sorouh (Shams Abu Dhabi), Reem Investments and Tamouh, is being created on a natural island in the Persian Gulf about half a kilometre off the coast. The island is planned to provide 6.5 million square metres of residential and working space for around 180,000 people. The total cost is estimated at 30 billion dollars. This gigantic project has attracted international interest, not least due to the fact that it is one of the Abu Dhabi’s first free trade zones.
The Rawdhat development area in Abu Dhabi is “modest” by comparison: it will comprise 18,000 residential and business units covering approxi-mately 800,000 square metres and costing around 5 billion dollars.
Datwyler Middle East was appointed general contractor for the telecoms infrastructure of the buildings in both projects. Amongst other things this includes structured cabling systems for data, voice and TV/video, fibre optic back- bones, home automation cabling, the installat-ion of optical network terminals (ONT) and video monitoring systems (CCTV). The contract was awarded by the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) and UT Technology, the authorized subsidiary of Etisalat acting as Tele-com Authority & Service Provider in Al Reem and Rawdhat.
Datwyler is responsible not only for planning, supplying and installing the telecoms infrastruc-ture for these projects, but also for overall pro-ject management including cost control. On top of this there is network commissioning and ac-ceptance as well as reporting and documenting the systems installed.
Numerous high-rise buildings cabled Over the past two years Datwyler has completed projects in 17 buildings on Al Reem Island, inclu-ding the Reem Diamond, Marina Bay, Amaya To-
wers, Mangrove Palace and Sky Towers, several major commercial properties, the Paragon Bay Mall and one villa. By August 2013 Datwyler had handed over seven multi-storey residential blocks in Rawdhat.
These projects included structured cabling for 1160 homes, when around 430 kilometres of copper data cable and 75 kilometres of single-mode fibre optic cable were installed. The ONT installations – always including patching and measuring the fibre optic backbone – even took in more than 2500 apartments in 12 build-ings, involving the testing of around 9700 fibre optic links.
The tender specification stipulated horizontal le-vel structured cabling comprising Category 6A cables and connecting technology, data outlets – some in floor boxes in the offices – and wall-mounted housings with signal converters for fibre-to-copper signal conversion. Twin-fibre op-tic cables were used to connect the apartments to the cabinets in the floor telecom rooms (FTR). Each FTR cabinet is connected to a dedicated 42 U rack in a main telecom room (MTR) using riser fibre cable with 12 to 48 fibres depending on floor capacity. Patch cords were provided at FTR for linking twin fibre with riser fibre cable and at MTR for linking riser cable with the service provider’s racks. All the connections are labelled at both ends and all the fibre optic links were tested prior to handover.
Datwyler used Category 6 cable, the appropri-ate connecting technology and separate wall-mounted enclosures for cabling the home automation systems – monitoring and control panels, motion detectors, thermostats and equipment for shading and access control. Here again all the connections were labelled and tested.
To date Datwyler has implemented CCTV mo-nitoring system in the two PoP rooms on Al Reem Island, one of them being in Sky Tower.
keys to success Datwyler has always been able to complete the projects implemented to date within the time specified and within budget – despite the chal-lenges typical of this size of construction site. These challenges include, for example, architec-tural modifications at short notice and delays caused by other construction trades. The two most important factors for success were contin-uous design optimization, material and resource planning as well as close coordination with the clients, the other firms operating on site and the respective installation partners.
Nabeel Shrajudeen
Senior Project Manager
Datwyler cabled 481 dwelling units in Mangrove
Palace alone
A look into a wall-mounted cabinet in Rawdhat oNu cabinet in an apartment house in Rawdhat
Datwyler implemented a CCtv monitoring system in the Sky tower PoP room
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The city of Nürtingen, with a population of just under 40,000, is an important business and ser-vice centre in the Stuttgart region. In order to lay the technical foundations for new communica-tions services in the urban area and surrounding region, in 2010 Stadtwerke Nürtingen GmbH created the NT-net broadband supply division, which will set up an extensive fibre optic access network (AN) over the next few years. This new “information superhighway” provides com-mercial and private customers with high band-width access of currently up to 100 megabits per second, allowing superfast Internet and high-definition television among other things. At the same time it forms the basis for future offerings,
for example the connection of intelligent energy consumption meters.
gradual expansion Since October 2011 both Fiber-to-the-Curb (FTTC) and Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) networks have been created in Nürtingen. This was done first of all by accessing street distribution cabinets with fibre optic cables in three sub-municipalities. Here multifunction devices provide connections to the existing copper cables for FTTC. For FTTH, cable distribution frames were installed in the street cabinets and additional fibre optic connec-tions into the buildings created at what is known as network level 3.
