FINAL WORD
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Getting up to speed
with co-location
data centres
With the co-location data centre market a
significant area of growth for Siemon and an
increasing number of clients outsourcing their
equipment and data into co-location facilities,
Intelligent CIO spoke to Prem Rodrigues, the
company’s Director of Sales and Marketing for
the Middle East, India and SAARC, to find out
more about the sector.
How important is speed
of deployment for co-
location customers? What advantage can co-location
providers gain from Siemon’s
global infrastructure?
Within the data centre environment,
especially within switch-to-switch backbone
links to the core and to the storage area
network (SAN), there is immense pressure
to handle extreme data volumes. To process
this data, switch-to-switch optical fibre links
are rapidly migrating from 10 Gb/s to 40 and
100 Gb/s and beyond. Siemon understands that the needs of colo
providers are significantly more complex
than those of an enterprise data centre, and
meeting customer demand for immediate
service is critical to guaranteeing SLAs.
Large co-location and hyperscale data
centres where backbone links often exceed
the 100-metre (m) maximum link length
supported by multimode equipment are
looking to deploy optimised-reach (i.e. 500
metre) singlemode data centre solutions as
a singlemode deployment could turn out
to be their most cost-effective option while
offering the high speeds they require.
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INTELLIGENTCIO
Part of Siemon’s WheelHouse Advanced
Data Center Solutions, Siemon’s innovative
data centre design services, pre-terminated
cable assemblies and V-Built preconfigured
data centre cabinets, value-added logistics
and project management programmes allow
co-location customers to work with Siemon’s
technical team to understand the colo and
end-user’s needs to determine the bill of
materials and offer cost savings with custom
kitted data centre networking, server or
storage cabinets.
These cabinets can be equipped with pre-
terminated copper cable assemblies, and/
or plug and play fibre cabling infrastructure,
pre-installed patch panels, fibre enclosures,
cable management and power distribution
units (PDUs) that are ready for active
equipment. These value-added programmes,
offered as a complimentary service by
Siemon, will help speed deployment time
and maximise efficiency for a fast and
reliable service.
How can Siemon support clients
undertaking ‘roll-outs’ to multi-
tenant facilities?
Siemon’s V-Built preconfigured data
centre cabinets are ideal for rolling out a
multi-tenant facility. These cabinets are
preloaded with Siemon components such
as fibre or copper connectivity, PDUs, cable
management or other accessories.
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