There was a time when each of your employees had no more than a computer. The user-to-device ratio was one-to-one. But look around you today. What do you see? Wireless devices, IP telephones, IP security cameras, IP building controls, and more—all converged on the same network. The number of applications supported by a single network has grown tenfold. According to premier research provider IDC, nearly three-quarters of global organizations are expected to migrate to a fully converged enterprise by the end of 2008.+. | Data Center Infrastructure Design Quick-Start Guide Infrastructure for the Converged Enterprise There was a time when each of your employees had no more than a computer. The user-to-device ratio was one-to-one. But look around you today. What do you see Wireless devices IP telephones IP security cameras IP building controls and more all converged on the same network. The number of applications supported by a single network has grown tenfold. According to premier research provider IDC nearly three-quarters of global organizations are expected to migrate to a fully converged enterprise by the end of 2008. Total IP convergence combined with technologies like PoE and 10 Gigabit Ethernet place more demands on your data center than ever before. UTP copper cabling is now as critical as fiber cabling. That calls for products that let both fiber and copper seamlessly coexist in the data center as an integrated solution. Data centers are decidedly different from LANs. The data center supports different equipment applications and bandwidth speeds. They require specialized design greater reliability and manageability and higher density. Data centers in fact even follow their own standard TIA-942. Use this Quick-Start Guide to learn the facts behind TIA-942 and how ADC can support your data center implementation. Connectivity solutions are at the foundation of data center managers ability to maximize their networking investments and provide a stable efficient network architecture. Lucinda Borovick Program Director for IDCs Datacenter Networks program Three Principles of Data Center Infrastructure Design You know your data center is the epicenter of your organization. Without it your entire organization can shut down millions of dollars can be lost in a matter of minutes. Want to lower your total cost of ownership support future growth reduce your risk of downtime maximize performance and improve your ability to reconfigure Then you need to strategically design your data center
