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blog http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/ Avaya files for bankruptcy protection, CEO calls it the 'best path forward' http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/avaya-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-ceo-calls-it-the-best-path-forward/ <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Roboto Slab&quot;, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17.04px; line-height: 1.5em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #111111; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 0px 0px 1px;">Avaya has confirmed that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a move chief executive Kevin Kennedy said was "the best path forward".
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1.5rem 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Roboto Slab&quot;, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17.04px; line-height: 1.5em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #111111; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 0px 0px 1px;">"We have conducted an extensive review of alternatives to address Avaya’s capital structure, and we believe pursuing a restructuring through Chapter 11 is the best path forward at this time," Kennedy said in a statement. "Reducing the company's current debt through the Chapter 11 process will best position all of Avaya's businesses for future success."
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1.5rem 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Roboto Slab&quot;, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17.04px; line-height: 1.5em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #111111; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 0px 0px 1px;">The US-based company said it had commenced a formal proceeding to restructure its balance sheet to better position itself for the future. To facilitate the restructuring, Avaya said it had filed voluntary petitions under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1.5rem 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Roboto Slab&quot;, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17.04px; line-height: 1.5em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #111111; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 0px 0px 1px;">Avaya's foreign affiliates are not included in the filing and will continue normal operations, according to the company. An Avaya Australia and New Zealand spokesperson told CRN the local arm of the company would proceed with business as usual. 
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1.5rem 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Roboto Slab&quot;, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17.04px; line-height: 1.5em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #111111; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 0px 0px 1px;"> 
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 17.04px; line-height: normal; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-stretch: normal; color: #111111; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 0px 0px 1px;">The company has US$6 billion (A$7.9 billion) in debt and needs to raise US$600 million for a debt maturity in October 2017.
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1.5rem 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Roboto Slab&quot;, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17.04px; line-height: 1.5em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #111111; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 0px 0px 1px;">Avaya said it obtained a committed US$725 million debtor-in-possession financing facility underwritten by Citibank, subject to court approval. This financing, according to Avaya, combined with the company's cash from operations, is expected to provide sufficient liquidity during the Chapter 11 cases to support its continuing business operations and minimize disruption.
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1.5rem 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Roboto Slab&quot;, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17.04px; line-height: 1.5em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #111111; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 0px 0px 1px;">The company said it would not sell its contact centre business.
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1.5rem 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Roboto Slab&quot;, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17.04px; line-height: 1.5em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #111111; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 0px 0px 1px;">As part of Avaya's plan to address its capital structure, the company said it evaluated expressions of interest in various Avaya assets, including its contact centre business. After discussions with its financial and legal advisers, the board of directors determined that focusing on Avaya's debt structure was paramount and a sale of the contact centre business would not maximise value for customers and stakeholders. 
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1.5rem 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Roboto Slab&quot;, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17.04px; line-height: 1.5em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #111111; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 0px 0px 1px;">"This is a critical step in our ongoing transformation to a successful software and services business. Avaya's current capital structure is over 10 years old and was put in place to support our business model as a hardware-focused company, which has evolved significantly since that time," Kennedy said. "Now, as a result of the terms of Avaya's debt obligations and the upcoming debt maturities, we need to recapitalise the company."
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1.5rem 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Roboto Slab&quot;, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17.04px; line-height: 1.5em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #111111; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 0px 0px 1px;">Kennedy said the company's business was "performing well" and that he was confident it would emerge "stronger than ever".
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1.5rem 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Roboto Slab&quot;, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17.04px; line-height: 1.5em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #111111; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 0px 0px 1px;">"Pursuing restructuring through Chapter 11 will enable us to reduce Avaya’s debt and interest expense, while providing increased financial flexibility to further invest in innovation and growth to enhance our market-leading competitive position," said Kennedy. "Most importantly, we are keenly focused on minimising disruption to our customers, partners, and employees and do not expect to experience any material disruptions during the Chapter 11 cases."
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1.5rem 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Roboto Slab&quot;, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17.04px; line-height: 1.5em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #111111; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 0px 0px 1px;">Avaya remains in ongoing negotiations to monetise certain other assets, as appropriate, to maximize value for all stakeholders, according to the company.
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1.5rem 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Roboto Slab&quot;, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17.04px; line-height: 1.5em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #111111; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 0px 0px 1px;"><a style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: #b61a1e; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; font-family: &quot;Roboto Slab&quot;, serif;" href="http://www.crn.com/news/networking/300083464/avaya-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection-ceo-calls-it-the-best-path-forward.htm" target="_blank">This article originally appeared at crn.com</a> Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:26:39 +1300 http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/avaya-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-ceo-calls-it-the-best-path-forward/ Converging Communication Networks – Emerging Cabling Considerations http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/converging-communication-networks-emerging-cabling-considerations/ While IT managers tend to function mostly in real time – meeting evolving needs and handling crises – they also worry about the future of their networks. Their jobs are to anticipate, meet, and (hopefully) exceed business needs and objectives to the satisfaction of everyone from managers and internal end users to external customers, partners and suppliers.
And, they must do it all while considering how competitive global issues and information technology can leverage their positions.
What these managers really need are answers to four key performance/value questions on network cabling: 
<ol style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 35px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><li style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">How can I, on behalf of my business, get the desired results in the best way possible while working within specific parameters for cost, reliability, performance, grade and quality of service, bandwidth, etc.?</li>
<li style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">How can I be sure that the end results are compelling—i.e., that they satisfy or exceed the established outcome criteria?</li>
<li style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">How can I satisfy the needs of those who turn to me and my organization for IT support?</li>
<li style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Who is the best vendor(s) to take our infrastructure to where it must be while enabling maximum performance, easy accommodation to dynamic changes, and minimal total cost of ownership on budgets, staff and end users? </li>
</ol>The answers to these questions go to the heart of why any enterprise deploys network cabling. It is ultimately all about laying a foundation for people and work, and in this regard, the cabling infrastructure must: 
<ul style="padding: 0px; margin-left: 35px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><li style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Satisfy internal and external customers.</li>
<li style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Increase productivity by helping people manage their time better, and by shortening move, add, change (MAC) processes and/or response times.</li>
<li style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Increase revenues by speeding response times, easily expanding to accommodate higher speed applications and pleasing customers.</li>
<li style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Reduce costs for the creation and delivery of network services, the operation and maintenance of the infrastructure, and any potential expansion.</li>
<li style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Solve unscheduled business issues such as network downtime and human error. </li>
</ul>The focus of network cabling has undergone a not-so-subtle shift. Qualitative assessments such as performance, ease of use, and value have superceded quantitative measures like speed, electrical/optical parameters, and cost as the true drivers of technology deployment. IT managers want to know as much about what a cabling solution will do for them as about what it does. And technology for technology’s sake has taken a deserved backseat to using technology to enable business success. 
