Highband Presentation August 8,2002

Agenda - Highband Highband Principle Performance Results Why Highband?. Contact Principle B® 30% reduction in contact mass m Transmission length reduced from 72mm to 13mm Series 2 HIG

KRONE RIGHBAND

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the wire firmly in_position and

isolate the contact area from vibration and other forms of mechanical stress

Agenda - Highband

Highband Principle Performance Results Why Highband?

Applications Reference Sites Next Generation

4 Highband, the Challenge

Contact Principle

B® 30% reduction in

contact mass

m Transmission length reduced from 72mm to 13mm

Series 2 HIGHBAND 8

12.6mm

4 Features and Benefits?

One Tool Will Do Range - 8, 10, 16, 20 Compact 8

Accessories

Test Cords, Disconnect Plugs

m Patch By Exception

Auckland University Glaxo Smith Kline UK

> HIGHBAND The Next Generation

Agenda - ULTIM 8

Why Develop ULTIM 8?

Mechanically - How We Did It Electrically - What We Achieved

Features and Benefits Applications

4 Why Develop ULTIM 8?

m= HIGHBAND well exceeded the standard requirements m™ HIGHBAND offered maximum headroom to the standard requirements m@ HIGHBAND could supportll applications - existing and on the horizon

Category 6 was proposed Full duplex transmission systems desired

Gigabit and Tetrabit

Who says it wont happen!

> Mechanical - How we did it

Electrically - What we achieved

ULTIM8 CAT 6 Test

Features and Benefits

m@ Backward Compatibility ->Gost Saving

— Mounting

— Tooling

— Termination Method

Installer Familiarity -> -Productivity Savings Patch By Exception ->' Productivity Savings

KRONE ULTIM 8, The Most Cost Effective Solution!

Applications

All Legacy systems 10BT

100BT 1000BT ATM155 ATM655 Tetrabit Solutions Any System Designed to ISO 11801:2002 & EIA/TIA 568 B otandards

4 A Typical PremisNET Application

KRONE

RJ45 to RJ45 Patch Cord

Patch Panel

HUB Cable HIGHBAND Work-station

Modules Riser Cable

KRONE

Optical Fibre Distributor

Copper MDF KRONE Module

Fibre Backbone

PremisNET: A typical TrueNet C6T Application

((IDC to RU45 Solution)

4

trueNet C6T Cable

+=

Hub/Switch TruePatch

Con

HighBand to HignBand

Reference Sites

(ULTIM 8 was released in March 1999)

m A Very Large American Bank, London

# Glaxo Smith Klein G€ompany, London

Agenda - Patch By Exception

What is Patch By Exception?

How Does It Work?

Features and Benefit Reference Sites

> How Does It Work?

Normal Hardwired Solution

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HIGHBAND PATCH CORD

Features and Benefits

— Frame Always Neat and Tidy

— Record (Asset) Keeping

— Adds, Moves and Changes

— Eliminates Unauthorised Changes Easier Fault Finding

Improved Pair Utilisation

a PBE - A New Cable Management Concept!

42 RU Rack

84

22 2,000

KRO/99

Typical Application AccessNET

4 Features and Benefits (cont)

— Mounting

— Tooling

— Termination Method

m@ Installer Familiarity -> Productivity Savings

> Major Reference Sites

Hong Kong Telecom has standardised on the

HIGHBAND 10 product

Starhub (Singapore)

TELSTRA (Australia) HIGHBAND 10 for Standard termination

Summary

HIGHBAND

m Based on the KRONE LSA-Plus contact principle (45° angle)

m CAT 5E ULTIM 8

= Maximum headroom beyond CAT 6, class E transmission performance

8 pair disconnect module enables high speed LAN and WAN Patch By Exception - A new cable management concept Supports any system designed to ISO 11801 (2000)

HIGHBAND 10 m@ CAT 5E