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NüRtiNgeN getS “iNfoR-MAtioN SuPeRhighwAy”
Nürtingen’s Municipal Utilities will continue to expand the city’s fibre optic network for private and business customers with its NT-net Service
Division. The company is relying on Datwyler products and services to connect its NT-net customers.
blowing fibre optic cables into ducts
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Nürtingen’s Municipal Utilities found Datwyler to be an expert and reliable product and instal-lation partner for their broadband expansion, and this successful collaboration has proved its worth in many individual projects since Octo-ber 2011. Initially private households and small businesses in the district of Reudern were able to surf and telephone using cutting-edge tech-nology from autumn 2012 onwards. Since early 2014, the districts of Raidwangen and Neckar-hausen have also been benefitting from the services provided.
over 50 sub-projects completedDatwyler is expanding the fibre optic network in close cooperation with trained, certified in-stallation partners. The first orders, executed in 2011, included connection of the Municipal Utilities control room, of IT company Bürotex Metadok and green roofing company ZinCo Dachbegrünung. These projects focussed primarily on creating the requisite fibre optic splice closures, splicing and measurement work and drawing up the relevant documentation.
Since then – in line with the Municipal Utilities’ requirements – Datwyler has been responsible for the turnkey implementation of around 50 other projects. In addition to the work described above these included blowing, installing and connect-ing various types of cable in manholes and build-ings both inside and outside urban areas.
By summer 2014 approximately 17 kilometres of cable had been installed, around six kilometres of which were used to link the central distribution points (Point-of-Presence, PoP) to street cabinets, with about eleven kilometres of cable entering the buildings. The connection of private households was realised for the most part with 12-fibre cable, that of business customers with Datwyler’s 24-fibre Micro and S-Micro cable.
In FTTH projects the fibre optic cables are normal-ly terminated in a wall-mounted cabinet which is located in the basement of the building. As a rule an optical / electrical media converter is installed at the building entry point (BEP). Depending on the contract, users can connect their own home net-
work and telephone or telephone system here. Some of the cables, however, were also routed into the network cabinets of larger companies and connected directly to type OV-A patch panels.
In recent months 30 commercial and over 200 private customers have been connected to the new “information superhighway”. To date all the installations and respective start-ups have proceeded without a hitch, so the Nürtingen’s Municipal Utilities are very happy with Datwyler’s products and services – and will also make inc-reasing use of them during subsequent exten-sions of their network.
Christian Conrad
Project Manager
Andreas weng
Area Sales Manager
baden-württemberg
fibre optic splice closure in a manhole fibre optic data outlet
in hohes gestade business Park
wall breakthrough
at hölderlin grammar School
Cable to building entry point
in the hohes gestade business Park
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Huawei Technologies, established in Shenzhen in 1987, is the world’s second largest supplier of communications equipment, it is the third largest manufacturer of smart phones and the leading telecommunications solutions supplier. Its port-folio features integrated solutions for telecom-munications networks and business networks, professional services and software solutions as
well as mobile devices including tablet PCs. Today Huawei services 45 of the top 50 telecom operators. One third of the world’s population directly or indirectly uses Huawei products. The company operates in over 140 countries through-out the world and employs a workforce of over 150,000, of which 70,000 work in Research and Development.
Huawei has collaborated with Datwyler in China since 2012, during which time Datwyler has sup-plied universal communications cabling solutions for the infrastructure projects on several Chin-ese sites.
Copper and fibre optic solutionOne of these projects is the so-called Phase II Manufacturing Base in the Xiaoshan district of Huangzhou, the capital of China’s Zhejiang Pro-vince. The site, which covers an area of over 230,000 square metres, gives Huawei 311,000 square metres of floor space for facilities which
include software production, conference rooms and canteens. The functional hub of the manuf-acturing base, workplace to over 10,000 people, is the Research and Development Department of the Communication Products Division.
