How Belden Helps Achieve Better Connectivity and Lower Latency

MEC Updates — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 08:33:10 +0000

Belden Addresses Today's Connectivity Challenges

Belden’s data center solutions stayed and cemented their status as vital for business and everyday life, even though many things were put on hold during the pandemic.

Belden’s data centers made it possible for businesses of all sizes to develop remote operations fast. They assisted K-12 institutions and colleges when these organizations abruptly moved to online education. They provided food businesses with novel methods for interacting with customers and taking orders. Even remote doctor-patient connections were supported. Individuals also gained a lot of entertainment options while they stayed at home.

While other commercial real estate sectors suffered during the pandemic, data centers continued to thrive. In fact, Gartner forecasts a 6% rise in worldwide data center infrastructure investment this year.

Data centers must be able to swiftly add capacity to support remote IT, e-commerce, increasing video streaming, gaming, and applications like telemedicine, distant learning, and online collaboration. Data centers have established their value as essential infrastructure, and low-latency connectivity is vital to making this happen. A positive user experience depends on low latency or quick reaction times.

Data centers have been evolving toward full-mesh, leaf-spine fabric design due to the need for data travelling through a data center to be communicated and processed more quickly. In virtualized server setups, where resources for a given application are located across numerous servers, this design minimizes latency. It also supports data-intensive and time-sensitive applications.

Achieving Low Latency with Belden's Cabling Solutions

To achieve low latency, connectivity is important. In a data center, fiber cabling permits the use of conventional cross-connects in distribution areas for flexible, standards-based connections between equipment, including connections from servers to storage devices and from spine switches to leaf switches and servers to servers.

Cross-connects, which derive their names from the cables and cords that directly connect two termination units, are the center of attention in this style of data center design. They can enhance traffic management, boost performance, lower latency, facilitate server growth in virtualized server settings, and enable server clustering. These are meant to achieve a more convenient sharing of computing and storage resources.

At the cross-connect, new services are made rapidly available online. Permanent fixed links can connect spine switches in the main distribution area to the cross-connect, and unused spine switch ports at the cross-connect can be utilized to connect new leaf switches.

This is ideal for a colocation setting, where client equipment must instantly connect to service provider equipment outside the meet-me room without having to access equipment. It adds an extra layer of protection and assurance without interfering with operations. Customers can benefit from neighboring services, partners, carriers, and ecosystems by using a cross-connect.

Cross-connect advantages are also present in equipment distribution areas found in the enterprise customer colocation facilities or on-site data centers. It is simple for new servers to connect to the End of Row (EoR) leaf switch at the cross-connect when new servers need to be added to a row. These cross-connects may be located anywhere in the data center because of the fiber-supported lengths.

As we work to achieve low-latency connectivity to support the demands that lie ahead, including remote IT, e-commerce, increased video streaming and gaming, and applications like telemedicine, distance learning, and online collaboration, Belden’s solutions have the potential to help data centers cost-effectively expand.

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MEC-Belden: A Partnership for a Better Connected Philippines

MEC Updates — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 06:57:46 +0000

MEC Expands Its Tech Portfolio through Its Partnership with Belden

MEC Networks Corporation now distributes structured cabling and industrial solutions from Belden!

Belden Philippines’ Country Manager, Mr. Bobby Macaraeg, and their Senior Solutions Account Manager, Mr. Francisco Alcantara, personally came to our headquarters for the official memorandum of agreement between MEC and Belden today, August 17, 2022.

Ms. Sheryl Go, MEC’s Senior Vice President for Sales welcomed our esteemed guests from the Belden team and enlightened the audience as to how this partnership came about.

“We have decided to expand our coverage, as we recently ventured into the electrical industry. Part of the expansion is also to cover the industrial market. Looking at the products of Belden, we see that Belden products will be a good fit in this new venture... With our superior distribution expertise, we believe we can contribute to the industrial and construction industry more with Belden.”

Ms. Sheryl Go Tweet

In line with this, Belden Philippines’ Country Manager, Mr. Bobby Macaraeg also shared that they now seek to have a strong distributor in the ICT market whereas in the past they had been focused on the retail market.

“This year, after the pandemic, Belden is focused on what we call enhanced solutions delivery both on the smart building and the industrial segment which we feel that MEC will be a vital part of… We needed to have a strong partner in the ICT market. And who better would that ICT distributor be other than MEC. We look forward to a very fruitful engagement between Belden and MEC."

Mr. Bobby Macaraeg Tweet

MEC Proudly Carries Belden’s End-to-end Solutions

Belden has been a leader in the design and manufacturing of insulated wire, cable, and related products for over 100 years, and so, Belden has gained a worldwide reputation for being an expert solutions provider.

It is their company’s ambition to build lasting relationships by delivering custom-fit benefits to all their stakeholders. And so, Belden places its efforts to designing, manufacturing, and selling a comprehensive portfolio of cable, connectivity, and networking products.

By advancing Belden’s end-to-end solutions in the country, we can proactively take part in enabling a better connected Philippines. And through this milestone agreement, we have once again proven our determination to empower people and industries through technology.