We have adapted Green component technology

What is your key offering in the structured cabling, tools, and accessories?

We provide copper as well as multimode fiber cables, patch assemblies, panels, adapters and connectors. In addition, Digilink has a range of residential cabling solutions that include data connectors suitable for elite electrical brand offerings and customized IMT faceplates. For datacenter solution needs, we offer trunk cable assemblies, MPO connectors, high density aluminum die cast patch panels and fiber management solutions.

Keeping the environment in mind, what are the key advantages of your products and solutions portfolio?

We are among the first to start Green Initiative in the SCS industry in India to provide superior quality products that are RoHS compliant, which can improve our customers network lifecycle. It will help customers get better RoI through device preservation and network efficiency. It will also help us as an OEM manufacturer to recycle the technology products by re-manufacturing. We also manufacture non-halogen cable patch cords at our facilities. We are very careful in the use of recycled products for packaging. The manufacturing set up is complaint for the last several years.

What are your new products that facilitate data center solutions? Please elaborate. How do they contribute to the environment?

We have various new products that are aimed at data center solutions. These include:

MPO Cassette: It is a very small form factor conversion product which takes conventional fiber connectors (usually 12F but also available for 6F and 24F) and consolidates them into very small form factor MPO connector. These are factory-assembled cassette that can be mounted in a sliding 19-inch 1U height rack.

MPO Trunk Cables: Instead of handling 12 individual patch cords, we have one cable terminating on both ends with MPO connectors. They are available in both multimode as well as single mode fibers. They are factory polished and are available in standard 20m, 30m, 40m and 50m lengths in both straight and cross configurations.

Fan-out Cables: It is an another convenient space and time saving fiber solution. It has one end terminating in 6F or 12F LC or SC connectors and on the other end there is single MPO connector. They are factory polished, and available in all fiber types, usually 50m, 100m lengths.

Floor Mountable Fiber Termination Unit: This indoor type fiber termination unit can avoid bulkier fiber cables reaching data center racks and instead can terminate them under the floor from where fan-out cables would run till MPO cassette mounted on racks.

We have adapted Green component technology. Our optical fiber cabling is green, all our products are designed environmentally safe and are made from safe raw materials. Our environmentally sound products are made from reusable and recyclable raw material. Our product uses efficiency technology, which reduces power consumption and increases density.

Do you see that energy efficiency has become a value addition in the IT products manufacturing industry, today?

As a society, we are being inundated with statistics and information on global warming, CO2 emissions and environmental messages. The IT industry is engaged and taking action to reduce its impact on the environment. Benefits
of green infrastructure include environmental (improved air and water quality, solid waste reduction, ecosystem protection), economic (operating cost reductions, asset value enhancements) and community health impacts. Green revolution is accepted by IT products manufacturer in many ways, including zero carbon emission, saving power, using reusable and recyclable raw material and RoHS complaint raw material.

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Parameswaran Joins Appnomic as President

Appnomic Systems has announced that Subramanian Parameswaran has joined them as the president for India operations. He will be based in Mumbai and focus on positioning Appnomics automated infrastructure management solutions to large and growing enterprises. Parameswaran has more than 22 years of sales and management experience in the Indian industry. Prior to taking up this position with Appnomic, Subbu was the president and CEO of Sanovi Technologies. During his tenure at Sanovi, Parameswaran had successfully led and managed the growth from a start-up phase to having more than 50 customers in a short span of time. Subbu had also served as the managing director of Hitachi Data Systems till 2007, a position he grew into after literally starting the operations for HDS in India in 2001.

Obama Strikes Out at Outsourcing Stereotypes

Both India and the US were operating on stereotypes that have outlived their usefulness, US President Barack Obama said on his official tour to India this month in response to a question on outsourcing and what India would get from the deals struck in Mumbai. He said that a part of the reason why he was promoting the fact that the deals were going to create 50,000 jobs, was to tell citizens in the US that it was not a one-way street.

Paul Rademacher Leaves Google

Paul Rademacher is another one to leave Google after his 5-year stint at the search giant. Rademacher worked at different engineering ranks at Google during his tenure. Most recently, he was the engineering manager for Google Maps front-end. The credits of creating the Google Earth Browser Plugin also goes to Rademacher. Google is fast losing its talent which can affect its various projects.