In addition, it is important to acknowledge that there is no one path or a single “correct” timetable to the converged infrastructure of the future. There are only options and issues that need to be constantly evaluated in the light of changing internal and external circumstances. Every organization will need to be transitioned to this future a little differently. Thus, every IT manager wants to know, “Whom can I trust on this journey to the future?” 
The CommScope Infrastructure Academy hopes to build trust through the sharing of knowledge. In particular, the <a style="color: #00a8cc; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.commscopetraining.com/courses/cabling/sp3000/structured-cabling-infrastructure-design/?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=socialmedia&amp;utm_campaign=blogging">SP3000 Structured Cabling Infrastructure Design</a> course is a comprehensive look at all aspects of design and implementation of network infrastructure cabling. 
How do you consider what cabling your network requires? Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:23:40 +1300 http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/converging-communication-networks-emerging-cabling-considerations/ Top 10 CommScope Innovations: Category 6 and Category 6A Cabling and Connectors http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/top-10-commscope-innovations-category-6-and-category-6a-cabling-and-connectors/ Category 6 and Category 6A Cabling and Connectors 
Definition: This innovation includes copper twisted-pair cabling (later standardized as Category-6 and Category-6A), the associated connectors, as well as multi-stage compensation technology and split-pair leadframe wire crossover designs that reduce crosstalk issues.
Year of the Innovation: 1996-97
 
<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Co62As-4TDE?wmode=opaque" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0">&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the innovation that CommScope or one of its acquired companies was first in creating? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In 1997, AT&amp;amp;T’s SYSTIMAX Structured Cabling Systems (“SYSTIMAX SCS”) organization introduced improved twisted-pair connectors which incorporated breakthrough technology called multi-stage compensation. This new compensation technique enabled connectors with drastically reduced crosstalk levels which, when coupled with improved cables and cords, doubled the usable bandwidth of the cabling system, all while maintaining backward compatibility with existing LAN solutions. The structured cabling industry later standardized these improved levels of performance as Category-6 (Cat-6), Class E systems in US, European, and international standards.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Key to the breakthrough is placing multiple stages of compensating crosstalk in precisely controlled locations to substantially overcome the negative impact of offending crosstalk. Over time, the compensation techniques were refined further and more complex mechanical structures were added, such as implementing a crossover of the split pair of the modular jack’s contact lead frame. These further enhancements led to even higher performance levels introduced to the market in 2004 and later standardized by the industry as Category-6A (Cat-6A), Class E&lt;sub&gt;A&lt;/sub&gt;. CommScope and its acquired companies obtained patents on the noted compensation methods and lead frame designs.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was happening in the market that this innovation was needed? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In the 1990s, local area networks (LANs) were booming, but future application demands were driving the need for more bandwidth than Category-5e copper twisted pair systems could provide. Crosstalk in the ubiquitous RJ45 modular connector was a key electrical impairment that held back increases in usable bandwidth. The development of Cat-6 connectors, matched with complementary Cat-6 cables and cords, solved this problem.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did this innovation benefit customers and the industry?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Category-6 systems consisting of concatenated cables, cords, and connectors enabled modern LANs with robust support for network speeds of 1 Gigabit/sec. Category-6A systems enabled 10X that speed – up to 10 Gigabits/second. Category-6 and Category-6A are the most commonly used cabling solutions in the market today.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did this innovation act as the springboard for other innovations, and if so, how do they all tie together?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Multi-stage compensation facilitated the realization of Cat-6 cabling, and a whole family of related patents on compensation methods, jack design and lead frames arose from this initial innovation. CommScope continued to improve performance further to Cat-6A levels, while simultaneously achieving Cat-6 performance levels more efficiently and cost-effectively. The combination of these advancements in the connector area, coupled with complementary developments in cables, has enabled CommScope to build its leadership position in the structured cabling market.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the significance of the innovation for CommScope?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Multi-stage compensation technology enabled CommScope to be first to market with a Category-6 solution portfolio (cable, cords and connectors), thereby providing enhanced future-proofing to our customers.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;To enable industry growth, CommScope licensed its patented technology to others in the industry. According to BSRIA, the market for Category-6 and Category-6A solutions was $3.6 billion in 2015. Our analysis of competitive products has revealed that every Category-6 or Category-6A modular connector we tested utilizes some form of our multi-stage technology. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</iframe>
 
What is the innovation that CommScope or one of its acquired companies was first in creating? 
In 1997, AT&amp;T’s SYSTIMAX Structured Cabling Systems (“SYSTIMAX SCS”) organization introduced improved twisted-pair connectors which incorporated breakthrough technology called multi-stage compensation. This new compensation technique enabled connectors with drastically reduced crosstalk levels which, when coupled with improved cables and cords, doubled the usable bandwidth of the cabling system, all while maintaining backward compatibility with existing LAN solutions. The structured cabling industry later standardized these improved levels of performance as Category-6 (Cat-6), Class E systems in US, European, and international standards.
