Independent, third party testing confirms that Siemon’s Z-MAX 6A achieves both component compliance and full channel compliance with the published version of ISO/IEC 11801. The Z-MAX 6A shielded connector exceeds all category 6A component performance parameters specified by newly published amendment 2 of ISO/IEC 11801, 2nd ed. and IEC 60603-7-51 for category 6A connecting hardware. Performed by Intertek, an industry-recognized testing facility, the testing assessed NEXT loss, return loss, insertion loss, FEXT loss, TCL, TCTL, DC resistance, DC resistance unbalance, PSANEXT loss, and … [Read more...]
New Managing Director appointed for Brand-Rex Germany
July 21, 2010 By
International cabling specialist Brand-Rex has appointed Joerg Schimke as its new managing director for Germany. Joerg brings more than 30 years experience in the cabling industry to Brand-Rex, which will be instrumental in strengthening the company’s position in Germany, the second largest structured cabling market globally. Brand-Rex CEO Paul Lines comments: “With Joerg at the helm of Brand-Rex Germany we are well placed to increase our share of this important structured cabling market.” After completing degrees in electrical engineering and information technology, Joerg began … [Read more...]
Siemon Network Cabling Systems Support IBM’s Enterprise Modular Data Centre (EMDC) Solution
July 21, 2010 By
Siemon has announced that its network cabling solutions can now be implemented as a part of IBM’s enhanced Enterprise Modular Data Centre (EMDC) programme. EMDC is a large data centre design concept which uses pre-engineered design strategies, allowing customers to meet unpredictable business and IT demands. By building to a design that allows customers to increase density and footprint as required, clients can scale their data centres when needed without disruption to existing operations. To bring this vision of large modular, plug and play data centres to the market, Siemon will … [Read more...]
Brand-Rex launches 2010-2011 Catalogue
July 16, 2010 By
The new Brand-Rex catalogue features more than 2600 products. Showcasing the extensive range of industry leading high performance copper and fibre solutions, the 168 page, full-colour catalogue also reflects the company’s recent ‘back to the drawing-board” approach by giving top billing to its new data centre line, products designed in conjunction with data centre managers to meet their real, operational needs. It includes the innovative High Density Copper and Fibre Cabling Systems, the unique cable management systems comprising frame, cabinet, cable/patch cord management and … [Read more...]
Spreadsheets can seriously damage your wealth!
July 14, 2010 By
The humble spreadsheet is responsible for more bad business decisions than humans. Spreadsheets regularly wipe off 15% to 20% of companies’ share value. And sometimes wipe-out smaller companies completely. EASA today announces a simple effective solution. Oxford UK 5 July 2010 – Horror stories in the press about companies having $billions wiped off their share value due to mis-reported financial results are becoming a lot more common. In many of these cases it turns out that somewhere in the production of these figures a faulty spreadsheet is the culprit. In fact, research … [Read more...]
Fortis selects Siemon Z-MAX for Stoke call centre expansion
July 14, 2010 By
Fortis Insurance Solutions (FIS), part of the Fortis UK insurance group, one of the UK’s leading providers of award winning insurance solutions, continues to expand after 28 years of successful operation. As a result of expansion, FIS recently appointed Siemon to deliver a new future-proof 10Gb/s capable physical layer network infrastructure to provide the business with a base to build more advanced applications and systems without being concerned about network performance issues or cabling limitations for many years to come. Significant growth across the Fortis business, as a result … [Read more...]
Brand-Rex announce distribution of EPV Solution from RiT Technologies
July 13, 2010 By
Easy to install, affordable infrastructure connectivity management for small and medium sized networks now available from Brand-Rex. Brand-Rex, leading manufacturer of copper and fibre structured cabling systems, today announced the launch of the EPV Cable Management Solution from RiT Technologies. Providing real-time, connectivity monitoring of a network infrastructure, from the communications room to remote sites, the EPV appliance based cable monitoring system is aimed at large as well as small to medium sized organisations. “EPV takes a new, easy implementation, approach to … [Read more...]