ACS Makes Parakala Honorary Life Member

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Yan-David Erlich Leaves LinkedIn

ChoiceVendor founder and CEO, Yan-David Erlich announced to part ways with LinkedIn barely 2 months after LinkedIn acquired ChoiceVendor. Erlich had sold ChoiceVendor to LinkedIn for an undisclosed amount. Sources reveal that Erlich is leaving the company for personal reasons. ChoiceVendor gave real-time ratings and reviews to B2B service providers before it was merged into LinkedIn on September 23. In the meantime, LinkedIn has hired ChoiceVendors co-founder, Rama Ranganath.

A Raja Steps Down Over 2G Spectrum Row

Andimuthu Raja has finally resigned as the telecom minister over the 2G spectrum row. Unrelenting pressure from the Congress forced DMK boss M Karunanidhi to get a reluctant Raja to finally resign. Nevertheless, he asserted that his resignation should not be interpreted as an ackowledgement of guilt. He defended his performance as a minister.

The pressure was building up on the government for Rajas resignation for quite some time. His relations with corporate lobbyist Nira Radia had sent the parliament uproarious earlier this year. Due to DMKs backing, he continued to be in the ministry. But it became extremely difficult for Raja to remain in power after Jayalalitha threw an open offer to Congress of its partys unconditional support.

Raja was accused of selling 2G spectrum at dirt cheap rates in 2008, which presumably resulted in a loss of up to `1.70 lakh crore to the national exchequer. In its final report on the alleged scam in 2G spectrum allocation, CAG had said that the minister for IT and communications overruled advice from the PMs office and Ministries of Law and Finance, and the recommendations of the Telecom Commission to allocate 2G spectrum. Added to Rajas woes further was the bafflement expressed by the Supreme Court over his continuing in the government.

Experts perceive the 2G spectrum case as the largest political corruption case in modern Indian history which resulted into huge financial losses to the Indian government. HRD minister Kapil Sibal was given the additional charge of the telecom ministry.

Ajay K Dhir Joins NIIT

Ajay K Dhir has taken over as the head of South east Asia business for NIIT Technologies. He was earlier working as the group CIO of JSL. Ajay is one of the few CIOs to have moved to the industry, having earlier worked in the IS departments of GHCL and Hero Motros.

Vijay Hinge Quits Avenue Supermart as CIO

Vinay Hinge has quit as the CIO of Avenues Supermart. He is co-promoting a firm that will provide CIOs services to fast growing small and medium enterprises.

Essar Group Gets Vikas Prabhu as CIO

Vikas Prabhu has taken over as CIO - Corporate Functions at the Essar Group. In this function, he is working closely with group CIO CN Ram to streamline the groups IT strategy. He was earlier the CIO of group company, Essar Telecom Retail (The Mobile Store).

Samsung Galaxy Tab Lands in India!

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Beetel Wins Outstanding Growth Award

Beetel Teletech has won the Outstanding Growth Award from RAD Data Communications at its annual partners meeting held in Eilat, Israel. The company says that the award to Beetel has come after only 1 year of activity as a RAD Partner and is a tribute to their ability to successfully promote RAD.

Wikipedia to Open Office in India

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has decided to set up an office in India within 6 months. The office will support the existing Bengaluru based India chapter of the free online resource. According to Wikipedia co-founder, Jimmy Wales, this is going to be a small office with 3 or 4 people and would not be a huge investment. The Foundation is poised to enhance its databases with rich content in top 10 Indian languages by 2015. Until now Hindi has generated 57,823 articles, Telugu 45,963, Marathi 31,400, Tamil 25,263, Gujarati 17,142 and Malayalam 14,830. WMF is also willing to provide logistics, technical, and financial support for initiatives to create communities of contributors for the language sites.

A New Search Engine Boasts of Useful Results

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Quick Heal Awarded Best Innovation SME Award

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Nokia Launches Ovi Life Tools in Nigeria

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Aircel Launches First 3G Experience Zone

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