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Storage Area Management (SAM)
Optical Cable Management, Simplified!
Your data center is managing more information than ever. This is the driving
force behind the need for more ecient and eective storage solutions.
The increasing complexity of managing a large quantity of devices and data
is escalating the cost of software and services, and is drawing most of the
IT community’s attention. The physical layer drives much of the complexity
associated with installing SAN systems, and many of the impediments
associated with these implementations.
There are a number of challenges with SAN cabling at the physical layer.
High-density port groupings, the sheer volume of patch cords, moves, adds,
and changes, and the ports themselves—installing and tracking the actual
devices and cables connecting them, can all prove to be dicult. Plus,
space is at a premium in most data centers; many have narrow cabinets or
four post racks with inadequate cable management space.
TE’s Storage Area Management (SAM) Solution for network infrastructures
is designed to reduce the bulkiness of cabling and connectors in the data
center by up to 80% and enable high-density deployment with fewer costly
cabinet or infrastructure upgrades. SAM can help you save time, reduce
costs, maximize eciency, and open up much needed space in your data
center. It takes the complexity out of cable management, and optimizes the
performance of your data center floor space, racks and electronics.
De-clutter your racks for a highly organized, eco-friendly network infrastructure. SAM delivers operational eciency to
Storage Area Network (SAN) cabling and can help customers:
• Reduce SAN switch cabling volume by up to 80%
• Implement high-density deployment with
fewer cabinet or infrastructure upgrades
• Reduce space requirements by managing
up to 768 fiber ports within 2 rack units
• Minimize footprint—no additional front vertical,
side, or horizontal cable management devices
• Deploy in narrow cabinets or racks
and limited space environments
• Minimize cable mass and slack management
using linecard-optimized hydra assemblies
• Easily access ports
• Maintain unobstructed linecard maintenance
• Achieve simplified scalability
• Organize with pre-labeled ports
• Speed up deployment and reduce connection
errors with color-coded and keyed connections
• Simplify installation, upgrades and
migration with dedicated linecard kits
• Improve operational response time
• Remove and redeploy linecards in several quick "clicks"
• Leverage the high density UCP cable management
system with MPOptimate Quick-Fit cassettes
• Can be combined with other MPOptimate products
in the channel within budget limits of the application