The Cost of Downtime?

Whether your network provides a backbone for vital information exchange within the corporation or is an essential and integral part of the services offered to customers a downtime in your network costs money.

Downtimes, be they individual data channels or complete systems, result in hardware not being utilised, lines being unused and people being idle. Additionally, cutting off network services can at the least be embarrassing and at the worst damage relations or even loose customers.

This is not to mention the most dangerous cost of downtime which is that associated with actual loss of data. When you consider how much data can be transmitted in a fraction of a second you realise just how dangerous a few minutes of downtime can be.

Can you afford not to be insured against downtime?

The insurance coverage must be comprehensive!

The problem of eliminating or minimising downtime is heightened due to the unavoidable multi-vendor nature of the network. Without exception all networks are multi-vendor with components sourced from a multitude of suppliers over long periods of times spanning technology shifts ranging from Telex to ATM. Most networks still contain large elements of legacy networking components mixed in with modern inter-networking devices.

Downtimes in this multi-vendor network can be drastically reduced, if not eliminated completely, by installing effective vendor independent tools in the network control environment.

Insurance From Whom?

Cornet Technology UK's vendor independent technical control solutions include a comprehensive range of products to ensure that the data network maintains maximum up time. These product areas are outlined briefly as follows:

Manual Patching - The traditional manual patching facility is still in demand to provide local access to data channels for test, monitor and reconfiguration and is available for those areas where manual front panel control is necessary.

PC Controlled Patching - The PC controlled Patching Panel provides the same facilities as a traditional patching panel but with complete control from a PC which can be installed at the help point rather than in the equipment room. It can even provide the patching facilities at remote unmanned sites. The PC Controlled Patch has extensive network alarm alerting features along with the capability to have remote test and monitor access.

Matrix Switching- The modern Matrix Switch is now seen as the ultimate replacement for traditional Patching and Switching and in many networks has become an overall enterprise management system. In addition to the obvious electronic any-to-any connection capability, the Matrix Switch is an interface converter, a cable concentrator, a modem eliminator, a broadcast mechanism and a facility for unlimited test and monitor access. It is the glue which is used to connect the multiplicity of network components together in a data centre rationalisation and modernisation program.

The Cost of the Insurance?

Although the cost per channel for Matrix Switching and PC Controlled Patching is noticeably higher than Manual Patching it is but a fraction of the cost of the data communications channel in which it is installed to protect. In fact the cost can be as little as one percent of the cost of a single data communications channel.

Overview details of the range of Cornet Technology UK's technical control products are provided in this site and more detailed information can be obtained by contacting Cornet Technology UK direct or by leaving a message on the response form.