Datwyler installed a communications cabling system with Category 6 cables and around 24,000 high-performance connections in the extensive building complex. This was supple-mented by the use of backbone cabling in-corporating a fibre optic solution with metal-free lightning-resistant fibre optic outdoor cables, thus guaranteeing the reliable transmis-sion of data throughout the complex.
10 gigabits in Data CentreThe data centre of the Phase II Manufacturing Base in Huangzhou is used primarily by the Research Department. Here again Datwyler provided the solution, cabling 500 racks with an OM3 fibre optic system so as to achieve a transmission speed of 10 gigabits per second.
The solution was tailored specifically to the customer’s requirements and comprised 12- fibre cables preassembled with connectors and 24-port high-density modules, also supplied preassembled. Using preassembled products meant that installation was simple, neat and, above all, fast.
Peter Deng
South China Sales Manager
500 racks were cabled with a fibre optic system
over 10,000 people work in the Phase ii
Manufacturing base in huangzhou
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DAtA CeNtRe Huawei trusts in Datwyler cabling systems for its new manufacturing base in Huangzhou.
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As the general contractor appointed by Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) based in the United Arab Emirates, Datwyler Middle East was responsible among other things for de-sign validation and optimisation, the supply and installation of fibre optic cables and system ac-cessories, project monitoring and cost control, testing and acceptance, and for reporting and documentation.
The project on Al Reem Island essentially in-volved installing a PoP (Point of Presence) – also called a control centre, node or head station – in the Sky Tower, the installation of fibre optic net-works in the individual buildings and con-nections between the PoP and the high-rise blocks. These were Gate Tower 3, 4, 5, 7A and 7C as well as the new buildings on the Sorouh site, i.e. the Sea View, Al Wifaq and Ocean Scape Towers as well as both Beach Towers.
Datwyler started the requisite work in late December 2011 and completed it in September 2013, using high-fibre cables, splice closures, optical distribution frames and thousands of fibre optic patch cables in the aforementioned buildings.
Redundant links The PoP in the Sky Tower is connected to each individual high rise by one primary and one re-dundant (secondary) fibre optic link. Connecting the Gate Tower involved bridging distances of between 600 and 2000 metres with between 300 and 1300 single-mode fibres, depending on the size of the building.
The fibre optic links to the buildings on the Sorouh site consist of 300 to 600 fibres and are between 850 and 4400 metres long.
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Central fibre rack in gate tower 4:
the optical fibres are terminated on
the patch panels provided by the client
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A fibRe oPtiC NetwoRk foR Al ReeM iSlAND
Datwyler commissioned by Etisalat to develop the access network on Al Reem Island off the coast of Abu Dhabi.
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The indoor cabling on the PoP site is of redund-ant design, terminated in high-density racks on high-density distribution panels. In the individual towers the optical fibres are terminated in 42 U racks on the respective panels provided by the client. Here, among other things, Datwyler has in-stalled splitters and patch cables to prepare the building for connection to Etisalat services.
flexible response essential The specifications stipulate that each link of the outdoor cabling should have several fibre optic closures in accessible manholes. Among other
things a large closure was provided in each of the individual high-rise buildings as a point of entry to the outdoor cabling. The cable access points and manholes had not yet been com-pleted in several buildings, however, so in order to avoid delays and additional expenditure Dat-wyler placed the fibre optic closures on their own cable runs. This simple solution was then copied in all subsequent projects.
Datwyler was faced with even more challenges in the course of the individual development stages, for example modifications to the network
structure on the PoP site, where a flexible response was once again essential. Continual network de-sign optimization, cost control, careful material and resource scheduling and, last but not least, close collaboration with Etisalat, several authorities and the many firms involved in the project enabled Datwyler to complete this demanding project on time, as planned and within budget.
