KRONE facts KRONE (Australia) Holdings Pty Limited 2 Hereford Street Berkeley Vale NSW 2261 PO Box 335 Wyong NSW 2259 Phone: 02 4389 5000 Fax: 02 4388 4499 Tech Support: 1800 801 298 Email: kronehlp@krone.com.au Web: krone.com.au Copyright © 2004 KRONE (Australia) Holdings Pty. Limited Job No.: 6167 02/04 10GigaBit Over Copper! Bandwidth Bring It On 10Gigabit Ethernet is an emerging technology offering data speeds up to 10 billion bits per second. This latest standard has been driven not only by the increase in normal data traffic but also by the proliferation of new, bandwidth-intensive applications. At the recent IEEE 10Gigabit/s Ethernet standard working group meeting it was announced that international structured cabling company KRONE had made a breakthrough. The company has demonstrated the first augmented Category 6 cable in the world with the necessary characteristics to enable 10Gigabit/s Ethernet to be implemented over unshielded twisted pair (UTP) to the full 100 meters required for structured cabling systems. The test results on KRONE’s new cable were independently confirmed by one of the leading Ethernet electronics vendors involved in the development of 10Gigabit/s technology and the 10GBASE-T Ethernet standard. Presenting the results, KRONE’s Senior Project Manager Bernie Hammond said, “Our presentation to the IEEE today shows that KRONE has demonstrated its ability to produce a UTP cable that exceeds the requirements outline to run 10Gigabit/s Ethernet over a 100-meter, unshielded twisted-pair copper channel.” Most industry experts had concluded that it would be extremely difficult to overcome the technical combination of insertion loss and alien cross talk, or interference from adjacent cables, with UTP cable - the most prolific type of enterprise networking cable in the world. “By demonstrating that 10Gigabit Ethernet can be achieved over UTP cabling, our engineers have once again demonstrated KRONE’s unmatched commitment to technological innovation,” said KRONE’s President and Chief Operating Officer Ron Lowy. “We are delighted to be the first in the world to reach this remarkable milestone.” This new augmented Cat 6 UTP copper cable was designed and developed at KRONE’s U.S. copper cable-manufacturing facility in Sidney, Nebraska. The cable demonstrated Shannon Capacity of 21Gigabit/s due to the improved alien cross-talk immunity and the reduced insertion loss - which is more than adequate for the 10Gigabit/s Ethernet implementations being considered by the IEEE standard working group. With the onset of IP convergence, bringing a wealth of voice, video and data services to a single cable infrastructure, bandwidth demand hand in hand with network reliability and Quality of Service (QoS), will drive increasing bandwidth requirements to the desktop. The emergence of grid computing will be a key technology that, in the not too distant future, will drive bandwidth requirements into the horizontal cable infrastructure. Grid computing will essentially “cluster” together desktop workstations and PCs to contribute idle CPU cycles to create a large, virtual server where performance scales as more users are added. This technology may supplant centralised servers allowing for the creation of very powerful virtual servers scaling to user requirements. In essence the horizontal network connectivity between desktop workstations becomes an external high speed server bus. Thus the requirement for bandwidth and reliable, error free processing will be pushed out to the desktop network interconnect. Only KRONE’S TrueNet ® zero bit error rate cabling solution coupled with this latest announcement regarding demonstrable 10Gigabit Ethernet capability will provide the necessary infrastructure to enable cost effective grid deployment across organisations. . augmented Cat 6 UTP copper cable was designed and developed at KRONE s U.S. copper cable- manufacturing facility in Sidney, Nebraska. The cable demonstrated. 298 Email: kronehlp @krone. com.au Web: krone. com.au Copyright © 2004 KRONE (Australia) Holdings Pty. Limited Job No.: 6167 02/04 10GigaBit Over Copper! Bandwidth