The Smart Techie was renamed Siliconindia India Edition starting Feb 2012 to continue the nearly two decade track record of excellence of our US edition.
December - 2012 - issue > View Point
The Market Dynamics of Structured Cabling Market Globally
Natarajan Viswanathan
Managing Director - India & SAARC-CommScope Enterprise Solutions
Today structured cabling is evolving faster than ever before with the mix of network technologies being the most volatile while the overall growth seems to be very strong as well. The adoption of new technologies such as virtualization and all the subsequent advantages it offers are driving change. The network infrastructure, structured cabling is being driven ahead to support these business goals. CommScope customers include the early adopters of these business systems and therefore we have been working for several years to bring new cabling systems to market to meet our customer’s needs.
In India, the SCS market is cluttered with a variety of players offering a variety of solutions. CommScope manufactures 100 percent of all it offers and thus has a control on product quality and performance. Our 20 year warranty is unique in terms of offering a ‘total channel warranty’ as compared to the components warranty other players offer.
Market Trends and Future of SCS market in India:
The recent trends have been that the customers have started looking into and deploying the future cabling infrastructure for their requirements. As more and more customers started building their Data Centers either as captive or as hosted, they have started deploying the infrastructure like 10G over Copper and OM4 fibers. Intelligence is going to be a growth area. Companies working in dynamic times have to keep making changes to their layouts. They need intelligence to achieve this with the shortest possible downtime and also document the process. Intelligence is very important. It is also essential to address security and asset management issues.
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