Global cabling system company eyes Indonesian market

Global cabling system company eyes Indonesian market

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Seeing the low level of investment in cable channeling
infrastructure in Indonesia, an American company specializing in
cabling systems and connectivity solutions sees an opportunity to
expand in the country by promoting a new cabling solutions
technology.

Systimax Solutions, which has provided structured connectivity
solutions and services for 120 companies worldwide, introduced to
Indonesia on Monday the Gigaspeed X10D Solution, a technology
able to support demanding applications such as high-resolution
video, grid computing and storage area network (SAN).

"We think Indonesia is lacking investment in cabling system
infrastructure. The country's total cabling market reaches only
US$6 million a year.

"This is too small for a country with more than 200 million
people," said the vice president and managing director of
Systimax Solutions for Asia Pacific, Ispan Kandasamy.

"Hopefully with this new technology, Indonesia will be able to
improve the infrastructure, as well as to attract more foreign
investors. We're confident that Indonesia provides a good
opportunity for enterprise infrastructure," he said.

According to a recent survey by BRSIA, a market research firm
focusing on market data for cable infrastructure, Indonesia's
2004 cabling market reached $6.9 million, second lowest among
Indonesia, Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, the
Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand.

BRSIA forecast that Indonesia's cabling market was likely to
increase by an annual rate of 9.2 percent from $7.5 million in
2005 to $8.5 million in 2007.

"The company (Systimax Solutions) has acquired a 30 percent
share in the worldwide cable solution market," said Ispan, adding
that most of the company's customers were from the oil and gas,
tobacco, manufacturing and financial businesses industries.

Systimax Solutions technical director for the Asia Pacific,
Russell Julius, said to be able to use the GigaSpeed X10D
technology, companies needed high bandwidth applications,
multisite collaboration and streaming media.

"These companies need to take technical training for about
three to four days," he said.

Besides Systimax Solutions, cabling solutions are also offered
by, among others, Krone of Australia and Belden Cdt and Siemon of
the U.S. (001)