Key to the breakthrough is placing multiple stages of compensating crosstalk in precisely controlled locations to substantially overcome the negative impact of offending crosstalk. Over time, the compensation techniques were refined further and more complex mechanical structures were added, such as implementing a crossover of the split pair of the modular jack’s contact lead frame. These further enhancements led to even higher performance levels introduced to the market in 2004 and later standardized by the industry as Category-6A (Cat-6A), Class EA. CommScope and its acquired companies obtained patents on the noted compensation methods and lead frame designs.
What was happening in the market that this innovation was needed? 
In the 1990s, local area networks (LANs) were booming, but future application demands were driving the need for more bandwidth than Category-5e copper twisted pair systems could provide. Crosstalk in the ubiquitous RJ45 modular connector was a key electrical impairment that held back increases in usable bandwidth. The development of Cat-6 connectors, matched with complementary Cat-6 cables and cords, solved this problem.
How did this innovation benefit customers and the industry?
Category-6 systems consisting of concatenated cables, cords, and connectors enabled modern LANs with robust support for network speeds of 1 Gigabit/sec. Category-6A systems enabled 10X that speed – up to 10 Gigabits/second. Category-6 and Category-6A are the most commonly used cabling solutions in the market today.
Did this innovation act as the springboard for other innovations, and if so, how do they all tie together?
Multi-stage compensation facilitated the realization of Cat-6 cabling, and a whole family of related patents on compensation methods, jack design and lead frames arose from this initial innovation. CommScope continued to improve performance further to Cat-6A levels, while simultaneously achieving Cat-6 performance levels more efficiently and cost-effectively. The combination of these advancements in the connector area, coupled with complementary developments in cables, has enabled CommScope to build its leadership position in the structured cabling market.
What is the significance of the innovation for CommScope?
Multi-stage compensation technology enabled CommScope to be first to market with a Category-6 solution portfolio (cable, cords and connectors), thereby providing enhanced future-proofing to our customers.
To enable industry growth, CommScope licensed its patented technology to others in the industry. According to BSRIA, the market for Category-6 and Category-6A solutions was $3.6 billion in 2015. Our analysis of competitive products has revealed that every Category-6 or Category-6A modular connector we tested utilizes some form of our multi-stage technology. Mon, 09 Jan 2017 21:24:37 +1300 http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/top-10-commscope-innovations-category-6-and-category-6a-cabling-and-connectors/ Top 10 Technology Trends Impacting Infrastructure & Operations http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/top-10-technology-trends-impacting-infrastructure-and-operations/ As organizations strive to align IT and operational technology to drive <a href="http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/digital-business/">digital business</a> innovations, infrastructure &amp; operations (I&amp;O) leaders should focus on 10 key technology trends to support these initiatives.
During the <a href="http://www.gartner.com/events/na/data-center?cm_sp=swg-_-event-_-datacenterna">Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure &amp; Operations Management Conference</a> in Las Vegas, <a href="http://www.gartner.com/analyst/4800">David Cappuccio</a>, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, said that these technology trends that impact I&amp;O fall under three areas — strategic, tactical and organizational.
“These trends are tied to aspects of society and business, and all will have direct impacts on how IT delivers services to the business over the next five years,” said Mr. Cappuccio. “Unless IT leaders understand how these trends are emerging, and what cascading effects they will have on IT operations, the impact on strategy, planning and operations can be significant.”
<a href="http://blogs.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/files/2016/12/TopTechTrendsIO.png"><img alt="toptechtrendsio" src="http://blogs.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/files/2016/12/TopTechTrendsIO-1024x1021.png" width="1024" height="1021"/></a>
<h2>Strategic</h2>
<h3>Trend 1: Disappearing Data Centers</h3>
Gartner predicts that by 2020, more compute power will have been sold by <a href="http://www.gartner.com/it-glossary/infrastructure-as-a-service-iaas/">infrastructure as a service (IaaS)</a> and <a href="http://www.gartner.com/it-glossary/platform-as-a-service-paas/">platform as a service (PaaS</a>) cloud providers than sold and deployed into enterprise <a href="http://www.gartner.com/it-glossary/data-center/">data centers</a>. Most enterprises — unless very small — will continue to have an on-premises (or hosted) data center capability. However, with most compute power moving to IaaS providers, enterprises and vendors need to focus on managing and leveraging the hybrid combination of on-premises, off-premises, cloud and noncloud architectures.
<h3>Trend 2: Interconnect Fabrics</h3>
Data center interconnection fabric is poised to deliver on the promise of the data center as software-defined, dynamic and distributed. The ability to monitor, manage and distribute workloads dynamically, or to rapidly provision LAN and WAN services through an API, opens up a range of possibilities.
<h3>Trend 3: Containers, Microservices and Application Streams</h3>
Containers (e.g. Docker) and microservices are the new application platform for cloud development. Containers provide a convenient way to implement per-process isolation, which makes them well-suited for development of microservices, in which applications are constructed as a suite of small services that run as separate processes and communicate through lightweight network-based mechanisms. Microservices can be deployed and managed independently, and once implemented inside of containers, they have little direct interaction with the underlying OS.
<h2>Tactical</h2>
<h3>Trend 4: Business-Driven IT</h3>
Recent Gartner surveys have shown that up to 29 percent of IT spend comes from business units rather than traditional IT, and this will increase over the next few years. This business-driven IT was often a means of getting around traditional slow-paced IT processes. However, in today’s world it is more often designed to provide technically savvy business people a means of implementing new ideas quickly, while adapting to, or entering, new markets as effortlessly as possible.
Astute IT leaders today recognize that business-driven IT has a real value to the enterprise, and that IT’s role should be to build relationships with key business stakeholders – thereby keeping central IT aware of new projects, and what their potential long term impacts will be on overall operations.
<h3>Trend 5: Data Center as a Service</h3>
IT leaders need to create a data center as a service (DCaaS) model, where the role of IT and the data center is to deliver the right service, at the right pace, from the right provider, at the right price. IT becomes a broker of services.
IT leaders can enable the use of cloud services across the business, but with a focus on picking the right service, at the right time, from the right provider, and in such a way that underlying IT service and support does not get compromised.