Nabeel Shrajudeen
Senior Project Manager
The new campus of the renowned Academy of Art and Design at the University of Applied Scien-ces Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) is current-ly being constructed on the Dreispitz site in Basel. Datwyler is supplying the universal communica-tions cabling system for the new campus tower block. Among its features making it possible to transmit up to 10 gigabits per second are type CU 7702 Category 7A cables and MS-C6A 1/8 Cat 6A (IEC) RJ45 modules for the horizontal cabling as well as a fibre optic backbone cabling. Datwyler Data Centre Solution OM4 multimode and OS2 single-mode cables and components were instal-
led on the floors, in parallel to the copper net-work, for the FO connection of cutting-edge audio/video technology. For the new commun-ications network Datwyler also supplied various patch panels and racks made to the customer’s requirements as well as safety cables and distributors with extended circuit integrity in the event of fire.
Roland häfelfinger
Area Manager
Northwestern Switzerland
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MultiMeDiA NetwoRk foR New uNiveRSity builDiNg iN bASel
high-density racks and high-density distribution panels on the PoP site Sky tower Splice closure in manhole (top) and on extended
cable tray in the Al wifaq tower (below)
New campus tower block in basel
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In early February 2014 Datwyler Cab-ling Solutions took the opportunity of attending Sähkö, Tele, Valo & AV, the most important Finnish trade fair for electrical infrastructures. This is held every other year in the exhib-ition grounds of Jyväskylä, a city with a population of 135,000 in cent-ral Finland.
This time the 3-day fair drew around 15,000 visitors, a large number of whom called in at the Pistesarjat Oy stand. The local Datwyler distribut-ion partner had devoted a subst-antial part of its display space to
Datwyler cabling systems for preventative fire protection and commun-ications networks.
Many of the visitors to the stand showed a special interest in the display wall featuring safety cable installations and highlighting the important role played by tested support and mounting systems in cabling with extended circuit integrity (System Circuit Integrity) conforming to DIN 4102-12. This German standard served as the model for future European standards on the testing of safety cable installations.
Pistesarjat Oy has represented Datwyler in Finland for three years now. The company has around 30 employees and is an important player in the dom-estic electrical sales market. The Pistesarjat team has specialised in Datwyler’s safety and communications cabling solutions, with a further focus on heating cables and pipes. A high level of consultancy expertise and extensive technical and commercial knowledge are the hallmarks of this thriving company, which moved into larger premises in July 2014.
Pier Paolo guerriero
export Sales Manager
In April Datwyler Cabling Solutions invited all its customers on the website to vote in this year’s “DCS Awards”. Datwyler and four other suppliers were selected as finalists in the “Datacenter Cabling Product of the Year” category. iDaC Solutions Ltd., the exclusive distributor for Great Britain and Ireland, had nominated a copper-based Category 7A (Class FA) data centre cabling solution from Datwyler.
On 15th May the Datwyler solution was awarded 2nd place (“Runner-up”). As only company votes were allowed and no company was allowed to vote for itself, Datwyler would like to say a big thank you to all its customers for their vote of confidence.
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2ND PlACe At the 2014 DCS AwARDS Datwyler’s data centre solution
made it from finalist to award winner.
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Pistesarjat Oy’s stand at Sähkö, Tele, Valo & AV turned the limelight on some interesting products from the Datwyler solutions portfolio.
Simo kainunkangas, Pistesarjat oy iCt
Product Manager, on the exhibition stand
the iDaC Solutions team at the prize giving gala in london
Display wall on safety cable installations on the Pistesarjat oy stand
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Still oN the RoAD to SuCCeSS iN ChiNA
Datwyler is still on course for growth in China. Three new prestigious awards
confirm the company’s success in this market.
The second “Building Electric and Intelligent Energy-Saving Technology Development Fo-rum” and the “China Intelligent Building Electric Industry Excellent Brand Selection and Awar-ding Ceremony” were held in the Beijing Xin-jiang Plaza on 26th November 2013. The event was organised jointly by the “China Association of Building Energy Efficiency”, the “China Intel-ligent Building Information Network” and the “Electricity of Intelligent Buildings Media”. Justin Pan, Sales Director, accepted an “Excellent Gen-eric Cabling System Award” on behalf of Dat-wyler. Zeng Songming, Technical Director at Datwyler, gave a widely acclaimed talk on “Analysis of the energy efficiency of an applic-ation-neutral cabling system”.
