Your Challenge
New racks and cabinets - full of power-hungry equipment - are popping up in your datacenters like weeds in the spring. Sooner or later, a single piece of faulty equipment in a computer room will trigger the nearest breaker in line. That breaker should isolate the problem to a single rack and protect the rest of the room. But if the breaker is under-rated, it could fault as well; at worst, it could arc, damaging nearby equipment and cascading the fault up-line. It could end with the collapse of your entire network.
The Emerson Network Power solution
Short Circuit and Coordination Studies for each datacenter could uncover inadequately rated or uncoordinated protection equipment. A study - conducted by an experienced technician, using state-of-the-art audit and diagnostic tools - will identify where new equipment has outgrown your protection and provide a remediation and growth plan.
- A Short Circuit Study will check every breaker and fuse, from the mainbreaker to the PDU's, against rated and actual loads, identify suspect equipment, and recommend corrective action.
- A Coordination Study will ensure that all relays, breakers and fuses are properly sized and coordinated to properly isolate any short circuits, and recommend ways to balance protection with the need to keep certain mission-critical equipment running at all times.
The Result
A datacenter protected from catastrophic failure that cascades from a single equipment problem, and a coordinated plan for balancing growth and protection. It's just one piece of our Business Critical Continuity™ package of services designed to ensure that your critical network infrastructure will not go down and disrupt your business. Only Emerson Network Power can deliver on that promise 24/7 anywhere in the world.