[c-nsp] DC Powered Box

[Justin Shore]

Jon Lewis wrote:
> 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.

Being a telco we had to do this for some of our low-end networking 
devices in some COs.  The end result with our La Marche's is a waste of 
4-5U for 4.5amps output @ 120.  I too would like a quality DC server 
solution.

Justin