Among the top 10 On 6th December the industry gathered in Pe-king for the “China Intelligent Building Innovat-ion and Sustainable Development Round Table Summit” and the award ceremony for the “Intel-ligent Building Top 10 Brands”.
The event focussed on worldwide trends in the field of “intelligent buildings”. Current “hot” to-pics and the industry’s development potential in China generated heated debate among the 200+ participants. The podium discussions covered a wide range of subjects and provided comprehensive information gained from re-search and practical experience. Zeng Song-ming took part in the discussions on behalf of Datwyler.
The “Engineering Intelligent Design” Depart-ment of the “China Exploration and Design As-sociation” and the Peking journal “Intelligent Building and City Information” singled Datwy-ler out as a “Top 10 Brand” in the field of intel-ligent building cabling. The prize was based es-sentially on a ballot of experts, users and system integrators and on criteria such as brand aware-ness, technical level, market share, cost perfor-mance and services. Chen Weidong, Datwyler’s Managing Director in China, accepted the award in person.
Zeng Songming, technical Director at Datwyler,
gave a lecture on energy efficiency
at the forum on 26th November
Chen weidong (left),
Managing Director of Datwyler China,
at the award ceremony
in Peking on 6th December
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fourth place in the industry “oscar” vote Once again Datwyler came fourth in the “Qian-jia Brands Lab Top 10 Cabling Brands”. Chen Weidong accepted the industry “Oscar” on 10th December at the “China Intelligent Building Brand Awards“ ceremony in the Dong Fang Ho-tel in Guangzhou. Datwyler, a platinum sponsor of the “China International Building Intelligence Summit” organised by Qianjia and held there at the same time, had its own stand and gave a lecture.
Datwyler is growing steadily in China. In a recent interview Chen Weidong made it clear that in future Datwyler will meet customer-specific requirements in the field of data, voice and video transmission with very specific solutions which offer customers genuine added value. Datwyler also wants to combine the cabling systems with engineering support and services – for example in the areas of on-site surveys, solution design, installation, training and maint-enance.
Cassie wang
Sales Administration Assistant
Chen Chen
Marketing Specialist
In years to come the United Mexican States could overtake Brazil in terms of economic influence. It is one of the “O5 countries“, and many economists believe that Mexico would have fitted in well with the original BRIC countries. This up-and-coming emerging nation has a large internal market characterised by an urgent need to modernise and increasing direct investment.
In Marathon Eléctrica de Puebla Datwyler Cabling Solutions has a strong and compe-tent local partner which aims to meet ambitious targets with the high-performance portfolio in Mexico. Marathon’s head office is in Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza (Puebla for short), the capital of the central Mexican state of Puebla, situated at an altitude of 2135 metres. The experienced distributor has an excellent network of contacts and five branch offices in the country: in Mexico DF, Queretaro, Villahermosa, Tijuana and Orizaba. Marathon has also successfully been selling the products and solutions of major European manufacturers on the domestic market for 32 years.
Marathon has appointed two new qualified members of staff, Oliverio Ruiz and Jorge Miranda, for the exclusive management of the Datwyler portfolio. They have passed a sales training course in Altdorf to enable them to implement individual, customer-specific solutions successfully and on time. In order to tap new customer potential Datwyler also organised a local certification course. 12 major system integrators and over 70 technicians attended these in three stages.
enrique lampatzer
Area Sales Manager iberia-latAm (CAlA)
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MeXiCo, A “hiDDeN ChAMPioN”
New distributor Marathon aims at achieving ambitious targets
with Datwyler solutions. Chen weidong at the Summit in guangzhou
janitzio badillo (left), Managing Director, and oliverio Ruiz (right),
Manger iCt Networks at Marathon eléctrica de Puebla, S.A. de C.v.
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For over ten years Datwyler has been supplying a wide range of tailor-made infrastructure solutions and associated services for data centres. The company’s core competence is still high-perform-ance future-proof cabling systems. And the jewel in the product portfolio is definitely the 100G-tested “Datwyler Data Centre Solution”.
