EC News DeskAt a premier event, held this week in Dubai, R&M unveiled its new Cat. 8.1, Netscale 72 and inteliPhy net network cabling solutions in the Middle East. The launch was attended by Peter Harradine, President of the Swiss Business Council, Dubai and Northern Emirates as well as several prestigious R&M customers from the region, including the Deputy General Manager and top executives from Istanbul Grand Airport, IGA.
Michel Riva, CEO, R&M group and Nabil Khalil, Executive Vice President, R&M Middle East, Turkey and Africa delivered the evening’s keynotes. These were followed by a detailed presentation of the Netscale 72 and inteliPhy net solutions, provided by Reinhard Burkert, Product Manager Smart Networks, R&M under the theme Driving Digitalisation with Smart Networks. Netscale 72 offers the highest density of FO ports and can be used to create large spine-leaf network architectures in cloud data centres and facilitate fast migration to new network generations, such as the step from 10 Gigabit to 40 or 100 Gigabit capacity. inteliPhy net is R&M’s easy-to-operate DCIM solution for asset, capacity and change management in data centres. The solution attaches importance to a simplified representation and convinces by its intuitive, web-based operation.
“To date, R&M’s fibre optic solutions have represented a perfect balance between high performance, flexible configuration and state-of-the-art port density. With Netscale 72 we have shifted the balance further towards intelligence, monitoring and automation,” said Dr Thomas Wellinger, Market Manager Data Center, R&M.
Alfred Tharwat, Head of Training and Data Center Consultancy, R&M MEA and Turkey then introduced attendees to the company’s new Cat. 8.1 cabling system with his presentation titled Next Generation Components for LAN and Data Centre. R&M new cabling solution is designed for data centres and office LANs and supports up to 40 Gigabit/s Ethernet, the fastest data transmission rate that local networks with structured copper cabling can achieve today. In line with the specifications of the ISO/IEC and TIA standards, the company guarantees 40GbE performance for 24-meter permanent links and the up to 30-meter channel depending on the patch cords used.
In addition to the product launches, Emrah Bayarçelik, Deputy General Manager, IGA, delivered a compelling testimonial detailing how the largest airport in the world is now also the first globally to be fully digitised with its key security, communication and IT functions based on a network provided by R&M. The Swiss company’s cabling connects the airport’s ICT systems for customs, security staff and the police force, as well as 9,000 surveillance cameras, 3,000 card readers and 5,000 Wi-Fi access points, giving the airport a full-coverage WLAN.
Commenting on the launches, Michel Riva, CEO at R&M said, “We are proud to bring to the Middle East these innovative solutions that represent the pinnacle of technology in their respective cabling domains. 2020 will be a landmark year for the whole region with Dubai hosting the Expo 2020, opening new horizons for the sustainable future of our planet. The Middle East is also one of the most important sales regions for R&M and a focus for our activities in the coming year. We are proud to be among the top three providers of connectivity, exciting our customers in the government, telecom provider and enterprises sectors with next-generation networks.”
