Optimizing the data center begins with cables: South Australian Health story

By Allan Tan | Jul 2, 2009

Data center optimization is fast becoming a major project for many enterprises and public sector organizations feeling the pinch of shrinking budgets and rising calls for improved service. But where do you start? This Commscope case study looks at the approach the South Australian Health took to modernize its data center as it took its first few steps towards data center optimization/modernization, and the importance structured cabling played in achieving its goals.

South Australian (SA) Health has over 30,000 employees providing healthcare to a population of 1.6 million people. To help run its ICT services efficiently, the organization has a network of 380 sites servicing over 18,000 PC’s. At the heart of the SA Health network is a data center located in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. This single floor, 868m2 building, built in the 1980’s, also provides datacenter facilities to other departments of South Australia’s government

SA Health chose solutions from CommScope’s SYSTIMAX range. Both 10G fiber and copper solutions are used in combination with state-of-the-art SYSTIMAX VisiPatch 360 patching hardware. The overall result is a high performance infrastructure that is easy to manage and beautifully organized. It delivers best-in- class 10G and 1G performance, and its ergonomic ‘reverse’ patch cord connectors eliminate the mass of hanging cords that obscures the connectors in traditional panels

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