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Syncroness Deploys ADC's Revolutionary CopperTen Cabling System

ADC announced that Syncroness Inc has successfully deployed the CopperTen cabling system. CopperTen is the world's first augmented Category 6 structured cabling system with the necessary characteristics to enable 10-Gigabit per second Ethernet transmission over a full 100 meters. The Denver-based engineering firm will use CopperTen to facilitate the company's intensive data requirements, including the use of high-powered 3D CAD software and collaboration with global offices and clients.

Typical Category 6 cabling systems are hindered by the technical combination of insertion loss and alien crosstalk that greatly disrupts transmission and high-speed data communications. The CopperTen system, invented by the KRONE development team, incorporates patent-pending design and manufacturing processes that enable the products to overcome these challenges using unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable, the most prolific type of enterprise network cabling in the world.

"As a product development firm, our business demands very large data transfers and we see even greater requirements in the very near future," said Mike Walraven, chief technology officer for Syncroness. "Along with our CAD and Product Data Management applications, we are deploying a collaboration suite of tools that will allow us to communicate more effectively with our offices in California and Malaysia. Additionally, our engineering analysis teams use distributed computing over the network to run high level thermal, structural and fluid dynamics problems. Having an infrastructure that is certified to 10 Gigabit is vital to our ability to conduct our business going forward. ADC's ability to deliver this along with its historic reputation for quality made the decision for CopperTen simple."

"Many organizations operating highly sophisticated networks are interested in future-proofing their infrastructure for the next level of transmission performance. However, since the current price of active hardware to run Gigabit over fiber is six times more expensive than copper, cost is obviously a concern," said Ron Lowy, president of global connectivity solutions for ADC. "The CopperTen UTP cabling system provides a more economical alternative to deploying fiber in the LAN, supporting 10-Gigabit per second Ethernet transmission speeds for future, higher bandwidth applications."

ADC's leading network infrastructure solutions are the foundation for high-speed, highly reliable networks throughout the world, and have already been deployed in sophisticated environments such as carrier-class data centers operated by service providers and enterprise organizations; data-intensive financial services and banking networks; highly-secure, bandwidth intensive government networks; real-time news and broadcasting networks; and mission-critical industrial security, process control and communications networks.