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Eliminate visits to the data center Rack Power Transfer Switch

Rack Power Transfer

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Rashi Varshney
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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Raritan International India, a  provider of IT infrastructure management solutions and a KVM major, has  launched Rack Transfer Switch – which uses a patent-pending hybrid design for faster load transfers from one power source to another offering outlet-level metering and power switching.

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The switch comes with  network-ready controller with display, and with two USB-A and one USB-B ports to support Wi-Fi networking, webcams and cascading to share IP drops.  The switch’s sensor ports support optional Raritan plug-and-play sensors for monitoring environmental conditions in the racks.

It is the first of its’ kind to offer both electromechanical relays and silicon-controlled rectifiers (SCRs) to overcome the limitations of a traditional automatic transfer switch (ATS), the company claims in a statement.

“ By introducing outlet-level metering and switching capabilities to our transfer switch today we are providing tools to help customers better manage their infrastructure resources and create intelligent data centers," said Sanjay Motwani, Regional Director, India, SEA, Taiwan & Hong Kong, Raritan International.

The new transfer switch can monitor power at the outlet-level, as well as the inlet-level, providing more granular energy information useful for capacity planning and managing energy costs. The transfer switch’s new secure switching capabilities enable power to a device to be turned on and off remotely – eliminating visits to the data center.

“Before Raritan released its first intelligent rack transfer switch model, the choices were limited,” said David Wood, Director, Power Business, Raritan.  According to Wood, automatic transfer switches (ATS) were inexpensive, but suffered from longer transfer times of 8 to 16ms, and often failed as a result of electrical arcing that welded contacts together.  And, static transfer switches offered very fast transfers of 4 to 6ms, but were nearly six times more expensive than ATS, drew more energy, and produced excess heat that consumed additional cooling resources.

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