<h3>Trend 6: Stranded Capacity</h3>
Stranded capacity – things that are paid for, but not really used – can be found both in on-premise data centers and in the cloud. IT leaders should learn to focus not just on uptime and availability, but also on capacity, utilization and density. Fixing this can extend the life of an existing data center and reduce operating expenditures from providers.
<h3>Trend 7: IoT</h3>
The <a href="http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/internet-of-things/">Internet of Things (IoT)</a> will change how future data centers are designed and managed and how they evolve as massive volumes of devices stream data, constantly or periodically, to enterprises, government departments and agencies around the world. I&amp;O should use an IoT architect who looks at the long term strategy for both IoT and the data center.
<h2>Organizational</h2>
<h3>Trend 8: Remote Device (Thing) Management</h3>
A growing trend for many organizations with remote sites/offices is the need to manage remote assets centrally. This has taken on more importance as enterprises focus on micro-data center support for regional or remote sites, and the emerging role of edge computing environments for geo-specific compute requirements such as the IoT.
The rapid adoption of IoT solutions by business units has introduced a new type of asset – connect sensors. The sensor may need to have firmware updates, or periodic battery replacement, which would require a new level of detail and control within an asset tracking and management system.
<h3>Trend 9: Micro and Edge Computing Environments</h3>
Micro and edge computing executes real-time applications that require high-speed response at the nearer edge servers. The communication delay is shortened to a few milliseconds, rather than several hundred milliseconds. It offloads some of the computation-intensive processing on the user’s device to edge servers and makes application processing less dependent on the device’s capability.
<h3>Trend 10: New Roles in IT</h3>
As IT evolves to adopt these trends, some new positions will be required within the ranks of infrastructure and operations. First and foremost will be the IT cloud broker, responsible for monitoring/management of multiple cloud service providers.
Next will be the IoT architect, tasked with understanding the potential impact of multiple IoT systems on data centers. This architect will also be working with business units to insure their closed loop IoT solutions are either compatible with the central IoT architecture or that common protocols and data structures are used.
There will also be the need for an integration expert which may evolve into an integration team, responsible for insuring integration of new initiatives (e.g. cloud, edge computing, IoT, etc).
<h2>Get Smarter </h2>
Gartner Event Data center issues and IT operations will be further discussed at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations &amp; Data Center Summit 2017 in<a href="http://www.gartner.com/events/pt/la/data-center?cm_sp=swg-_-event-_-datacenterbrazil"> Sao Paulo, Brazil</a>,<a href="http://www.gartner.com/events/apac/data-center-india?cm_sp=swg-_-event-_-datacenterindia"> Mumbai, India</a>,<a href="http://www.gartner.com/events/apac/data-center?cm_sp=swg-_-event-_-datacenteraustralia"> Sydney, Australia</a>, and at the Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure and Operations Management Summit 2017 in<a href="http://www.gartner.com/events/emea/data-center?cm_sp=swg-_-event-_-datacenteremea"> London</a> and<a href="http://www.gartner.com/events/na/data-center?cm_sp=swg-_-event-_-datacenterna"> Las Vegas</a>. Follow news and updates from these events on Twitter using<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GartnerDC&amp;src=typd"> #GartnerDC</a>.
These topics will also be discussed at the<a href="http://www.gartner.com/events/na/infrastructure-operations-management?cm_sp=swg-_-event-_-infrastructurena"> Gartner IT Operations Strategies &amp; Solutions Summit 2017</a> taking place May 8-10 in Orlando and at the<a href="http://www.gartner.com/events/emea/infrastructure-operations-management?cm_sp=swg-_-event-_-infrastructureemea"> Gartner IT Infrastructure &amp; Operations Management Summit 2017</a>, June 12-13 in Frankfurt, Germany. Follow news and updates from these events on Twitter using<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GartnerIOM&amp;src=typd"> #GartnerIOM</a>. Mon, 09 Jan 2017 21:21:40 +1300 http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/top-10-technology-trends-impacting-infrastructure-and-operations/ LTE for the IoT Unscrambling the Signal http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/lte-for-the-iot-unscrambling-the-signal/ Last year we took a look at the raft of new <a href="http://www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20150907-lpwa" target="_blank">low-power wide-area (LPWA)</a> protocols being deployed to handle Internet-of-Things (IoT) data traffic. Why not the cellular system that already exists? Because IoT data characteristics, consisting mostly of short upload data bursts, are dramatically different from the data-heavy content that has historically been targeted to run over the cellular infrastructure.
Cellular data capabilities were originally built to solve the heavy data problem and, as such, have not been well optimized – or priced – for sparse data use. So now we have these entirely new cellular systems, constructed with the IoT in mind, being deployed alongside the existing cellular equipment.
Well, you can imagine the mobile folks not being crazy about sitting back and watching data from a burgeoning new industry moving to other systems. So they’ve defined their own IoT-oriented variations of the LTE data protocol to provide a reason for folks to stick with standard cellular for their IoT needs. That’s pretty straightforward, but the challenge I found was in trying to sort through a variety of shorthand names – Cat0, Cat1, CatM1, eMTC, NB-IoT. And more.
So my goal here is to try to untangle some of what’s going on – without having to understand the entire cellular system (which is extraordinarily complex). An obvious benefit of standard cellular is that infrastructure is already in place and it can use licensed spectrum – unlike many other protocols, which rely on unlicensed industrial/scientific/medical (ISM) bands that impose limitations. But it also means that the IoT stuff has to play nicely with the existing phone-oriented protocols; they’re not starting with a blank sheet of paper.
For those of us who don’t follow the intimate details of what happens in the cellular world, there are two broad generations of cellular that address this, driven by the 3G Partnership Project, better known as 3GPP. It’s slightly confusing since, despite the name, the organization’s scope goes far beyond the third generation cell-phone standards.
They issue regular releases of their specs as they add capabilities and features. Right now we’re in the 4G era, and the first IoT protocols apply to this generation. Then there’s the great hope for the IoT, at least in cellular-land: the future 5G standard. We’ll touch on both of these.
