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How India's getting wired

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market

for structured cabling products has remained more or less flat

due to the cautious approach by enterprise buyers in the light of the

slowdown. This was almost evident across all verticals. In terms of

technologies and bandwidth demands, India appeared to be at par with

the developed world. The market became clearly segmented into

commodity products (Cat 5), mainstream products (Cat 6 and Cat 6A),

and emerging products (Cat 7).

On the copper front, enterprises

started to look at the possibility of sustaining 10G over 100 meters.

Vendors also successfully demonstrated this to their customers. The

market progressed towards 10 Gb over Ethernet during FY '10 the last

year, but this remained somewhat confined to datacenter deployments.

Hospitals, remote sensing agencies, and manufacturing organizations

that use CAD/CAM applications with high bandwidth requirements saw

some good business. The hospitality, government, and education sector

also showed growth; telecom too grew with the setting up of new

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On the fiber front, the last year saw an increase in the fiber

content of enterprise networks, particularly with the datacenters

being set up by organizations.

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was also

a drop in cable prices due to decline in copper prices and severe

setback due to fluctuations in exchange as well as other commodities.
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Rapid growth of infrastructure, across verticals over the years had

seen structured cabling grow decently. But this year is different,

considering the overall cautious approach taken by enterprises,
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saw Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) becoming the official standard

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FC-BB-5 and

working group approving it as a final standard. The idea of FCoE is

to facilitate convergence of LAN and SAN data convergence within
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datacenters by simplifying the network under a single interface. This

will have implications for structured cabling vendors. FCoE is also

likely to be a boon in terms of saving of real estate apart from

reduction in the number of servers and the quantity of cabling. This

will also have implications in terms of power savings.

TIA released the TIA-568-C.0/C.1

standard. This replaces the older (but commonly used) TIA-568-B.1

standard and its addenda. The new standard would be a generic

structured cable document emphasizing efficiency and effectiveness.

This will put all common cabling information within a single source,

thereby, allowing cable usage in different types of facilities and

premises within a multi-product/ multi-vendor environment. The new

standards document will also cover cabling requirements, structures,

topologies, distances, installations, performances, and testing.

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