IT and Telecom: maximum system availability demands continuous power supply
By Isabelle Heriakian / Published on Fri, 2009-11-06 01:00Further reading
IT and Telecom: maximum system availability demands continuous power supply
- - A small PQ event can create substantial costs
- - Unresolved power quality issues can have an immediate impact on an IT or Telecom company’s reputation.
- - Power supply variations cost telephone company millions per event
- - Understanding the problems– designing the solutions
- - Profitable investment opportunities
To achieve system availabilities of the order of the six “9”s and beyond, IT and Telecom service providers are totally dependent upon a continuous power supply. Power variations or interruptions create significant disruptions for sectors that are judged by the reliability of their services.
Where the reliability of a system is only as good as its weakest link, builtin design redundancies have to be sufficient to guarantee that service. The European Copper Institute’s (ECI) Power Quality Survey demonstrates that the IT and Telecom sectors underestimate the impact of power interruptions and other Power Quality (PQ) incidents. It further illustrates that there is insufficient system design redundancy built into the electrical power systems to guarantee this level of reliability.
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