What’s in 4G
The release that we’re interested in here is the most recent, Release 13. But there’s some holdover from Release 12 that bears mentioning. Notably, there’s a Cat0 category in place already, and it appears to be for low-end use. That said, the most interesting stuff came out of Release 13, and it would seem that Cat0 has quietly disappeared. Comparisons now show the new IoT protocols as compared to Cat1, not Cat0. In fact, I just did a search on both a whitepaper and a presentation that deal with these topics, and the term “Cat0” doesn’t show up anywhere.
So… I’ll include some comparison for completeness and clarity, but, apparently, we can banish Cat0 from our thinking. (Qualcomm confirmed that Cat0 is pretty much deprecated now.)
There’s also a notion from the Release 12 days of LTE-M. LTE, of course, stands for “long-term evolution,” and, for practical purposes, it largely refers to the data-carrying capabilities of the cellular system. The “M” stands for “machine,” and this appears to have been something of a placeholder for what would come next. You might think of it as an umbrella term for the various IoT-related protocols; as far as I can tell, there is no specific LTE-M protocol. In Qualcomm’s words, it’s more of a marketing term.
I’ve also seen a mention of NB-LTE-M as an even simpler protocol than LTE-M, where NB stands for “narrowband.” It would be another overlay on LTE, but, as with Cat0, there’s no mention of it in the materials that Qualcomm (a major 3GPP player) uses to describe the cellular approach to the IoT. Here again, they describe it as a marketing term.
What we do have are two new versions of data handling: Cat-M1 (also referred to as eMTC) and Cat-NB1, also known as NB-IoT (and I’ve seen comments suggesting it might be renamed Cat-M2 – confused yet?). To start with, a big distinction between the two is that Cat-M1 overlays LTE, while NB-IoT doesn’t. It does, however, how shall we say?... dance with LTE.
The goal of all of these variants is to reduce both the cost of carrying data and the cost of designing the radios into the kinds of low-end equipment that might show up as edge nodes in the IoT. So Cat-M1 sacrifices some bandwidth as compared to Cat1 and Cat0.
NB-IoT is a rather different beast, since it’s not really an LTE standard. It doesn’t support things like cell handover, and it can be implemented on a variety of frequencies. It can be placed in-band, coexisting with LTE data; it can be placed in the guardband between LTE channels; and it can be placed somewhere completely different, which they refer to as stand-alone. There’s talk about “re-farmed” – that is, re-used – old 2G and 3G spectra as being one place where these stand-alone channels can be placed.
The following table summarizes the high-level capabilities of the various variants.
<img alt="Table.png" src="http://www.eejournal.com/files/cache/69c498ff82cfc5dd7431645fa18e3569.png" width="550" height="142"/> There are also a couple of power-saving features that have come along with these new categories, out of respect for the low-power requirements of IoT edge devices. One is called, intuitively enough, power-saving mode (PSM).*This seems to be hard info to find. I’ve seen Cat1 described both as supporting and not supporting MIMO in different sources. Given that point, Cat0 being single antenna is my speculation; if deprecated, it’s moot.
Normally, once a device is done sending data, it goes into idle mode. During idle mode, it continues to be reachable by the network. With PSM, the device gets a stay-awake time from the network; during that time, it remains in idle mode. After that time elapses, the device can go to sleep and will no longer be reachable by the network. Wake-up happens when the device is ready to wake up; the network is unable to wake the device up.
The other is called eDRX, for “extended discontinuous receive.” This alternative gives the network a way to initiate communication with a sleeping device. In this case, the device and the network agree on a specific sleep time, which has been extended to as long as 40 minutes. At that point, the device wakes up again to check for messages, after which it can go back to sleep for another 40 minutes (or whatever). There’s nothing that requires the device to stay asleep for all that time; it can awaken and start a conversation. It’s just that, unlike PSM, this ensures that the network has a way to wake the device up.
Looking to 5G
All of this is really a prelude to the real show: 5G, which is due in the 2020 timeframe for commercial availability. And you might see yet another TLA here (where, for this instance, “T” stands for “two”): 5G NR. That would be “new radio.” As in, they’re defining a new radio interface for this generation.
The spectrum for 5G is really broad, including licensed, shared licensed, and unlicensed spectra. The overall range goes from sub-GHz to about 6 GHz and millimeter wave territory. One of the outcomes of this is a seemingly impenetrable notion of “scalable numerology.” I know what scalable means, and I thought I knew what numerology was, except that it has nothing to do with cell phones. I still haven’t found an official definition of “numerology” for this context, but here’s my take.
Normally, with a normal narrower band of frequencies, you divide the band into subcarriers or channels or whatever, typically with guardband in between to avoid interference. These channels normally have a fixed bandwidth – say, 20 MHz. But with a broad spectrum, having a fixed subcarrier size doesn’t really make sense. The channels will be either too small at the top end or too large at the bottom end. So the idea here is that the subcarrier width will vary – smaller at low frequencies, larger at high frequencies.
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Scalable Numerology
(Image courtesy Qualcomm)
Based on this definition of “scalable numerology,” I have to deduce that plain-old “numerology” refers to how the overall band is divided into sub-bands.
One of the capabilities they’re going to include is the ability to send data without going through the whole scheduling thing that’s normally part of the LTE process now. They sometimes refer to it as “grant-free” access, and it involves a new uplink technology called RSMA: Resource Spread Multiple Access.
The idea here is that any device can asynchronously start to transmit. But these aren’t orthogonal channels, so, presumably, they’ll need to check for traffic before starting a transmission to be sure that they don’t clobber someone else’s message.
They’re also looking at some meshing capability, where a message uplink might not come from a device itself, but from one of its neighbors. This can help when IoT devices are placed somewhere with poor coverage to the cell tower.
Those are the most obvious things that affect the IoT. There are plenty of other changes that 5G brings, but they’re out of scope for this discussion.
