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Global optical networking market growing
Recent market research indicates that the optical networking market is growing, projected to reach US$20 billion globally by 2015.
[ + ]Switching developer benefits from test automation product
Blade Network Technologies, a data centre ethernet switching company, has implemented Fanfare’s test automation product, iTest, to meet its increasing product development and time-to-market goals. Blade has saved approximately $500,000 in resource and equipment costs, sanity build times and time to market since implementing iTest.
[ + ]Low knowledge of energy-saving schemes in Australia
A recent survey of 2700 Australian households has identified that consumers need help from the electrical industry to better understand the benefits of energy efficiency.
[ + ]Project: Improving student comfort and reducing energy consumption in specialist school
The Italian Bilingual School (IBS), located in Sydney’s inner western suburb of Leichhardt, upgraded its teaching facilities earlier this year, with its top priorities being to improve the learning environment and comfort of students, as well as reducing energy consumption. Robert Ruggeri, principal of the school, turned to HPM Legrand, and added BTicino sound diffusion and lighting automation systems to effect these objectives.
[ + ]Project: Environmentally friendly electrical installation
The ANZ Bank’s new head office in Melbourne’s Docklands precinct is Australia’s largest single-tenant office building, providing 87,000 m2 of floor space that accommodates some 6500 staff.
[ + ]Master Electricians call for national solar tariff regime
Electrical industry association Master Electricians Australia is calling for state and federal governments to create a uniform solar feed-in tariff scheme around the country.
[ + ]Electrical equipment for hazardous areas - environmental considerations
In production and work places, potentially explosive atmospheres can develop wherever flammable gases, vapours or dusts are mixed with the oxygen contained in the air.
[ + ]Industry support for PM Task Group report on energy efficiency
Industry giant Siemens has publicly stated its support for the Prime Minister’s Task Group on Energy Efficiency report.
[ + ]Skills development needed for regional Australia to benefit from energy sector boom
At a recent conference, an electrical and energy industry association has called for training and skills shortages to be properly addressed.
[ + ]Cloud computing testing for Taiwanese operator’s R&D Lab
Chunghwa Telecom Telecommunication Laboratories (CHTTL), the research and development arm of Chungwa Telecom, has selected Spirent to validate the performance, availability, security and scalability (PASS) of cloud computing environments. CHTTL will use Spirent’s expertise in cloud computing testing to enable Chunghwa Telecom to become Taiwan’s largest cloud computing and data centre provider.
[ + ]Making safety just as important as the bottom line
Safety is a key focus for the industrial compressed-air solution manufacturer Champion Compressors, a subsidiary of the global Sullair Corporation. Its management considers keeping its workplace safe just as important as meeting its financial objectives.
[ + ]Product warranties - do they really protect?
The value of warranties can be well described by a famous speech by US Senator George Graham Vest in an address to a jury about the fidelity of dogs: “He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince ... if fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against enemies.”
[ + ]Next-generation data centres
While emerging technologies like 40 and 100 gigabit ethernet, fibre channel over ethernet, IP convergence and server virtualisation offer benefits for data centres, understanding how they work, the implications for the data centre and the strategies and solutions that will best support them can enable data centre managers to ensure that their infrastructures are ready and able. Compounding the onset of these technologies is the need to lower total cost of ownership.
[ + ]Will PVC in electrical products ever be considered ‘non-compliant’?
According to Wikipedia, polyvinyl chloride - commonly abbreviated as PVC - is the third-most widely produced plastic in the world, after polyethylene and polypropylene. It is widely used in construction because it’s cheap, durable and easy to assemble. The annual global production of PVC is expected to exceed 40 million tonnes by 2016. In spite of its ubiquity, there is mounting pressure to ban it.
[ + ]Protecting against electrical surges - 20 things you should know
All electrical installations are subject to a frequently distorted electricity supply. Uncontrollable anomalies such as lightning strikes and electromagnetic interference can and do distort the AC supply into buildings. Some can be catastrophic, destroying equipment from a single surge, while others can be too small to notice on their own, but have a cumulatively detrimental effect on equipment that inexplicably fails over time. But there are simple ways to deal with these challenges.
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