contents June 2011
5 Editorial Success stories.
6 Industry News The latest standards news,
partnerships, training news, comment, approvals and forthcoming events in the network infrastructure industry.
12 Talking Point Sinclair Vass of JDSU examines some of the key optical trends we are likely to see during the rest of 2011 and beyond.
14 On the case Who is putting what in where.
17 CRC En ergy Effi ciency Scheme Harry Forbes of Nexans discusses what changes to the CRC Scheme mean for network and data centre managers.
22 Project Focus
Russell Drury talks to Marco Cable Management about its work at Ribby Hall Holiday Village.
38 Essential Selection The latest products available to installers and end users.
Special Feature: Data centres
25 OM4 in the data centre Carsten Fehr of Draka Data Communications looks at how OM4 is perfectly poised to accelerate the move to 10 Gigabit Ethernet in the data centre.
42 Know How 21 Competition
Win £400 worth of Love2shop vouchers courtesy of Networks Centre.
Jason Preston of 2bm provides 10 top tips for improving data centre effi ciency.
29 Data centres round up A comprehensive round up of the data centre related products available to installers and end users.
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