Space, cooling and power are the three main limitations of most existing facilities designed for low density. But as requirements for cloud computing grow and budgets shrink, telecom operators are placed in a tough spot on how they can support increasingly dense configurations through their existing infrastructures. In a recent study on IT and communications infrastructure, conducted by Emerson Network Power, energy efficiency, high density (cooling) and availability (uptime) were ranked as major priorities from the respondents.

Apart from these priorities, data center professionals are also challenged with related issues such as:

• Limited building facilities – floor space for cooling and power equipment
• Providing customers with highly scalable, reliable and capacity-on-demand infrastructure in the most cost-effective way
• Providing real-time facility monitoring to monitor room and equipment rack temperatures, AC & DC power demands, security access and surveillance
• Achieving capital expense savings at the infrastructure level through increased asset utilization
• Removing the risk of building air shutdown
• Reducing energy consumption to reduce OPEX

Are you ready to handle Growth and Change?
By 2014, there will be over 5 billion personal devices connecting to mobile networks. According to Cisco’s Global Mobile Data forecast, annual global mobile data traffic will reach 3.6 exabytes per month or annual run rate of 40 exabytes by 2014. Two major global trends are driving this increase – the proliferation of mobile-ready devices and widespread mobile video content consumption. In response, your IT infrastructure must be ready to handle the growing power and cooling requirements. The Power and Cooling demand will only accelerate when Telco starts adopting Cloud Computing.

Emerson Network Power’s product solutions aim to help telecom operators study and understand their existing resources and evaluate how they can be consolidated, stacked and better put to use for optimum resource consumption.