Finding the right UPS systems for communications and network rooms

摘要

UPS systems are well-established in large-scale applications such as data centres. However, their protection is increasingly required for smaller environments such as communications and networking rooms, or building services equipment. While being scaled down, UPSs for these applications must still offer the same benefits as their larger counterparts, as the supported loads can be just as critical. In this article Alan Luscombe, director at Uninterruptible Power Supplies Ltd., a Kohler company, looks at the issues, and the solutions available from leading UPS suppliers. Today, UPS systems have become ubiquitous within data centres - and, like the data processing equipment they serve, they are typically large-scale while offering a very high level of availability, which is essential to meet modern transactional throughput rates.