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DATA CENTER
Bandwidth for Data Centres
Facility |
Purpose |
Data Rates
(/s) |
Tomorrow
Data
Rates |
Business |
CER |
C-C, Switches, Routers |
LAN
10/100Mb |
LAN
0.1-1Gb |
All |
Small
DC |
Servers, CPU, UPC |
1Gb |
1Gb |
Smaller
Financial,
Hospitals |
Medium
DC |
Servers, CPU, UPC, Local SANs |
1 - 10Gb |
10Gb |
Banks, Pharma, Univ |
Large
DC |
Servers, CPU, UPC, Local/Remote SANs, Centrtalised ITĄ |
10Gb |
10-100Gb |
Large financials, Retail banking, Insurances |
DC Solutions ¨C Project phases
When planning a new Data Centre, major topics for the owner/user are
Power, Cooling , Grounding , Design , Future-proofed systems and Space
When building a Data Centre, important parameters are
Speed of Deployment and Partner selections
When running a Data Centre, critical are
Availability, Outsourcing/services, Monitoring and Changes/upgradability

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