One of the most critical aspects of designing a data center is the physical security infrastructure system. Here are five best practices for ensuring that it is effective and compliant: Physical security is much like information security in that it should be viewed in layers. For example, access control systems act as the primary keys to the castle and should use methods that cannot be shared, such as biometric access.
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Siemon 4U LightStack Optimizes High Density Data Centers
Siemon is pleased to announce a 4U version of its LightStack Ultra High Density Fiber System to house to 576 LC fibers or 3456 MTP fibers in just four rack units of space while ensuring superior port access, cable management and fast, seamless migration to advanced 40 and 100 gigabit applications.
Stainless Steel Cable Ties in Harsh Environments
Keeping your communications and power cables properly and safely installed in harsher environments such as Shipbuilding, Oil & Gas, and Chemical processing plants, as well as other similar applications, can be a challenge. However, it needs to be taken very seriously, otherwise the facility and personnel are being placed at elevated risk of injury.
Siemon MAX In-Line Coupler Panel Speeds Deployment and Disaster Recovery
Siemon is pleased to announce a new MAX In-Line Coupler panel with RJ45 connections on both the front and rear of the panel for faster deployments and quick duplication of active equipment ports in a variety of applications…
Segmenting Networks for Security
Historically, there has been little convergence between manufacturing and enterprise in the plant network. Instead, there are multiple, separate networks – one network may run fieldbus protocol at the device level, another network may run ControlNet protocol for machine-to-machine communications, while a third protocol, such as Ethernet, or a proprietary network, links the machines to data acquisition and storage units for reporting or archiving.
Siemon Expands MapIT G2 Automated Infrastructure Management System with the Highest-Performing TERA Solution
Watertown, CT — Siemon is pleased to expand its MapIT G2 Automated Infrastructure Management System with its fully shielded TERA solution.
New NFPA 70E Labeling Requirements
The NFPA 70E Standard provides guidelines for electrical safety in the workplace. Recently this standard has been updated to provide consistency of terms with other standards that address hazards and risk.
Why Is My Cable Pathway Upside Down?
Upside Down Design Can Keep Your Installation Costs Right Side Up One of the most common questions asked about the Wyr-Grid Overhead Cable Pathway System is “why is it upside down?”
Is It Time for the Data Center to See the Light? – EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet (blog)
Deployment of active optical cable (AOC) is on the rise in data center cabling and is expected to maintain an upward trajectory in the coming years. According to market research firm LightCounting, 10 GbE SFP+ AOCs now accounts for a quarter of the overall market, driven primarily by substantial growth in the data center over the past decade or so. Going forward, throughput exceeding 100 G and even 400 G, along with core switching interconnectivity, is expected to push today’s $100 million market to more than $260 million by the end of the decade.
Tips to standardize your next data center move
The majority of processes occur in the same way — no matter the data center in question — he said: “How do you physically move servers, how do you track inventory, how do you power everything down?” A dependency mapping exercise — down … The fiber …
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