So… bottom line: Cat-M1 and NB-IoT will rule the IoT roost for a while, to be superseded someday by 5G. More on these changes as they happen… Mon, 09 Jan 2017 21:19:37 +1300 http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/lte-for-the-iot-unscrambling-the-signal/ The Ethernet ecosystem today is driven by applications, not speed alone http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/the-ethernet-ecosystem-today-is-driven-by-applications-not-speed-alone/ For many years, Ethernet evolution was characterized by the “need for speed” as networks and data centers sought higher and higher throughput. But over time, Ethernet has found its way into applications unforeseen by the developers of the original specification, resulting in a broad and varied Ethernet ecosystem. Today the desire to bring the advantages of Ethernet into new applications necessitates a new approach where the needs of the application are considered first and foremost in defining new Ethernet incarnations.
In this new paradigm, the Ethernet roadmap combines new and existing data rates with other attributes to meet various applications’ requirements. Considerations can include distance, environmental factors, acquisition vs. operational cost, longevity vs. fast time to market, ease of use and flexibility, physical infrastructure reuse and even the size and weight of the cabling. In use cases ranging from industrial processes to security to connected cars, Ethernet is increasingly enabling your lifestyle, safety and productivity.
<h3>New Ethernet applications</h3>
Two new Ethernet specifications illustrate the application-driven approach for the automotive environment, which requires lightweight cabling and robustness in the face of harsh environmental conditions. The IEEE 802.3bw-2015 100BASE-T1 and IEEE 802.3bp-2016 1000BASE-T1 standards provide 100 Mb/s and 1000 Mb/s Ethernet over a single twisted pair copper cable in the “connected car” and mark the entry of Ethernet into vehicular applications to connect the growing number of intelligent devices found there. 
As the number of connected devices in a vehicle design increases, the more valuable it becomes to provide the automotive industry with an in-vehicle, homogenous network architecture, and Ethernet serves that purpose very well. Enthusiasm appears to be high in this area, as industry discussion is already addressing the topic of “what’s next?” for automotive Ethernet.
Don’t be surprised, but the answer may be to go both faster and slower. The most cost and power sensitive devices, without a lot of data to move, may benefit from a single-pair 10 Mb/s specification. On the other hand, connecting sensors and compute resources for autonomous, self-driving vehicles will cause the bandwidth needs to surge well past 1 Gb/s, and Ethernet may be put to work once again to fill this need. Extending this idea even further, the IEEE 802.3 10 Mb/s Single Twisted Pair Ethernet Study Group is focused on bringing Ethernet protocol with lower costs and longer reaches to industrial automation, building automation and automotive applications.
Although we primarily consider Ethernet to be a data network protocol, consider Ethernet’s utility in moving electric power along the same copper cable as the network data, referred to as Power over Ethernet (PoE). PoE has long been used as a means to power wireless access points, security cameras and IP telephones. Now, new PoE specifications are in the works to provide higher power and more efficient PoE on 4-pair cabling, as well as providing PoE over the single pair cabling used by 100/1000BASE-T1.
Currently, 4-Pair PoE is being standardized by the IEEE P802.3bt task force to deliver power over all 4 twisted pairs, versus the two pairs in current PoE and PoE+ technology. On one hand, this higher power PoE capability will enable higher bandwidth applications, such as higher speed wireless access points. On the flip side, this capability can also be used where little data transmission is needed, such as intelligent lighting systems.
To complement 100BASE-T1 and 1000BASE-T1 networks, IEEE P802.3bu is specifying power delivery over the same single pair cable used for data for applications in internal automotive networks. The goal here is reducing the weight and cost of wiring harnesses – one of the heaviest items in an automotive bill of materials.
<h3>New applications in traditional markets</h3>
As Ethernet has progressed into new application areas, the existing infrastructure needs of enterprise campus applications have also driven a choice of speed. Serving this need, IEEE Std 802.3bz-2016 defines 2.5 Gb/s and 5 Gb/s MAC operating speeds, and 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T PHYs operating over category 5e, category 6, or better cabling. The technology is already in products where it allows users to realize greater data bandwidth from the 70+ billion meters of installed cabling while also supporting PoE for our beloved wireless access points.
What’s next in this whirlwind of new Ethernet applications and corresponding standards?
This most versatile and adaptable protocol continues to evolve. Don’t worry – the need for speed is still there, and development is underway to specify Ethernet links at 50/100/200/400Gbps, from a few inches to tens of kilometers in reach. This is where the network adrenaline junkies thrive, putting to work the latest in electrical and optical signaling technologies in that robust and cost effective form that we call Ethernet. Undoubtedly, the diverse, even currently unimagined networking needs of the Internet of Things (IoT) will drive new Ethernet applications as well.
A standard that began life over 30 years ago to connect computers to printers at 10 Mb/s continues to evolve to serve myriad new applications, with no end in sight.
About the author: Chalupsky is a Principal Engineer in Intel’s Data Center Group focusing on Ethernet products, IP, and standards development. With Intel since 1988, Dave has held a variety of hardware development and engineering management roles, which began with single board industrial computer design. An active contributor to the advancement of the Ethernet ecosystem, he is a Director of the Ethernet Alliance and the NBASE-T Alliance, and chairs the Ethernet Alliance BASE-T subcommittee. He sits on the advisory board for the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL), and previously chaired two BASE-T-related standards development projects in IEEE 802.3. Mon, 09 Jan 2017 21:15:08 +1300 http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/the-ethernet-ecosystem-today-is-driven-by-applications-not-speed-alone/ Hikvision Certified http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/hikvision-certified/ <img class="leftAlone" src="http://www.teltrac.co.nz/assets/Uploads/HIKVISIONCERTIFIED.jpg" width="308" height="97" alt="" title=""/>
Teltrac are pleased to announce that our relationship with Hikvision has recently been enhanced by gaining the status of "Hikvision Certified Security Associate". Teltrac employees have gained this HCSA qualification, this ensures that you get expertise all the way from the CCTV design through to implementation and user training.
