Case Study: Molex's intelligent infrastructure management solution -

Nestled on the banks of the Huangpu River, this waterside expo center is one of Shanghai's key exhibition expo pavilions. The 184-day Expo focuses on the theme Better City, Better Life, and through various sub-themes, creates blueprints for future cities and harmonious urban lifestyles. The Expo aims to achieve the greatest level of participation in the history of world expos, and estimates over 200 nations taking part, with a staggering 70 million visitors.

The Expo Center or park is made up of multiple halls and a dedicated cutting-edge news and international broadcasting center–housing radio, television, Internet, and program production studios - enabling tens of thousands of journalist from around the world to broadcast live.

Challenge

Boasting state-of-the-art facilities and a heavy reliance on communication performance, data integrity, and security, the Expo organizers were keen to implement a dynamic network suitable to the running of such a large and important facility. The structured cabling system was designed to be the nerve center of the whole park, and therefore was to have the most robust and advanced infrastructure in place.

Solution

To accommodate the demanding requirements, the design of the Expo Center's structured cabling is organized into a 3-tier network architecture, supporting the center, convergence rooms, and IDF (access layer). Data from the Center utilizes three networks - internal and public, plus equipment and security and telephony, each operating independently, with common cabinets and trunk routes.

Each of the internal, public, and service networks link functional areas, over single mode fiber optic cables which are provisioned to support future 40G - 100G performance. In total, the fiber installed equates to over 82 kilometers. The telephony network comprises 25 pair UTP low-smoke zero halogen copper cable in the vertical backbone between the IDF layer and the main Expo Center, and category 6 UTP copper cable within the horizontal layer.

To manage this comprehensive and layered network, in a secure real time and transparent fashion, the Expo team relies on Molex's advanced physical layer management solution, MIIM. The MIIM solution was implemented to offer intelligent monitoring of the cabling system within the information center, fire control center, and convergence rooms. With the support of MIIM, hundreds of critical channels on the backbone of internal, public, equipment and security networks are monitored continuously to ensure the successful operation of the 2010 Exposition Shanghai. Molex's solutions were chosen to support the Expo Center and its image as one of China's most significant network infrastructure investments. As the most important building in the 2010 Exposition, the Center achieved eight key performance indicators–standardization, advanced technologies, practicality, flexibility, compatibility, security, reliability, and cost efficiencies.

Timothy Lam, Regional Sales Director for Greater China, said that "working with Yanhua Intelligence Technology and World Expo gives me great pride. To use our latest and most innovative advanced technology on this prominent project is an enormous honor for Molex. The Shanghai Expo 2010 will be the focus of the world's attention for nearly six months of the year. Our advanced solutions and leading structured cabling system future-proofs the center for years to come, and compliments China's vision of sustainability in human development in urban areas".

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