TZ, Anixter launch cabinet-level access control security system
September 16, 2009 -- Anixter Inc. and Telezygology Inc. (TZ) have announced the joint release of the TZ Praetorian cabinet locking system, which delivers electronic access control with audit trail capability to data center cabinets.
Data center security has traditionally focused on video surveillance and entryway access control, but the TZ Praetorian is billed as a multi-cabinet solution designed to specifically address the needs of data center managers and designers to provide cabinet-level traceable electronic physical security within their critical data center environments. Jointly developed by Anixter's Infrastructure Solutions Lab and TZ, the system has been designed to easily integrate with existing enterprise access control systems and structured cabling infrastructure, bridging the gap between physical security systems already in place.
According to the companies, the unique characteristic of the system is its ability to easily connect to and utilize existing RJ45-based twisted-pair cabling systems. The TZ Praetorian is a non-proprietary, open-architecture system that is designed to seamlessly integrate with twisted-pair cabling infrastructures as well as IP-enabled access control and video surveillance systems. The system can be configured to react to cabinet events such as lock, unlock, and manual override to trigger other access control security devices such as video surveillance capture or alerts.
The TZ Praetorian comes in a twelve or twenty-four lock configuration and is scalable to accommodate any number of cabinets up to the physical
limit of the access control system it is connected to.
"Our customers have been requesting better security not only at the data center room level, but also at the individual cabinet level as well," says Tim
Holloway, Anixter's vice president of technology for security solutions. "It is important that individuals have a product that works with commercially
available access control systems to provide access only to authorized cabinets and spaces, with an audit trail recorded for HIPAA and SOX compliance
purposes."
"It has been a pleasure working with TZ to co-develop an innovative new locking and release solution for the enterprise and data center security markets that can utilize existing structured cabling systems," adds Andy Jimenez, Anixter's vice president of technology for enterprise cabling solutions. By leveraging the use of standards-based structured cabling in combination with the TZ Intevia Radial electronic lock, we are able to deliver the most cost effective cabinet locking system available today without the complexity associated with the installation of additional cabling."
TZ director Kenneth Ting, adds, "We are proud to have worked closely with the team at Anixter in developing TZ Praetorian. Together, enabled through the intelligence of the TZ Intevia Radial electronic lock, we have developed a solution that offers data center managers the ability to offer intelligent security down to the individual cabinet door level."
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