Mix and match leads to muttering

Mixing and matching your preferred components is a successful strategy in so many walks of life. Take the clothes you wear for example. If everything you wore was made by Levi’s then you’d forever look like an extra from The Dukes of Hazzard.

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Cabling professionals often find themselves in all kinds of places, but few can be as extreme as the ice-locked ex-military base, old Spanish chapel, or others making up the Top 10 weirdest data centre locations in the world. Weirder still is the job title of Rick Bakken, Microsoft’s “senior director of data centre evangelism” within its Global Foundation Services department, but his stated aim of improving datacentre efficiency by 75% in just two years is no less impressive.

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In this issue, we meet Key Account Manager Frank Weismueller.  Based near Essen in Western Germany, Frank works closely with endusers and consultants involved in the major enterprise deployments of Corning cabling systems.

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In this issue, Debate Chamber asks the experts to explore the dichotomy of stability versus flexibility in the data centre.  Specifically, we consider the following topic: “Data centre infrastructure should be impervious to disruption, so how can it be flexible to change?”

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Corning launches new online product catalogue

Over 20,000 part numbers, 5,000 new product images, type-ahead search, customized materials list. Go and check it up yourself!

The truth about bending

UL® Verifies Corning® ClearCurve® Multimode OM3 and OM4 Fibers Meet or Exceed Bandwidth Standards.

Networking with us

Thank you again if you attended the Telenet Seminar in Athens last month.

Come and visit us (Stand 31) today or tomorrow at the COMMS EXPO 2011.

Join us for the 4th Blue Helix Golf Day. Send an email to Blue Helix's Pier Benjamin if you plan to attend.

Corning TV

Ever wondered about differential mode delay (DMD)? A Corning expert explains multimode fibre bandwidth in the latest content on the Corning YouTube channel.

Faster fibre optic installation with preterminated optical cabling. Corning Marty Easton shows the wonders of EDGE.

Corning and Lightwave Combine to Mark FTTXcellence

Lightwave magazine and Corning Incorporated have opened nominations to the 8th annual FTTXcellence award. The award recognises the achievements of the leading person in the deployment of optical access networks.

Gorilla Stars in Galaxy

Samsung Electronics’ most powerful smartphone – the GALAXY S II – has become yet another leading consumer device to sport Corning Gorilla Glass as its damage-resistant cover.

Corning Climbs FORTUNE 500

Corning Incorporated has risen 41 places to 350th position in the latest Fortune 500 rankings. Fortune magazine’s annual list ranks the US’ largest corporations based on previous year’s revenues.

In a parallel universe somewhat like our own, Donald Duct is the permanently bemused Managing Director of The Cable Stable, a pan-European supplier of structured cabling, door fixings and hot beverage vending machine solutions for the enterprise IT market.  Cautionary tales from Donald’s true-to-life online diary are reproduced by kind permission, and are not endorsed by anyone of sane mind.

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