[AusNOG] DC POPs

[Tim Warnock]

Sorry - I should have clarified: dual voltage for us is 24v and 48v DC.

I see a lot of resellers for the Eaton stuff as linked by Phillip and
yourself - is there any of them that specialise in the Telco gear or
recommendations of who to talk to?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Hooper [mailto:dhooper at gold.net.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:21 PM
> To: Tim Warnock; ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: RE: [AusNOG] DC POPs
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> We use Eaton APS rectifiers to feed our 48v equipment, APS3-059 is
> pretty much our standard kit as it includes battery charging breakers, 3
> 48v rectifiers onboard with an snmp enabled Ethernet management card so
> we can pull our stats remotely. Unfortunately to my knowledge they don't
> offer a remote reboot ability, each rectifier has its own AC feed so you
> can split your AC input over multiple sources.
> 
> As for dual voltage pops, we try and keep everything DC, a pair of APS's
> and strings of batteries seems to be fairly unstoppable, AC UPS don't
> seem to scale very well, pure DC based systems we can literally just
> keep adding batteries to increase our capacity as needed.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Daniel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-
> bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Tim Warnock
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 May 2011 9:11 AM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: [AusNOG] DC POPs
> 
> Morning,
> 
> I'm currently looking after a number of DC POP sites (with a few more to
> build) and I'm interested to hear how other people have done it as a
> point of reference.
> 
> What are people using as their DC rectifiers?
> 
> DC breaker panels/distribution panels? Are yours
> monitored/metered/remote reboot capable?
> 
> If you have dual voltage POPs, how you are you handling it?
> 
> Sales types: you can contact me off list if you have something to offer
> in this area.
> 
> Thanks
> Tim.
> 
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