Reducing Risks and Costs through High Speed Data Transport Systems

As a CIO you know how important it is that your business be agile and flexible at all times. With the rapid and expansive growth of IP-based communication across converged building, factory, and enterprise communication systems, each point of connection across the physical infrastructure becomes mission-critical.

Panduit understands today's vital business and technology challenges. When managing a data center, interdependencies across systems that create risk can be overlooked - and the potential for risk increases with consolidation of multiple systems and convergence of new technologies.

In this environment businesses across all industries are shifting the way they think about the physical infrastructure.  Traditional infrastructure solutions are changing from an unrelated set of siloed systems to a unified, integrated solution capable of addressing complex business and technology challenges. Critical enterprise systems and the physical infrastructure that supports them need to be integrated to enable greater reliability, agility, and flexibility while also managing operational costs and meeting sustainability goals.

The Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) Approach

Unified Physical Infrastructure^SM (UPI)-based solutions help customers manage risk and change within the physical infrastructure by integrating key elements with solutions that enable systems consolidation and convergence.  Panduit's Data Center Solutions embody the next wave of systems integration and risk management methodologies by aligning and harmonizing critical systems to support the delivery of secure, energy-efficient, real-time data and services. Based on the UPI approach, Panduit's Data Center Solutions deliver maximum flexibility during planning, designing, commissioning and operation of the data center that is both protocol and media agnostic.

This unified approach to physical and logical data center systems architecture is required for solutions to fully address the need for availability, agility, integration and security. The introduction of innovative, integrated infrastructure solutions is necessary to enable converged data applications, greater bandwidth capacities, and realize greater energy and space efficiencies.

High Speed Data Transport (HSDT) Solution Overview

As a part of Panduit's UPI-based Data Center Solutions portfolio, our High Speed Data Transport Solutions help improve the agility, availability, and security of the data center while reducing cost and business risk while increasing sustainability.

Panduit's High Speed Data Transport Solutions allow deployment of complex architectures with maximum throughput performance and low operating costs, including energy and space savings. Interoperable and scalable, these solutions include copper and fiber cabling systems that address the needs for network throughput, latency, thermal management, power consumption and operational efficiency to deliver:

• Maximum infrastructure design flexibility that is both protocol and media agnostic to support a wide array of data center architectures with unmatched network performance
• Flexible, scalable, modular systems with the capability to expand quickly as business needs evolve while providing a migration path to next generation application demands
• Secure and reliable data transmission to enable diverse, mission critical applications
• Maximized real estate utilization and thermal management through high density physical infrastructure solutions combined with leading data center reference architectures that also contribute to green initiatives and energy efficiencies.

With best-in-class physical infrastructure solutions, Panduit provides the broadest range of end-to-end High Speed Data Transport Solutions to enable InfiniBand, FCoE, and 40/100 Gig Ethernet. Designed for data center and high-density/high speed applications, Panduit's HSDT solutions are backed by comprehensive research and development programs to ensure high network performance, systems reliability, energy efficiencies and seamless integration.

Integrated Copper/Fiber Cabling Systems

The deployment of high speed cabling systems has been increasing rapidly as data centers enable their physical infrastructure with 10 Gb/s capacity to support server virtualization, I/O consolidation, switch-up links for parallel processing, and convergence of back-bone links applications. However, customers still have concerns regarding the robustness and overall reliability of these cabling systems.

Most networks require a mixed physical infrastructure with the optimal cabling media striking a balance between bandwidth, flexibility and scalability. Virtualization, high performance computing clusters, storage area networks and I/O consolidation all currently show significant growth of 10 Gig deployment projected over the next five years. An integrated solution includes long-reach fiber moving data at 10 Gb/s across the backbone and between campuses, copper/fiber connecting core and distribution switching and copper connecting 10 Gb/s between servers and switches.

As a thought leader in both fiber and copper cabling systems, Panduit provides a consultative approach to determine the best media selection for current and future applications in mission critical enterprise applications. Panduit Laboratories' extensive research in high speed data transmission results in complementary copper and fiber technologies that deliver maximum bandwidth, unmatched reliability, and design flexibility. Depending on the application, Panduit's Copper and Fiber Cabling Systems are deployed independently or in combination to deliver operational and financial advantages while mitigating risk. These robust, scalable solutions offer quick deployment for building new or updating existing data centers and offer a migration path for future applications.

Panduit's Approach and Value Proposition

As the only vendor in the industry with a tightly integrated UPI-based physical infrastructure solution portfolio for Data Center, IT Enterprise Networking, Connected Buildings, and Industrial Automation, Panduit enables enterprises to Connect, Manage and Automate all communication, computing, control, power and security systems. This comprehensive approach to infrastructure design, deployment and management allows benefits to be realized across the entire enterprise.

Panduit's High Speed Data Transport Systems are integrated with our Cabinet Systems, Thermal Management Systems, and Infrastructure Management Software as part of our comprehensive Data Center Solutions. All of Panduit's solutions meet or surpass rigorous quality management standards to assure compliance with industry requirements. Our unique, robust partner eco-system, combined with our lifecycle services, offer innovative modeling, predictable execution and operational excellence. With application expertise, extensive research and development, and active participation in the IEEE task force and other standards bodies, Panduit has become the trusted category leader in high speed data transport enabling optimized physical infrastructure.

Through this comprehensive, holistic approach to High Speed Data Transport Solutions, Panduit helps take the guesswork out of data center planning and deployment to deliver confidence and proven results, delivering technology leadership with consultative guidance to maximize the impact of the infrastructure throughout the data center lifecycle.