10 Advantages of Telect Overhead Fiber Tray

Just like highways support cars and traffic, management trays are designed to support communication cables. As the condition of the road affects the traverse of our vehicles, so too does the quality and design of the tray affect the performance of our cables. Cost is one of the biggest considerations in any structured cabling installation and must be weighed against the quality of any individual component. In the case of Overhead Fiber Cable Management here are 10 advantagesand benefits associated with the use of Telect WaveTrax Express.

1) Works for both new fiber builds and existing layouts.

2) Easy tool-free installation with ratcheting bracket.

3) Reduces installation time by up to 75%.

4) Simplifies design layouts. 

5) Expansion requires no cutting. 

6) Installs anywhere along the fiber trough. 

7) Eliminates foreign object debris when installing. 

8) Universal design fits Telect, TE, and Panduit® fiber ducting solutions.

9) Manufactured in North America.   

10) Available in 4, 6 and 12 inch troughs.  

"Say goodbye to specialized tools, cutting trough, and predesigned layouts," Eric Ballew, Telect's Director of Fiber, said. "Get your network cable management on the fast track."

Whether installing a new build or expanding an existing design, WaveTrax Express™ trumps the complicated pre-planning associated with traditional fiber ducting builds. WaveTrax Express™ is the universal solution for expanding overhead cable management systems, compatible with Telect, TE, and Panduit® fiber trough systems. 

For more information on Telect products call 1-800-427-2055. 

You can also visit the Telect YouTube page to see the product in action orDownload the ordering guide.

• Data Center
• Fiber Optic Networks
• Cable Management

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Reducing Data Center Downtime

Much like cars, Data Centers rely on several things to keep them running. Every manager’s nightmare is having to deal with an outage and in the recent 5 years the costs for outages has increased by 38%.

 Just like cars, Data Centers require maintenance and up keep. In both environments batteries are an essential component that must be monitored. For a car having a dead battery means it won’t run, but for the networking environment not so much.

So what’s the big deal?

In a recent article 2016 Cost of Data Center Outages released by Emerson and the Ponemon Institute indicated that UPS system failures accounted for a staggering 25% of all unplanned downtime.  Which means these outages did not need to occur in the first place and could have been avoided had the organizations put in place a proactive monitoring system and a Preventive Maintenance Program. 

For example, Emerson’s paper, The Effect of Regular, Skilled Preventive Maintenance on Critical Power System Reliability shows that the Mean Time between Failures (MTBF) for UPS units that received two preventive maintenance (PM) service events per year is 23 times higher than a machine with no PM service events per year. That’s a big difference. But it is important to keep in mind that PM is only as effective as the technicians performing it. Working with service providers who understand mission-critical data center equipment and who stay up to date with their technical training is a critical element of any effective PM plan. 

Emerson Network Power is committed to assisting organizations mitigate this risk with multiple solutions, including:

1. Their Power Assurance Program to safeguard small IT sites.

 2. UPS Battery Monitoring solutions to extend battery life, reduce maintenance and increase safety.

 3. Uptime monitoring solutions including software and UPS management options.

 4. They also have a breadth of UPS products that meets the needs of different sized environments. 

To learn more about how Datcom and Emerson can assist you with your power monitoring requirements call Ed for a consultation at

1-800-427-2055. 

Read Critical Systems deserve more than a battery back-up to learn more about why availability is so important.

Mission-critical infrastructure threats.

As densities within Data Centers become more concentrated the environments that they are being deployed in are becoming more critical. Not only is power consumption an issue, but ensuring equipment’s optimum performance and longevity are the key to protecting your hardware investment.

Heat, humidity and moisture pose a sever threat to Data Center infrastructure and monitoring these factors goes a long way to minimizing equipment failure and outages while extending equipment life span.

Integrating automatic alerts, video surveillance and logging trends is a proactive exercise that will allow you to make adjustments to the day to day environment and could save you replacement costs due to catastrophic events, such as broken water pipes.

Geist's environmental monitors enable you to keep an eye on remote conditions in critical areas for environmental factors including temperature, humidity, airflow, light, sound, door position, power and much more. And provide alerts for abnormal conditions via Email, SMS & SNMP traps.

Whether you have a single computer room or a multi-location infrastructure, maintaining vigilance over your network could mean the difference between hours of downtime and weeks. Most businesses cannot afford this type of failure and should integrate this type of technology within their disaster recovery policies.

Additional White Papers:

Why Monitoring is important for disaster recovery planning.

"Sensoring" the Data Center

Learn more by visiting http://www.datcominc.com/sections/environmental-monitoring.html

To get a free onsite consultation email eds@datcominc.com or call today 1-800-427-2055

Cutting Cooling Costs.

One of the biggest concerns within the Data Center when it comes to operational costs is cooling. As electricity prices and IT power consumption continue to rise, IT-related energy costs are getting increased scrutiny.

With the adoption of virtualization many organization are experiencing the shrinking Data Center Syndrome. Put simply they are now cooling rooms that are too large for the equipment being housed in them.  

As cooling accounts for approximately 37 percent or more of electricity usage within a  data center having a remedy represents a significant opportunity to reduce IT energy costs.

Here are 5 Strategies for decreasing cooling costs. 

1. Avoid the mixing of hot and cold air.
2. Monitoring the environment and automatically adjust the CRAC units.
3. Ensure efficient return of hot air to HVAC systems.
4. Unblock raised floors from any impedance.
5. Segregate unused space under the floor and in the white space.

Together these methods can reduce cooling system energy costs and generate significant, recurring savings.

Learn more about SmartAsile containment

Learn more about SmartSoutions

To get a free onsite consultation email eds@datcominc.com or call today 1-800-427-2055

Benefits of deploying engineered links in the Data Center.

Due to the critical nature of business, many mission critical data center installations are conducted on weekends or evenings to minimize network downtime and disruption. Flexibility and growth are driving factors when it comes to these complex environments which have led to the growing popularity of scalable and modular structured cabling solutions. Pre-terminated cabling systems were designed specifically to accomplish these objectives. 

Here are some of the main benefits when considering RapidNet: 

• Ensured performance, factory tested
• Supports both fiber and copper mediums
• Supports Migration from 1GbE, 10GbE, 40GbE to 100GbE
• Faster installations, more than 85% faster than traditional field-terminated assemblies
• Minimized network downtimes and lessened security risks
• Immediate and continuing return of investment
• Available as a Zero U Solution
• Improved cable management and cost-effective work force utilization
• Flexibility for a variety of applications
• Easier and more accurate job estimations

RapidNet is a pre-terminated cabling solution that provides data centers with the reliability and flexibility they require to increase density and bandwidth, maximize processing capacity, address space constraints, and reduce operational costs. Suitable applications include: Mission Critical Data Centers, Central Offices, CATV Headends, Enterprise Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Redundancy Planning, and Temporary Networks.

This pre-terminated, pre-tested solution leaves no excess waste, provides a lower cost of ownership, and minimizes downtime while maintaining reliability.

Check out the product video and customer testimonials below.

To get a free onsite consultation email eds@datcominc.com or call today 1-800-427-2055

• Data Center
• Fiber Optic Networks
• Copper Cabling