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Global Data Centre Cabling - Special Study

Source: istockphoto.comThe new 2011 BSRIA data centre cabling study shows 105 pages of results from a new end-user survey covering 335 respondents in six countries and across six verticals. The six countries in this report are India, China, the USA, UK, Germany and France. In terms of copper and fibre structured cabling in data centres, these six countries made up close to 70% of the DC worldwide structured cabling value in 2010.

After data centre network standards were introduced in 2010, and equipment became available for 10G and 40G, the study was set up primarily to look at the uptake of high speeds and to see over which media these are being run or planned to be run by end 2013. This includes the usage and plans for non-structured cabling point-to-point links, what would cause respondents to increase their use of point-to-point links, and whether they have encountered any problems with them.

Other specifics include the use and plans for pre-terminated cabling and FCoE; equipment replacement rates; expansion plans; the impact from blade servers and virtualisation; outsourcing; and the decision-making process.

Overall, in the data centres surveyed in 2011, across the six countries the copper to fibre ratio is 42 to 58 and the usage of MPOs and preterminated cabling is increasing, while there is some ambivalence towards the decision between using structured cabling or point-to-point links for future 10G copper links.

With the huge demand for back-up data, video storage, peer-to-peer file sharing, cloud computing and other similar applications, there is huge growth in the building and renovation of colocation and enterprise data centres.

This end-user report is accompanied by an addendum on more detail of each country's data centre cabling market.

Price for the report is £7,500. 

BSRIA'S UK Data Centre market study is available from November 2011