* Systimax's '360-degree' approach to cabling product design
Systimax Solutions from CommScope this week said it is taking a “360-degree” approach to product design.
As an aside, isn’t it interesting how much the term “360” is being used these days in product and program naming? I’m thinking of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Symantec’s Norton 360 in the area of products, and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 and Yahoo 360 in the area of programming. And yes, we at Network World latched onto this trend with the Network World 360 podcast.
It’s trendy, I guess, but it also gets across the message of completeness.
In Systimax’s case, the “360” applies to a new “design philosophy” that “aims to redefine enterprise infrastructure performance through a holistic integration of form, function and usability that SYSTIMAX expects will help its customers solve many unmet or latent needs.”
The company isn’t being very specific right now, except to say that its structured cabling products will both be “aesthetically pleasing” and contain performance innovations for better efficiency and ease of use. Bandwidth, speed, product reliability and product usability will all be considerations. It will be interesting to see what becomes of this.
Systimax makes a range of cabling products, from the copper-based GigaSpeed X10D system for 10 Gigabit Ethernet over copper, to a range of fiber-optic systems for Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Systimax says its business partners install about 1,000 miles of its cable every day in about 120 countries around the world.
The first products to be developed using the new design philosophy will be announced later this month, the company says.
