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2012 will be the year in which the 19in cabinet and the racks they
contain become the key component for thousands of new data centres, according to Cannon Technologies’ Managing Director Matt Goulding. “What was once a straightforward
steel structure is now a sophisticated device that is the critical element in delivering the needs of today’s advanced data centres – namely, equipment housing, power density, cooling, monitoring and security,” Goulding commented. The vast increase in demand for
online information and transactional services is forcing companies to pack the maximum possible processing and memory capacity into every data centre cabinet. “For example, multi-U servers, which
were once standard, are now being replaced by 1U pizza-box servers, and even these are giving way to power hungry blade servers, providing an effective density of many servers per U,” Goulding explains. The result is, heat density is estimated
to have risen from less than 1kW per rack to between 2-5kW, with high end equipment going way beyond that, up to 20 or even 30kW. This has made heat dissipation the
primary issue, one that looks certain to dominate cabinet and rack design for data centres throughout 2012 and beyond. “One thing we can be sure of this
year is that conventional approaches to cooling will not be enough,” Goulding says. “More sophisticated processes like aisle cocooning are needed, and it is vital to install cabinets whose cooling capacity can be easily upgraded over a data centre’s lifetime.” Goulding also predicts that techniques
like iris or thumbprint recognition will become commonplace, as will practices such as restricting access time. Alarms backed up by CCTV, providing the potential for complete audit trails, will also be widely used. The coming year will see cabinets
installed that are powerful processing centres in their own right, so controlling their functionality with advanced software management tools will be crucial.
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a new data centre in the Midlands, UK. Ideally placed with excellent network connectivity, good transport links and a low potential for security risks, the £5 million hosting centre will offer advanced IaaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud-based computing solutions for businesses across the UK. With 144 racks for customer
equipment and Timico’s own virtual infrastructure, there will be more than 14,400TB of storage; equivalent to 2.2MB for every person on the planet. All equipment at the facility is brand
new and powered by a dedicated power sub-station with dual generator backup. Cold aisle containment construction and free-air cooling techniques, as well as VESDA fire detection and suppression systems are employed to provide peace of mind and increased efficiency. The dual 10Gbps internet links are diversely routed and carrier agnostic, to guarantee availability and performance. State of the art physical security protocols such as biometric checks, I.D. tags and CCTV are used to ensure that data is robustly protected. “UK businesses are moving to
virtual computing environments and hosted applications at a pace,” commented CTO Trefor Davies at the launch event. “But they are rightly cautious of mass-market cloud offerings, where their data could be held anywhere in the world. Businesses want the guarantees of private cloud services, hosted safely and securely in the UK.” Timico will now offer dedicated
servers provided by tech giant Dell, Virtual Private Server (VPS) solutions using Cisco and VMware technologies, and Storage Area Networks (SANs) powered by EMC. The launch of the new centre is just
stage one in Timico’s wider strategy to implement high quality cloud-based computing solutions in the UK, with expansion and further investment planned in the near future.
receive a multi-operator, multi-band cellular coverage solution that will extend reliable wireless signals to
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The Rome Metro’s passenger trains and stations are due to
Independent managed service provider Timico has opened
passengers and staff throughout the system’s stations and passenger trains. CommScope has been chosen
by Italian operators Telecom Italia, Vodafone, WIND and H3G to provide and install a multi-operator, multi-band cellular coverage solution throughout the Rome Metro that will extend reliable wireless signals to passengers and staff throughout the system’s stations and passenger trains. Wireless operators face many
challenges in providing service along railways, including tunnels and stations that block or restrict signals, high speed trains that complicate cellular hand-offs, and smartphone users who expect constant access to data services while onboard. Such demands typically require dedicated coverage and capacity solutions to ensure access for commuters and sufficient network capacity for operators. The project will enable 2G and 3G
voice and data services for customers of Telecom Italia, Vodafone, WIND and H3G utilizing the GSM900, GSM1800 and UMTS frequencies utilized by the operators. “Despite the complexities of
providing wireless coverage in moving trains, narrow tunnels and enclosed stations, CommScope expects to quickly implement a successful solution with minimal impact on the existing infrastructure,” commented Samuel Buttarelli, Sales Director. The project will make use of ION,
a scalable fibre-based coverage and capacity solution for indoor and outdoor applications, available in multiple power levels with a unique multi-band, multi-operator platform. CommScope’s off-air repeaters include a full line of pico and micro class RF enhancers and macro class digital nodes. The repeaters provide RF signals for wide area coverage through antennas and are self-diagnosing, self-adaptive and available in multiple power classes. Turn to the wireless feature in this
issue to read more about Commscope and wireless coverage for public transport.
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