 
Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. is the worlds largest supplier of video surveillance products and solutions. Established in 2001, Hikvision employs over 13,000 employees, including a research and development staff of more than 4,000.
Hikvision’s product offerings include hybrid DVRs, NVRs, standalone DVRs, digital video servers, compression cards, high-definition IP cameras and speed domes.
The company is headquartered in Hangzhou , China, Hikvision has expanded to a global operation with regional branch offices in Los Angeles covering the Americas; Amsterdam covering Europe; Dubai for the Middle East; joint ventures in India and Russia; as well as a maintenance center in Hong Kong. Fri, 09 Oct 2015 13:31:47 +1300 http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/hikvision-certified/ What is an Intelligent Infrastructure Solution? http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/what-is-an-intelligent-infrastructure-solution/ Successful businesses must be able to depend on IT infrastructure that’s fast, flexible and able to adapt quickly to fast-changing market trends in our 24-hour world. At the same time, these businesses must also minimize expensive downtime. Considering that almost a third of downtime can be attributed to human error, a better-managed network should display greater independence and intelligence, proactively alerting administrators to small problems before they become big expensive problems.
 
On top of all this, a better-managed network must bend the cost curve to its advantage, both in the short and long term. This means reducing the network’s energy and space requirements as well as mapping out an intelligent upgrade path. A better-managed network must deliver all these advantages so businesses can stay ahead of a fast-changing marketplace—and ahead of the competition. 
This is where an intelligent infrastructure solution comes into play. An intelligent infrastructure solution is a combination of software, network connections and sensors in the data center that provide updated documentation that can take the guesswork out of what cables are connected where, making the job of managing networks much easier. They will also assist with finding a device’s physical location in the network with an IP device discovery. Because these solutions can help to diagnose and resolve problems quickly, they minimize costly downtime and improve the total quality experience of the data center. 
Intelligent infrastructure solutions give technicians and IT managers the ability to improve speed and accuracy of connectivity changes to various end-devices such as computers and servers, wireless access points, IP phones, IP cameras, network printers, managed switches and power distribution units globally from one location. 
With an intelligent infrastructure, customers can deploy and evolve their platform to accommodate future change while enabling better alignment of their IT with their business operations through a high degree of flexibility, allowing them to change business strategies to adapt to rapidly changing global, economic and market trends. Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:11:09 +1300 http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/what-is-an-intelligent-infrastructure-solution/ CommScope to Buy TE Connectivity Unit for $3 Billion http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/commscope-to-buy-te-connectivity-unit-for-3-billion/ The CommScope Holding Company, a telecommunications equipment maker, has agreed to buy a unit of TE Connectivity for $3 billion in cash, in a bet on consumers’ continuing hunger for communicating over data networks.
CommScope, which makes equipment for wireless operators to bolster their networks, as well as connectivity products for data centers, said the deal would add to its existing business and help it expand in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The TE Connectivity unit it is acquiring makes fiber optic cables and other equipment for telecommunications, enterprise and wireless networks.
Shares of CommScope rose about 9 percent in morning trading on Wednesday, giving the company a market capitalization of $5.2 billion. TE Connectivity shares rose 7 percent, for a market capitalization of $28.1 billion.
The deal centers on the infrastructure that powers the age of mobile devices and constant connectivity. CommScope, which is headed by Marvin S. Edwards Jr., is essentially hoping to increase its capacity to carry these signals over its networks.
“Any time you want to talk or communicate,” Mr. Edwards, who is known as Eddie, said in an interview, “we provide the solutions and products to enable that to happen.”
TE Connectivity, for its part, said the deal would allow it to focus more on its sensor technology business, particularly when it comes to so-called harsh environments like the ocean floor or the bottom of a mine.
The unit it is selling, known as broadband network solutions, generated revenue of $1.9 billion in its 2014 fiscal year. CommScope said it expected the deal to generate at least $150 million in annual savings in the third year after it closes.
CommScope, which had its <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/10/25/commscope-backed-by-carlyle-has-a-rocky-debut/">public market debut</a> in 2013, is still controlled by the Carlyle Group, the private equity firm that bought it for $3 billion in 2010. It is based in Hickory, N.C.
CommScope, which is aiming to close the deal by the end of this year, said it planned to use up to $3 billion of debt to finance the transaction. In theory, that means the entire price could be financed through debt.
Allen &amp; Company, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Deutsche Bank are providing financial advice to CommScope, while Alston &amp; Bird; Latham &amp; Watkins; Baker &amp; McKenzie; and Jones Day are its legal advisers.
Centerview Partners, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup are the financial advisers for TE Connectivity, while Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett; Allen &amp; Overy; and Sutherland Asbill &amp; Brennan are its legal advisers. Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:50:24 +1300 http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/commscope-to-buy-te-connectivity-unit-for-3-billion/ Finding the weak link in your cabling http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/finding-the-weak-link-in-your-cabling/ It’s a commonly known fact in the cabling industry that patch cords can be the “weak link” in any end-to-end infrastructure solution. Like anything in life, weak links need to be repaired in order for any solution to work effectively.
Historically, many businesses focused on the cable performance when making decisions on infrastructure. However, as cabling systems have evolved, connectors and patch cords have become significant contributors to deteriorating efficiency. The fine tuning of these high performance components is required to enable reliable, predictable performance every time, needing to be tuned not only to each other, but also variation control techniques.
<h3>Overcoming ‘weak link’ concerns when designing patch cords</h3>
Patch cords are constructed with flexible cordage and a modular (RJ45) plug at each end. In order to deliver optimal performance, the characteristics of the cordage are carefully matched to the plug, including jacket type, thickness and overall outer diameter. The orientation of the pairs at each end prior to termination, the twist rate, the insulation diameter and the conductor diameter are among many others characteristics that need to be considered when designing a patch cord.
A poorly assembled plug will deliver an inconsistent performance and may even exhibit intermittent continuity – a network manager’s worst nightmare! In some extreme cases, badly assembled plugs have even been known to damage the contact pins in cabling or switch ports, for example when the plug ‘blades’ are loose, too high or out of alignment.