This system is the preassembled plug-and-go fibre optic solution specially developed by Dat-wyler for high-density requirements in data cent-res. It is characterised by ultra-high-performance cables and components, high-precision con-nector assembly and optimum optical perform-ance values (IL/RL). Datwyler has in part even managed to surpass these values over recent
weeks. No wonder the system enjoys a fast-growing installed basis, particularly in Switzerland.
The central components of this cabling system are the fully assembled plug-in modules and front panels, fabricated to a high quality. The plug-in modules – available for OM3, OM4 and OS2 – are perfectly matched to Datwyler’s 3 U modular sub-racks and 1 U patch panels. Extremely high pa-cking densities can be achieved in data centres – up to 288 fibres with LCD connections on 3 U, for example, or up to 1152 fibres with MTP adapters.
optically and technically upgraded The latest version of these plug-in modules, for which Datwyler has already filed two patent ap-
plications, is no longer made from anodised aluminium, but from robust black plastic. In the enclosure a neat cable management system ensures more stable internal fibre control from the rear MTP couplers to the front fibre optic couplers. On both sides of the front couplers there are labelling strips for customer-specific printing.
So far all that was available were plug-in modules with two rear MTP couplers (type A) to take two preassembled MTP trunk cables. These had six LCQ adapters (LC quads) on the front.
Other versions including MTP-on-LSH plug-in modules can now be supplied, and even more models will follow. At the same time Datwyler
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PeAk vAlueS SuRPASSeD yet AgAiN
The improved plug-in modules for the “Datwyler Data Centre Solution” plug-and-go
fibre optic system are available as of now. But that’s not all: the system solution is being
upgraded by leaps and bounds.
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New MANAgiNg DiReCtoR foR DAtwyleR MiDDle eASt
At the beginning of August Datwyler Cabling Solutions welcomed Jon Bamford, 52, the new Managing Director of Datwyler Middle East. Born and brought up in Great Britain, he has been living and working outside his native land for just under 20 years, the last 12 years of which he spent in the Middle East region.
Jon Bamford possesses extensive technical and market knowledge. He has worked in various positions of increasing responsibility for over 30 years, mainly with multi-national ICT busines-ses, including two of the world’s largest – British Telecom and Verizon.
For the past 15 years he has occupied various management positions in which he was respons-ible for leading large bids and setting up new companies requiring rapid growth.
As well as a diploma in engineering (BTec) Jon has a degree in marketing, both from the Univers-ity of London, and an MBA from Nottingham University. Jon is married with two children.
tRADe fAiRS iN oCtobeR
TeleNetfair will be held in Lucerne between 21st and 23rd October. On stand 4.32 in Hall 4 Datwy-ler Cabling Solutions will be showing solutions for future-proof data centre cabling systems, office solutions using copper and fibre optic technology, and FTTx solutions.
On 29th and 30th October Datwyler will be attend-ing Data Centre World Asia at the Suntec Exhibit-ion Centre in Singapore. Among the products displayed on the stand will be the Datwyler Data Centre Solution portfolio, preassembled trunk cab-les and the company’s new Category 8 cables.
CAbliNg SolutioNS NewS
now offers a larger selection of polarity methods for all these inserts.
The new plug-in modules also come with a choice of up to two splice cassettes for a maximum of 24 fibres – double the previous capacity.
Portfolio expanded further In the event of a migration to 40G or 100G the plug-in modules in the distribution boxes are replaced by front panels with MTP adapters. These MTP front panels now also come in the new de-sign, i.e. in black. Depending on the requirement they are currently fitted with two, four or eight MTP adapters – versions with six or 12 will follow.
Over the coming months breakout modules will also be available for all the front panel versions, fitting seamlessly into the fully modular overall concept of the Datwyler Data Centre Solution.
The product range is rounded off by fanout ca-bles, mini-breakout cables and patch cables, more robust universal cables colour-matched to fibre type as well as loose tube distribution boxes and patch management trays.
fully modular constructionDatwyler Cabling Solutions will continue to per-fect and expand the portfolio on this basis. A gradual increase in type variety and fully modul-
ar construction will ensure that every specific customer requirement can be met in future.
Pius Albisser
Senior engineer Data Centre Solutions
jon bamford, the new Managing
Director of Datwyler Middle east
the outstanding performance figures of the Datwyler system solution speak for themselves
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