
See the winners in the Infrastructure category from the Connected Home ‘Most Popular’ Awards 2012.
The winners* in the Infrastructure category of the Connected Home ‘Most Popular’ Awards 2012 as chosen by industry professionals across Australia are as follows:
*(Note: installers were able to choose more than one brand, so the results won’t necessarily add up to 100%).


Cabling (non-HDMI): Belden (34.8%), Kordz (32.6%), Audioquest (20.6%), Liberty (15.6%), Monster (12.1%), Tributaries (9.9%), Nordost (2.0%), Cardas (1.5%), ICE Cabling (1.5%), Kimber Kable (1.5%), Key Digital (1.5%), Transparent (1.5%)

Cooling systems: Cool Components (34.8%), Fantech (34.8%), Active Thermal Management (21.4%), Middle Atlantic (17.9%)

HDMI Cabling: Kordz (41.0%), Audioquest (23.0%), Belden (22.3%), Monster (12.9%), Tributaries (11.5%), Belkin (5.0%), Kramer (4.3%), Liberty (2.9%), QED (2.9%), Extron (2.9%)

Matrix switches: Leaf Audio / Nexus Technologies (31.0%), Crestron (29.2%), Gefen (24.8%), Snap AV (14.2%), Atlona (14.2%), Zector (11.5%), AMX (8.0%), Kramer (6.2%), Extron (4.4%), Intelix (4.4%)
Racks / cabinets: Middle Atlantic (57.6%), Snap AV (22.8%), Sanus (16.3%), Proconnect (15.2%), B&R (9.8%), Rack Technologies (9.8%), 4Cabling (8.7%), Hallam (7.6%), Wideband (5.4%), Clipsal (4.3%)

Routers: Netgear (49.4%), Cisco (47.5%), D-Link (25.0%), Billion (10.6%), Belkin (6.9%), Ruckus (2.5%), DrayTek (1.9%)
Telephony: Cisco (41.0%), Panasonic (37.6%), NEC (23.1%), Samsung (15.4%), Savant (6.0%), Avaya (4.3%), Hybrex (2.6%), Alcatel-Lucent (1.7%), Siemens (1.7%)