The arrangement of each cable pair inside the plug must also be carefully controlled. This enables system vendors such as CommScope to tune jacks and plugs to achieve optimal performance, above that of the minimum standard requirements.
Using just ‘any patch cord’ in a system may not only degrade performance but may prove to be a costly mistake in the event of a system failure. Any system is only a sum of it’s parts, so ineffective parts can cause many more problems that you might initially expect. Mon, 06 Oct 2014 13:30:00 +1300 http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/finding-the-weak-link-in-your-cabling/ WINNING NEWS http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/winning-news-2/ Scenic Hotel Group adopt iPECS solutions
Atlas Gentech, distributor of Ericsson-LG Enterprise in New Zealand, installed iPECS-LIK systems at Scenic Hotel Group (SHG), operating 17 hotels throughout New Zealand and Tonga as communications systems. Ericsson-LG Enterprise iPECS-LIK solution implemented across all hotels in the group &amp; for the head office . Key components include iPECS attendant, SIP trunking, Fidelio integration and iPECS CCS for the Reservations &amp; Customer Care team at head office.
 SHG operated legacy Nortel Meridian phone systems at many of their hotels. While these had proven reliable and suited to the hotel industry in the past, replacement parts, upgrades, support and licencing costs had become a major hurdle. Hotels can have a large number of extensions, many rarely used and generating little or no income. SHG needed to replace its aging PABXs with modern, hospitality proven, low cost of ownership solutions. The new solution needed to be easy to use, work with existing room phones, run over existing wiring and interface into our Property Management System. The guest room phones are all analogue, with many only having 2-wire cable running to them. Support for legacy wiring and handsets was an absolute must.
As one of new Zealand’s leading hospitality brands SHG have high levels of expectation and customer service, The proven track record of Ericsson-LG Enterprise GDK &amp; IPLDK products provided confidence in Ericsson-LG Enterprise &amp; The capabilities of the solution aided the group to enhance their services to guests. The modular nature of the system allows for easy maintenance when combined with iPECS native web admin &amp; NMS.
Additionally, SHG get the advantages from Ericsson-LG Enterprise solutions like a better TCO, more cost effective trunking, Ease of management through NMS. Improvements in call handling and reporting for the contact centre. Wed, 03 Sep 2014 16:22:01 +1200 http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/winning-news-2/ Huawei Releases Data Center 3.0 Architecture White Paper http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/huawei-releases-data-center-3-0-architecture-white-paper/ <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 15.75pt; line-height: 19.5pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[Shenzhen, China, July 23, 2014]: Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today released a white paper entitled "Data Center (DC) 3.0 Architecture" that highlights Huawei’s strengths in the accumulation of future research of computer architecture and data centers.
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 15.75pt; line-height: 19.5pt; overflow: hidden; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">In the DC 3.0 architecture white paper, Huawei describes per capita consumption data as a barometer of social development and discusses the series of challenges faced by existing data centers in preparing for future big data processing, for example in real-time PB/s level data processing PB/s, on-demand dynamic resource allocation and adjustments, and optimizing the energy efficiency of large-scale systems. As a solution, Huawei proposes data-centric High Throughput Computer DC 3.0 architecture to build next-generation data centers, via core technologies such as resource pooling, hardware decoupling, optical interconnects and data center-level programming frameworks. Using non-volatile memory and silicon photovoltaic technology to achieve high-bandwidth low-latency network memory as a service and unity in internal and external memory, the DC 3.0 architecture breaks the traditional input/output bottlenecks, while providing more fine-grained resource management and server configuration to resolve fragmentation and improve resource utilization rates. Through this series of technological innovations, Huawei aims to provide an enhanced platform for future large-scale data processing, in order to achieve real-time data processing per second PB level and energy efficiency that is more than 10 times that of existing systems.
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 15.75pt; line-height: 19.5pt; overflow: hidden; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Huawei's DC 3.0 architecture white paper was pre-released at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) held on June 14-18, 2014, at which it received a positive response from the industry and academia.
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 15.75pt; line-height: 19.5pt; overflow: hidden; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Huawei's continued investment and innovation in the IT field has seen it evolve from the position as industry "challenger" to that of industry "innovator". Huawei is committed to continuing its focus on the future development of IT to build core competitiveness, and to provide customers with future-oriented business solutions.
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 15.75pt; line-height: 19.5pt; overflow: hidden; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Huawei’s DC 3.0 Architecture White Paper can be accessed via the following link:<a style="outline: none;" href="http://www.huawei.com/en/industry/huawei-voices/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.huawei.com/en/industry/huawei-voices/index.htm</a> Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:54:52 +1200 http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/huawei-releases-data-center-3-0-architecture-white-paper/ New Phone System Released http://www.teltrac.co.nz/news/new-phone-system-released/ 
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Teltrac are pleased to annouce the new phone system on the market from Ericsson-LG, the eMG80 will be a direct replacement for the hugely popular Aria 24ip system. This system will fit nicely into the SMB marketplace and comes complete with all the very latest IP technologies and features. For the month of August if you call 0800 TELTRAC and mention that you have seen this item on the website we will arrange a no obligation quotation and apply a special 15% discount of the total cost!
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Teltrac to install Ericsson-LG iPECS into Scenic Hotel group
The voice services team at Teltrac have secured a contract to replace 10 phone systems around New Zealand for the Scenic Hotel Group. Teltrac will install the iPECS MFIM 300 and 600 systems to replace the customers old legacy equipment. The upgrade includes switching the phone lines to SIP trunks and fully intergrating with the hotels PMS systems. The iPECS phone system has specially designed hotel software to make use of all the usual hotel featues like wake-up calls, toll barr phones on check-out, guest name phone display, ETC. We are working with Scenic Hotel Group for the new systems to be installed and cut-over all within the month of June. The head office in Christchurch is also part of the upgrade and will feature IP call recording and the latest cutting edge Contact Centre Software for thier reservations team.
 
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