Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 33 | Page 69

INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cabling POWERED BY Siemon wins cabling vendor of the year at Network Middle East Innovation Awards ///////////////////////////// Prem Rodrigues, Siemon’s Director of Sales and Marketing for Middle East, India and SAARC S iemon, a leading global network infrastructure specialist, has been awarded with the Cabling Vendor of the Year Award at the 14th annual Network Middle East Innovation Awards, held at the Grosvenor House in Dubai. The awards bring together the networking and security community from across the region and celebrate networking professionals, service providers and vendors and their successful projects, implementations and personal achievements over the past 12 months. Awarded in 17 different categories, Siemon was named cabling vendor of the year for the best cabling product range available in the region. Siemon’s entry focused on the depth and the capabilities of its network cabling solutions for next gener ation data centres and for intelligent buildings, as well as on key product innovations www.intelligentcio.com introduced over the past 12 months. Siemon’s WheelHouse Advanced Data Centre Solutions support any size and type of data centre with key cabling solutions comprising of Z-MAX category 6A F/UTP and TERA category 7A high-performance twisted-pair copper cabling and LightHouse advanced fibre optic cabling portfolio to support 10, 40 and 100 gigabit applications and beyond. The entry also included Siemon’s ConvergeIT Cabling Solutions for Intelligent Buildings, a unified structured cabling solution that converges critical data, voice, video and low- voltage building systems onto a single unified physical infrastructure, providing significant cost savings and sustainability over the life of the facility. Significant additions to the WheelHouse and ConvergeIT cabling portfolios included the LightStack 8 ultra high-density plug and play fibre system for efficient and cost- effective support of current and future 8-fibre applications and Z-PLUG category 6A field terminated plugs that enable quick and reliable, high-performance plug terminations for IP-based and PoE-enabled devices including wireless access points, security cameras, LED lights, distributed antenna systems (DAS) and building automation devices in intelligent buildings. “We are honoured to be recognised at this year's Annual Network Middle East Innovation Awards for our dedication to excellence and innovation within the industry," said Prem Rodrigues, Siemon's Director of Sales and Marketing for Middle East, India and SAARC. "Siemon has held a leading presence in the Middle East for more than two decades, and we will continue our commitment to providing market leading solutions and expertise in the region. “With our ongoing investment in developing advanced solutions, we will remain at the forefront of transforming the infrastructures of data centres and smart buildings of tomorrow.” n INTELLIGENTCIO 69