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[Jon Lewis]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 nachocheeze at gmail.com wrote:

> I'm looking to put in a machine in one of our colo facilities to do
> various NMS type stuff (remote console server, network monitoring,
> etc) for a bunch of our network gear.  However, getting an AC power
> feed to our rack is pretty much out; like most telco-hotels, it's
> almost all DC power.

Though you can get DC power supplies for PC's another option worth 
consideration is a rack-mount inverter which will make AC from the 
colo-supplied DC.  We've used these to power 2900XL series switches when 
AC power wasn't available.

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