Power Your Customer's Critical Equipment Reliably: Redundant and fault-tolerant distribution designs will increase process reliability and address critical power requirements

摘要

If you're an electrical contractor or engineer, you've no doubt noticed that customers with critical power needs are increasingly demanding 24/7/365 up-time from their computer-based systems due to the computer-driven nature of today's society. Internet service providers (ISPs), call response centers, insurance providers, manufacturers, and other businesses with computer-driven key processes absolutely must remain operational. To meet this ever-growing demand, computer hardware and software developers offer solutions that incorporate varying degrees of redundancy and fault tolerance. Hardware manufacturers like Dell Computer and IBM offer redundant and fault-tolerant fileservers. Microsoft operating systems software supports various levels of fault tolerance, mirroring redundant hardware support. Telecommunications and network equipment is available for supporting redundant LAN, WAN, Internet, and satellite communications. Although these technologies can provide some insurance, they're only as reliable as the electric utility source that powers them.