INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cabling
LANMARK-7A HAS ALWAYS
DELIVERED HEADROOM BEYOND
THE MINIMUM AND THIS
CHANGE FORMALISES THAT FOR
NEW INSTALLATIONS. EXISTING
INSTALLATIONS OF LANMARK-
7A MAY ALSO BE QUALIFIED TO
SUPPORT 25GBASE-T
At a glance…
R&M and FNT launch
joint data centre cable
management solution
Reichle & De-
Massari (R&M)
and FNT Software
have unveiled their
joint solution for
data centre cable
management.
Built on the
integration of
two infrastructure management products, the R&MinteliPhy
and FNT’s Command software package, the solution delivers
the functionality needed to mitigate typical data centre
challenges including data transmission errors, performance
issues and downtime.
for data centres which currently use 1 Gb/s
line speed at server ports. LANmark-7A can
be installed in cost effective End or Middle
of Row Architectures and offers cabling for
two performance steps ahead of today:
10GBase-T and 25GBase-T.
With LANmark-8, even one performance step
further can be achieved towards 40GBase-T”
“We are pleased to introduce LANmark-7A
and LANmark-8 in the Middle East. Our
customers can now scale up to 25G and
40G Ethernet with these new products that
are designed for scalable high speed data
centre applications. Also, Nexans is the first
vendor to bring Cat-8 copper cables to the
Middle East market. We are confident our new
innovations will help our customers to address
the challenges of supporting high frequency
Ethernet applications for their future-ready
data centres,” said Tarek Helmy, Regional
Director Gulf and Middle East, South & East
Africa at Nexans Cabling Solutions.
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Through seamless API integration of their products, the
technology vendors have designed a comprehensive solution
that can monitor all changes to a physical network, including
switches, servers and patch panels, while also offering
functions for mapping, managing, analysing and planning
cabling and network cabinets, including asset management,
planned and unplanned changes and alarms.
“Today, the average data centre surface area measures 1,000
to 2,500 m2 and has thousands of network ports. With
ever growing complexity, IT teams need the right tools for
administration and to make critical capacity and compliance
decisions to increase data centre efficiency,” said Syed Akhtar,
Vice-President MEA & Emerging Markets at FNT Software.
Information gathered from R&MinteliPhy’s RFID sensors
flows into FNT Command software, providing a consolidated
view of all cabling and port data. This data includes real-
time physical connectivity monitoring and documentation,
which R&M’s sensor collects from RFID-tags on the cabling
connectors. The solution increases security and mitigates the
downtime by raising alerts on unsolicited changes, and aids
planning by automatically generating trending information
and alarms on port capacity. At the same time, all work
orders from FNT Command’s work order management can be
sent to R&MinteliPhy for visual guidance, task tracking, and
permission configuration.
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