Data Centers

For today’s communications, banking, and financial sectors, the reliance of data centers to obtain, store, retrieve, communicate, and utilize data is vital. Large data centers can be a standalone structure or specified rooms or doors within a facility. Small data centers range from a single room to a standalone equipment rack

Whether the data center is categorized as large or small, the demand to process more data continues to grow. For this reason, organizations have replaced existing equipment with new, smaller, and more powerful technology. However, this newer IT equipment is also more susceptible to power fluctuations and transient conditions.

Providing adequate transient protection requires that SPDs be installed throughout the facility. The IEEE Emerald Book recommends that SPDs be installed at these specific areas within the data center:

• Each service entrance location
  
• Each distribution level switch gear, UPS, or PDU
  
• All point of use locations (specic IT and HVAC equipment)
  
• Any system (HVAC, re alarm, security) that requires components to be located external to the structure of the facility

Hospitality & Health

Healthcare is probably the best example of an industry that absolutely needs clean power. With increasingly advanced technological equipment, dirty power can literally put people’s lives at stake.

Six out of 10 healthcare institutions in the U.S. will launch new construction or renovation projects to accommodate increasing demand, and more than 25% will add new data centers as the nation moves to increased reliance on electronic medical records (EMRs). The rapidly increasing
need for consistent, high-quality power cannot be overemphasized. In addition, patients’ health, property and capital investments are also at risk.

For ultimate protection, healthcare institutions need cascading surge protection that includes:

• Type 1 SPDs installed at SE locations, emergency power sources, and external ATS terminals.
• Type 2 SPDs installed at all distribution locations and internal ATS.
• Active Tracking Filters TM installed “upstream” of key essential equipment.
• Data lines protected at transmission and receiving ends.
• All security (cameras and line) and re-alarm panels protected.

Commercial & Industrial

• Agriculture – Prevent productivity loss, as well as material or stock waste from unexpected power outages.
• Education – Maintain power for critical load areas, such as data centers, emergency lighting facilities and storage facilities that require uninterrupted power supply.
• Government – Maintain critical load areas such as lighting, communication and data centers vital to government facilities.
• Hospitality – Back up power without disrupting operations and lighting.
• Manufacturing – Meet increasing production volumes and time-to-market rates.
• Offices – Ensure continued protection of the growing number of electrical devices, even during maintenance.
• Retail – Ensure continued business operations and prevent perishables from going to waste.
• Telecommunications – Ensure continuous service for applications, and maintain and monitor systems for optimal performance.
• Transportation – Keep vital transportation equipment going despite extended power loss.
• Utilities – Secure emergency power systems for reliable power quality and protection.

Telecommunications

Telecommunications companies are also extremely vulnerable to power quality issues, since their operations begin and end with transactions moving through electronic systems.

The industry landscape is rapidly changing, with voice communications steadily moving toward VoIP environments. Telcos of every size, in both public and private networks, can expect to face a dual challenge of supporting existing TDM network services and adding similarly enriched VoIP capabilities.

The average consumer has high expectations for the quality and reliability of services, from phone and other communications services to computers and everything in between. Increasing demand for multifunctional devices adds to the challenge and complexity.

Most switch providers understand the importance of effective surge protection and the associated costs of equipment or system failure if there are gaps in that protection. However, the challenge remains to protect voltage-and time-sensitive solid-state equipment from voltage sags, swells, outages, and transients that can seriously affect their operation. And as with so many other industries, telecoms must also focus on heeding to the threats that nature poses to their power-reliant systems.

Mission Critical

• Air Traffic Control – Protect critical load centers; get efficient power monitoring programs for seamless operations.
• Data Center – Prevent information loss, ensure business critical continuity, and stay ahead of the competition.
• Healthcare – Support operations and ensure constant uptime for critical medical facilities.
• Telecommunications – Ensure reliable support for vital telecom infrastructures for uninterrupted service to customers.

Residential / Light Commercial

• Gas and Convenience Stores – Continue business operations with emergency power systems.
• Residential – Protect critical load areas to minimize inconveniences of unexpected power loss.
• Restaurant – Meet minimum load requirements and prevent food spoilage; or continue operations despite extended power outages.

Government & Corporate Facilities

Every business needs reliable, consistent, high-quality power to ensure its continued operation. Proper power protection can:

• Deliver grid-to-chip protection for critical equipment and processes in electronics.
• Keep data centers secure.
• Provide peace-of-mind for communications’ infrastructures.
• Defend fire, alarm, and security systems from downtime and damage

Maintain critical load areas such as lighting, communication and data centers vital to government facilities.
Ensure continued protection of the growing number of electrical devices, even during maintenance
Secure emergency power systems for reliable power quality and protection.