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RACKS & CABINETS
CONTENTS INTEGRATED RACK AND CABINET TECHNOLOGIES
TOP-OF-RACK CONSIDERATIONS TOR CABLING AND SWITCHING OVERCOMING BAD VIBRATIONS HOW MANY CONTAINER RACKS? RACK BASED MONITORING STEEL AND GLASS MORE THAN FURNITURE SPONSORS 04 08
Humble they may be but they carry the load and as anyone will tell you, proximity is key to measurement.
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A rack system, for it is truly becoming a system, is the integration layer for an increasing amount of equipment. A standalone cabinet is becoming a data center in a box. A container should first be measured by how many racks it can accommodate.
On top of the rack, switch makers have products which uplink to the network offering higher port density, better cooling, and more tidy cable runs.
Cooling at the rack and cabinet level is driving efficiency by putting the solution next to the problem. The number of solutions on display at our New York conference in March – from air to water - show just how important this field is and how much innovation is ongoing.
And of course the degree to which users can now monitor racks and cabinets to ensure they are operating as they are supposed to be is offering unprecedented insight.
Remember when the Hubble Space Telescope didn’t work because one group working on the lens was working in imperial measurements and one group was using the metric system. In the end they sent a Space Shutttle mission to put some corrective glasses on it. The expense was huge.
That was a salutory lesson in the fact that if you don’t get the simple things right, the complicated things are unlikely to work.
Blanking plates anyone?
Ambrose McNevin Editor in Chief
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THE NOT SO HUMBLE RACK
The simple answer is usually the correct one. As control moves to the software layer or the processor and as fans become more variable and power provision becomes dynamic the physical world of racks and cabinets can appear arcane.
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