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News Release from: BASF IT Services | Subject: Optical fibre network cable
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 February 2007
High speed data with optical cabling
from BASF
BASF IT services offers the technology for illuminating "dark" fibre optic cables, making it possible to use them for data transmission
BASF IT Services now offers its customers optical fibre network cable, making it easy to transport enormous amounts of data at high speeds over distances of several kilometers The IT service provider put an initial high-speed data line into operation for Wintershall, running between Kassel and Ludwigshafen
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 29 Aug 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new line connects the Wintershall headquarters in Kassel with the BASF IT Services data centre, where data from the petrochemicals and natural gas producer are managed.
Here BASF IT Services uses the fibre optics network of the Wintershall natural gas sales subsidiary WINGAS, which in addition to its activities in the gas sector is also active in marketing "dark fibre".
The new data connection handles data volumes of up to one gigabit per second.
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Data transmission is thus almost thirty times faster than with conventional copper cable, which offers transmission speeds of only 34 megabits per second.
Optical cable is a medium which transmits information in the form of light impulses.
When expanding its own gas pipeline several years ago, WINGAS installed optical cable along with its conventional line network.
BASF IT Services now offers the appropriate technology for illuminating these "dark" fibre optic cables, making it possible to use them for data transmission.
Data transmission using fibre optics is characterized by high bandwidths and high availability for network connections.
In particular, optical cable offers many additional advantages when a company wants to connect larger locations or computer centres directly with one another and without the use of public networks: It is immune to electromagnetic interference and is for the most part impervious to eavesdropping.
Special encryption technologies further ensure the necessary data security levels.
BASF IT Services intends to continue and expand its concept.
The full-service IT service provider is using its expertise to provide the complete data line package from a single source, ranging from maintenance and monitoring all the way to operation at guaranteed bandwidths.
"The major customer sector in particular requires custom-tailored solutions".
"For us, service provision from a single source also means that a service level agreement is made for each customer exactly matching the customer's individual needs," says BASF IT Services Managing Director Wolfgang Erny.
"We not only profit from this cooperation in terms of simple and high-speed data transmission, but also because of synergy effects such as the harmonisation of SAP systems," adds Mario Mehren, director of Finance and Information Management at Wintershall.
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