Panduit

Panduit Corporation is a global manufacturer of engineered electronic components and network solutions. It was established in 1955.fact|date=September 2008 Currently it has sales over $500 million, 3,500 employees, and more than two million square feet of facilities.fact|date=September 2008

Panduit's world headquarters in Tinley Park, Illinois.

References

External links

* [http://www.panduit.com/ Panduit corporate website] .
* [http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/netacad/course_catalog/Cable.html Cisco course on The Panduit Network Infrastructure Essentials ] .

PANDUIT Unveils Vision to Revolutionize Physical Infrastructure Design, Deployment, and Management

TINLEY PARK, Ill. (August 22, 2008) – PANDUIT introduces a new approach that will revolutionize design, deployment and management of the physical infrastructure. PANDUIT debuted the Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) vision at the live eBroadcast event on July 17, 2008. The event, titled Unified Physical Infrastructure: The Need to Better Understand Your Infrastructure (http://ebroadcast.frost.com/infrastructure), was hosted by leading industry analyst Frost & Sullivan and included a panel of industry experts from PANDUIT, Cisco, Calence who is a Cisco systems integrator, and iConnect who is a Panduit Certified Installer.

More than 500 business leaders from companies across the globe participated in this live event to learn about the evolution of the physical infrastructure across power, control, computing, communications and security systems. “Business agility through real-time information, globalization of the supply chain, rising costs and complexity, heightened compliance and security requirements, green/sustainability and improved customer experience are key business drivers for the unification of the physical infrastructure,” according to Vineeth Ram, VP Global Marketing at PANDUIT.

The participants learned how leveraging the UPI vision can help to build a smart, solid business foundation with enhanced system reliability, lower operating costs and reduced infrastructure risk. Key stakeholders from the North Carolina Research Campus project in Kannapolis, N.C., including NCRCnet, Cisco, Calence and iConnect, shared the business drivers, benefits, and challenges of deploying a UPI-based solution.

“The UPI vision is based on building a solid and converged foundation that delivers flexibility and growth opportunities throughout the infrastructure – in both networking and industrial environments,” says Todd Hawthorne, Business Development Manager, Cisco. “We appreciate the emphasis the vision places on completing comprehensive planning and provisioning at the front end of projects, to ensure all identified issues, needs and requirements are taken into consideration. Doing so greatly increases effectiveness and performance of the physical infrastructure every time.”

The physical infrastructure is the foundation on which all enterprise systems run, including voice and data communications, power, computing, control and security systems. UPI-based solutions help organizations mitigate risk within the physical infrastructure by eliminating the complexities associated with system convergence, integration and interdependency.

“UPI-based solutions allow customers across different industries to migrate towards the UPI vision to meet their individual integration and convergence needs,” said Dilip Sarangan, Frost & Sullivan Senior Industry Analyst. “Solutions built on UPI principles have the potential to capture significant market share, achieving greater adoption rate across all industries and applications while improving security, flexibility, and business agility for customers.”

“The vision is about building a unifying infrastructure using IP to support all the different industries and their applications. It involves implementing best practices and deploying one infrastructure that could support multiple applications,” adds Matt Rees, Vice President, Calence.

“The UPI vision will enable us to move forward and add true value to our enterprise clients and our developers’ bottom line, because that’s what it’s really all about,” concludes Shohn Petty, Founder and Managing Principle, iConnect Technologies.

In support of the UPI vision, PANDUIT and Frost & Sullivan co-developed a white paper, titled An Introduction to the Unified Physical Infrastructure Vision, that details theory and applications of this innovative approach. The white paper can be downloaded after viewing a recording of the eBroadcast event at

[http://ebroadcast.frost.com/infrastructure.] [http://ebroadcast.frost.com/infrastructure.]

--nSc ( Navinder ) 04:46, 22 September 2008 (UTC)