July 3, 2001 Juniper Bank, a privately held online and wireless financial-services company, has installed a Fast Ethernet local area network in its new Wilmington, DE headquarters. The company chose Krone's (www.kroneamericas.com) TrueNet structured cabling system and Network Dynamics' (www.ndconline.com) NetTrax network-management system for the network, Krone reported.
Russ Aaronson, Juniper Financial's director of network services, says the company "wanted an easy-to-maintain cabling system that would facilitate moves, adds, and changes with minimal downtime. The solution had to satisfy our immediate needs, yet enable future growth." He pointed to the impedance matching in the TrueNet system and NetTrax's online documentation as factors that gave him confidence "that our new networking solution will help us meet our customer-service and business goals."
NetTrax is a product of Network Dynamics, the firm that designed and installed the system. The company characterizes NetTrax as "a dynamic, Web-enabled network inventory and documentation system that employs bar-code labeling technology to scan every component of an installation, as well as changes over time, using a Palm Pilot." Data is stored in a Microsoft SQL database, where authorized personnel can access it over the Internet.
