A 4,000-square-foot lab designed to educate, demonstrate, and evaluate networking and security infrastructure products has been unveiled at telecom distributor Anixter’s (www.anixter.com) corporate headquarters in Glenview, IL.

Anixter has unveiled its new Infrastructure Solutions Lab, designed to give customers the means to test drive new security systems before rolling them out in their own enterprise environments.

In 2001, enterprise structured cabling distributor Anixter entered the security market with sales less than US $30 million. Today, the company’s security sales have grown globally into the “hundreds of millions”.

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By offering educational workshops, providing published resource guides and bringing integrators into its new Solutions Lab to test products, Anixter helps its customers decide which combination of security products will meet their needs

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