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Fourier System - Key Industries in Europe and Africa |
December 2008 This month:
We spoke to Ron Orlovsky, Director of Gilfilian Air-Conditioning Ltd., a Kenyan based company, who distribute Fourier products throughout the East African Market. Ron has identified control rooms as a key application for the DataNet in control rooms across a number of different industries including GSM suppliers, Internet server providers, Ports and Banks. The control room functions as the heart of many companies, since it supports, manages and controls the IT infrastructure key to the functioning of the building or organization. Environmental monitoring in servers, computer rooms and data centers is a critical part of proactive disaster prevention. Without safe and secured control rooms these organizations can be cut of from all access to their information databases and connection with the outside world through email or the Internet – conveying a damaging business message and reaping heavy costs.
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Rwandatel is the largest telecommunications provider in Rwanda, beginning operations in 1993 as the sole provider of fixed telephony. Rwandatel services include voice, data and internet and serve as the backbone internet provider in Rwanda with over 500 km of fiber and more than 300 points of presence in the country. Today Rwandatel is immersed in a nationwide rollout of new infrastructure that will support its new GSM and 3G UMTS network services. Also included is the revamping of the landline network and replacing the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) with an NGN (New Generation Network). Rwandatel is a pivotal company in the economic development of Rwanda with the control room at their headquarters managing essential and complex information. Situated on the first floor, the control room must be maintained at maximum temperature and humidity conditions. A staff of forty works in this room, monitoring the entire building. Half hourly reports are sent to a monitor constantly indicating the data from the DataNet system in graphic and table formats. Below the control room the location, equipment and battery rooms each house a DNL920 DataNet with external temperature sensors. Repeaters are situated throughout the rooms and stairwells. If parameters are crossed alarms are sent to the monitor, as well as via email and SMS in real time. The team at Rwandatel is very satisfied with the solution and plan to extend it later in the year.
The Port of Djibouti is situated in the Republic of Djibouti, E Africa, bordered by Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and the Gulf of Aden. Djibouti is the capital and most revenue is derived from the port of Djibouti and the country's free-trade zone status. Hides, cattle, and coffee (transshipped from Ethiopia) are the major exports. As such Djibouti enjoys a strategic location on the strait between the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. A new, high investment duty free port has recently been built in Djibouti and the DataNet system has been chosen to monitor and protect the large server room supporting the entire complex. The room houses a special air conditioning unit for temperature and humidity and a number of DNL920 DataNet units monitor the temperature and humidity conditions inside this critical room. Two repeaters send the data to the PC in the neighboring room where hourly reports are processed.
Barclays Bank, Kenya has operated for almost 90 years bringing secured banking and broad local and international resources and financial services. The main sectors of the Kenyan economy are agriculture, manufacturing, tourism and financial services. Barclays has established an extensive network of over 114 outlets with 225 ATMs spread across the country. The bank's financial performance over the years has built confidence among the 48,000 shareholders, with a reputation as one of the leading blue chip companies on the Nairobi Stock Exchange. Situated at the Barclays Kenya headquarters' is a DataNet system monitoring the main data center server room. This large buildings main data center is protected by the DataNet and two external sensors for temperature.
The DataNet multi-unit system now offers an even richer range of product features. These carry new benefits making the network even more applicable for a wide range of industries including:
In this Product Roundup Fourier announces: