TrueNet® Solutions for Education
Factsheet: Solutions for Education
Whether the network is for a school, college or university, bandwidth is becoming a very important issue – as video services are used more and more by education professionals to support their seminars and lectures
Increasingly, remote-teaching and distancelearning use streamed and on-demand videocasting which can place massive bandwidth demands on the network as lessons and lectures need to be delivered in near-broadcast quality video formats. Schools are spread-out, and universities occupy immense campuses – often spread over several sites around a city. This type of topology brings its own challenges where correct planning of backbone capacity and future flexibility are key to the success of the network in years to come.
This is where network planners need an infrastructure partner with the experience of ADC KRONE that has designed network solutions for hundreds of educational institutions around the globe. ADC KRONE can offer all of the available technologies and so our engineers will offer you totally impartial advice – to ensure that your specific solution is ideal for your project in terms of capital cost, operating cost, flexibility, futureproofing and planned upgrade paths.
Most colleges and universities, and indeed many schools, have grown over the years and now have a wide range of buildings from very old to ultra-modern. Frequently, there is a serious lack of ducting between buildings – but the cost of digging-in new ducting is prohibitive. With solutions like TrueNet blown fibre ADC KRONE engineers can help solve these problems now and provide a solution that gives all the upgrade/ flexibility the organisation’s network is likely to need over the next 15 to 20 years. We normally recommend a minimum of TrueNet Category 6 for educational networks, since its 250MHz bandwidth gives far better scope for video services TrueNet CopperTen is already highly popular in educational installations because it allows Ethernet at 10
Gigabit/s and video up to 500MHz. All TrueNet copper cabling solutions are available in both unshielded (UTP) and shielded (STP/FSTP) formats to ensure you have the best and most appropriate solution for your individual project. Solutions TrueNet blown fibre allows maximisation of limited ducting. Once the miniature ducts are installed within the existing ducting, additional bandwidth can be installed – without disruption – often in a matter of hours. Lower capacity fibre bundles can be removed and re used improving cost efficiency and eco-friendliness. TrueNet Category 5e and Category 6 offer zero bit-error warranties essential for full Gigabit data-rate operation at all times. TrueNet CopperTen increases the data-rate ten-fold to 10 Gigabit/s and is ideal for high video bandwidths and low latency for digital video and voice (VoIP). TrueNet Blown Fibre provides Gigabit and 10 Gigabit solutions with the option to blow in more capacity at any time, while TrueNet CWDM-ready fibre will enable 10 Gigabits/s now futureproofed to deliver up to 80 Gigabit/s per fibre pair in the future using Coarse Wave Division Multiplexing technology.
TrueNet Power-over-Ethernet technology enables VoIP phones, IP CCTV cameras, access security and other devices to be powered directly through the RJ-45 jack removing the need for a.c. power sockets and unreliable external power supply units. TrueNet PLM physical layer management enables the structured cabling system to be fully managed from the network operations centre (NOC) and can massively cut network downtime as well as improving network utilisation by up to 40%.
