Network Communications News (NCN) April 2016 | Page 35

ESSENTIAL SELECTION

Batteries included
Schneider Electric has announced that
it will support the use of lithium-ion (Liion) batteries as an alternative to Valve
Regulated Sealed Lead-Acid (VRLA)
batteries for many of its three-phase
uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs).
Schneider Electric is helping customers
address some of the key challenges they
face with using UPSs including:

Jump to it
Siemon has launched 12 fibre MTP fibre jumpers with a smaller 2mm diameter
cable for improved pathway fill, airflow and accessibility in high density
fibre patching areas.
Connecting MPO/MTP backbone trunk cabling to active
equipment in 40/100 gigabit fibre applications, the jumpers
feature the compact design of the MTP connector footprint
and Siemon’s smaller 2mm RazorCore cable. MTP 2mm
jumpers are available in both B (straight-through wiring) and C
polarity for flexible deployment with a variety of MTP backbone trunks
and configurations while ensuring correct polarity throughout the channel.
The new MTP 2mm jumpers are part of Siemon’s comprehensive LightHouse advanced fibre
cabling solutions, and are available with either male or female connectivity. This supports easy
migration from 10 gigabit cassette-based MPO/MTP channels that use female-to-female trunk
assemblies to 40/100 gigabit applications that typically deploy male-to-male trunk assemblies.
The jumpers are available in OM3 and OM4 multimode fibre types and plenum, riser and lowsmoke, zero halogen (LSOH) versions. The jumpers with low loss specification have a loss budget of
only 0.2dB for greater performance and improved flexibility in 40/100 gigabit fibre applications.
MTP 2mm jumpers can be deployed with Siemon’s RIC, LightStackTM and FCP3 fibre enclosures.
For further information visit: www.siemon.com/lighthouse

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Significantly reducing UPS footprint and
weight to allow for a more effective use
of space: Li-ion batteries pack a lot of
energy into a much smaller footprint.
As a result, they take up only about one
third the space (or less) of a comparable
VRLA-based solution that delivers the
same power. This helps customers
increase the footprint available for IT
equipment while also reducing cooling
requirements, which saves both capital
costs and ongoing operating costs.
Extending UPS battery life and reducing
maintenance overhead: Lithium’s long
design life greatly reduces the cost and
maintenance burdens of performing
battery replacements.
Lithium-ion battery options are
available immediately for select projects
supporting Symmetra MW, Galaxy 7000
and Galaxy VM with broad availability in
the second half of 2016. Additional threephase product line support will be rolled
out through 2017.
For further information visit:
www.schneider-electric.com

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