IT Managers Making Sure they get a Good Night's Sleep
by Selecting Higher Quality Cabling

Companies who deploy higher performance cabling experience less network downtime - a key issue for IT managers - according to the latest research commissioned by SYSTIMAX Solutions. The key conclusion drawn from the survey is that a number of factors, including bandwidth-hungry applications, businesses' demand for increased network uptime and the need for efficient network management and monitoring, should be driving the selection of cabling infrastructures and the investment in higher performance systems, rather than initial cost.

The research report, entitled Speed and Agility, Performance and Reliability: A report on Global Enterprise Network Trends, covers technology trends for the physical layer of enterprise networks across 45 countries. The 1,484 IT professionals who took part in the research spanned organizations with between 50 and more than 10,000 network users, in sectors ranging from education to finance/banking and government to media/publishing.

More and more IT professionals are planning to install copper-based Category 6A cabling, while Category 5e cabling is heading for obsolescence. And, from a fiber perspective, throughout the past five years there has been rapid growth in acceptance of laser optimised multimode fiber as an alternative to traditional multimode and singlemode fiber.

Quality of product is the single most important factor companies consider when making a cabling infrastructure decision, with technical performance cited as another key factor. From the survey results, it is noticeable that those that are concerned with initial cost have lower performance networks and have more downtime and network connectivity problems.

From a network infrastructure perspective, IT managers need to know as much about what a cabling solution will do for them as about what it does. And technology for technology's sake has taken a deserved back seat to using technology to enable business success.

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Download or request a hard copy of the report SPEED and AGILITY. PERFORMANCE and RELIABILITY here. This report provides detailed information on the global installed base of LAN technology, revealing users' intentions and priorities for upgrading their networks and covers cabling types, network preferences, the impact of network downtime, the rate of moves, adds and changes and IT support requirements for managing, monitoring and auditing networks.