Data Center Cabling and Administration

	Dec 10, 2009
	Approximately one hour
	Carl Cottuli, Vice President of Product Development & Services, Wright Line David Kozischek, Data Center Market Manager, Corning Cable Systems David Percival, Senior Systems Engineer, ADC

Data center environments remain a nucleus of intense networking activity, driving the development of leading-edge cabling products, technologies, and systems. This webcast seminar, produced by Cabling Installation & Maintenance, takes a snapshot look at today’s data centers and the impact they are having on cabling-system deployment. Covering a range of topics including standards, thermal management, and ultra-high-speed transmission, the seminar will provide attendees with a comprehensive roundup of the latest data center trends driving change in cabling systems.

  

Presentation 1: Standards and Best Practices for Cabling the Data Center

Because data centers are complex facilities comprising interdependent systems, it stands to reason they are governed by multiple standards and best-practice measures. This presentation provides an explanation of those standards and best practice measures that are most important to a data center’s cabling and networking professionals—including but not necessarily limited to the TIA-942 standard, ISO’s 24764 standard, and BICSI’s forthcoming Data Center Standard. The presentation takes the approach of “here’s-what-you-need-to-know” from a standards perspective for cabling professionals working in data centers.

 

Presentation 2: Latest Trends in Thermal Management

The theme of thermal management continues to dominate discussions among data center managers—and remains a significant challenge to them. This presentation focuses on some of the latest technological trends surrounding thermal management. The presentation will devote attention to the growing importance of thermal-management and energy-efficiency metrics in the data center—that is, means of tangibly measuring the amount of energy a data center consumes.

 

Presentation 3: Looking ahead to 40- and 100-Gbit transmission

The IEEE is currently hard at work on the 802.3ba 40- and 100-Gigabit Ethernet protocol specifications, scheduled for completion in June 2010. This presentation provides an update on the IEEE’s current efforts, paying specific attention to the eventual deployment of 40- and 100-Gbit Ethernet in the data center. It discusses the drivers that will make such high speeds a reality in the data center. Most importantly, it will discuss the current and potential future media options for achieving such high-speed transmission in data center environments.

Covering a range of topics including standards, thermal management, and ultra-high-speed transmission, the seminar will provide attendees with a comprehensive roundup of the latest data center trends driving change in cabling systems.

Carl Cottuli Vice President of Product Development & Services Wright Line
David Kozischek Data Center Market Manager Corning Cable Systems
David Percival Senior Systems Engineer ADC

Corning Cable Systems :
Corning Cable Systems is an industry-leading manufacturer of fiber optic communications network infrastructure solutions. The company has introduced LANscape® Pretium(TM) Solutions customers who expect more than 100 percent from their passive optical network. Designed with both high performance and ease of use in mind, LANscape Pretium Solutions is a complete tip-to-tip solution that combines innovative products, including fiber optic cables, connectors, hardware and test equipment, with award-winning technical support and engineering services. LANscape Pretium Solutions is the premier solution to meet all of your optical networking needs. For more information, visit:  

ADC :
We help the world communicate, supplying network equipment, software solutions, and integration services for broadband, multiservice networks that deliver data, video, and voice communications over telephone, cable television, Internet, broadcast, wireless, and enterprise networks. Our mission is to enable communications service providers worldwide to serve their residential and business customers more efficiently. We achieve this with talented and dedicated employees who are complemented with a diverse resource of suppliers.

Wright Line :

Wright Line is a recognized leader in providing innovative airflow
management solutions for data centers.  The company helps customers
conserve capital, meet evolving business goals, address sustainable energy
needs and adhere to technology requirements.  Wright Line's scalable
solutions – including its patented Heat Containment SystemTM which can
reduce energy costs up to 35% annually – focus on an overall approach to
handling data center environmental operations, including the efficient
management of existing cooling, power distribution and cabling
infrastructure while optimizing data center airflow. This approach provides
the flexibility to implement incremental IT equipment additions, without
investing in additional infrastructure.

Professional services include Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling
that constructs a virtual representation of your data center, modeling the
impact of load distribution within the facility as well as the flow of hot
and cold air within the space. CFD modeling is essential for fine tuning
your current facility to optimize its efficiency, and can demonstrate how
to increase your rack densities and server installations without creating
additional hot spot and airflow issues.

The company, headquartered in Worcester, MA, can be contacted by email at
info@wrightline.com or by phone, 800.225.7348.