1. Thermal Shutdown from Failed Air Conditioning
You may have backup power for your revenue-generating
equipment, but do you have backup power for your air conditioning?
A surprising number of telecoms forget about the
need for air conditioning in a power outage. They may have
a DC battery power plant for revenue-generating equipment,
but they provide no alternate AC power for air conditioning.
Just because equipment isn't rack-mounted doesn't
mean it's not critical to network operations.
The revenue-generating equipment keeps running - until
the rising temperature forces a thermal shutdown. Thermal
shutdown from failed air conditioning is, in the long run, a
greater expense than a site that simply fails from a power
outage. Equipment in thermal shutdown can't be restarted
until the temperature returns to normal - long after the
power outage is over. This makes recovery time longer and
reduces revenue.
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