[182205] in North American Network Operators' Group
In-rack DC distribution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Lixfeld)
Mon Jul 13 07:43:19 2015
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From: Jason Lixfeld <jason@lixfeld.ca>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 07:43:12 -0400
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Mornin=E2=80=99,
I=E2=80=99ve been looking for the holy grail of in-rack A/B DC =
distribution, unfortunately without much success so far.
In a perfect world, I=E2=80=99d have the equivalent of what we know and =
love about 0U vertical AC distribution rails (i.e.: APC), except with =
A/B feeds - lots of outlets, takes up no space in the rack, managed, =
remotely switched, etc. I=E2=80=99ve only found one vendor who makes =
such a beast for the DC world, but the breakers are manual - if it =
trips, or if you need to cycle it, you're rolling a truck. The beauty =
of this though is that it can take the gambit of breakers from 5A-200A.
I=E2=80=99ve also been looking for something in the 1U world with A/B =
feeds. GMT panels are super high density, but GMT fuses are limited to =
15A, so something that had small breakers (solid state, maybe??) 5-40A =
would be the holy grail there. Again, managed, remotely monitored per =
input/per output, remotely switched or reset would be the holy grail.
Does anyone know of anything like this out there anywhere?
