APC - Data Center & Facility UPS

The right-sized UPS for demanding business critical applications

In a world that demands zero downtime, system availability is essential. As technologies and environments change via server consolidation, migration and centralization, businesses must be ready to adapt, quickly and constantly. The foundation of highly available networks, network-critical physical infrastructure (NCPI), is crucial to system availability and a company's agility. From surge protection to backup power, APC's end-to-end offering has a product for each price and performance criteria. From the challenge of operating an on-demand data center, to the implementationof high density applications or a VoIP network, to increasing mobile computing productivity, APC has the technology, systems and support to empower customers to meet their objectives.

APC Power Solutions cover a wide range of requirements. The more mission-critical the application, the higher the necessity for as little downtime as possible, mandating continued operation through outages of any length. Some organizations might not require such high availability, but require automatic, safe shutdown of important software and operating systems, keeping important data secure. Any power solution should, at the very least, prevent physical damage to hardware from transients (surges, spikes, sags, etc.).

Smart-UPS^® VT
Performance power protection with scalable runtime for small data centers

Range: 10 to 40kVA in 400V, 10 to 30kVA in 208V and 20 to 30kVA in 480V

Smart-UPS® VT offers centralized three-phase power protection with the reliability of the award winning Smart-UPS family. Ideal for small data centers, large retail stores, regional offices, and dense power requirements, the Smart-UPS VT includes dual-mains input, automatic and maintenance bypasses, and scalable runtime with hot-swappable batteries for increased availability. Low cost of ownership is achieved through best-inclass efficiency and a reduction in rating of electrical infrastructure (wires, transformers, and generators) due to Smart-UPS VT's Soft Start feature.

APC's Network Management Card with temperature monitoring provides remote monitoring and management through a simple Web/SNMP interface and provides integration with InfraStruXure^TM Manager. Serviceability is greatly enhanced by user-replaceable batteries, manageable extended run frames and included startup and standard onsite warranty services. All of these features make Smart-UPS VT the easiest UPS in its class to deploy, manage and maintain.

Symmetra^® PX
High-performance, redundant power protection with scalable power and runtime for data centers

Range: 10-80kW N+1

Symmetra® PX, three-phase input/three-phase output (3:3), is a single unit,composed of modular components. This modular architecture provides the foundation of building and scaling near-continuous availability power systems with a flexible range of power capacity. The Symmetra PX packages the high availability requirements of easy power and runtime scalability into a very small footprint.

Silcon^®
Performance power protection with scalable runtime for data centers and facilities

Range: 40 to 80kW in 208V, 10 to 500kW in 480V and 60 to 480 kW in 400V

The APC Silcon® Series has the load capacity to serve a broad range of electrical equipment, from mainframe computers to large corporation-wide installations, production lines, electronic control systems and telecommunication equipment. Up to nine Silcon units can be paralleled to serve special demands for power upgrading or redundancy. 

Availability
Customers can now enjoy the benefits of redundant UPSs by configuring and installing multiple 20kW units. For example, if kW requirements are high, up to 9 480kW UPSs can be paralleled to supply the load with the energy. Up to four units can be configured in parallel mode without requiring the installation of expensive external static switches.

Advanced power management
Silcon's intelligent control system can be programmed to maximise the overall efficiency of parallel Delta Conversion On-line systems. By designating as "active" only the systems needed to supply the load will be on-line, the other systems can be held in "stand-by" mode, ready to start up without interruption when required. Furthermore, to reduce stress and improve reliability, the load can be switched between the parallel systems in preprogrammed sequences.

Lower cost of ownership
The APC Silcon Series is higher in efficiency than other on-line technologies. The Delta Conversion On-line units simply do not consume large quantities of energy and also produce much less heat. Customers need not oversize an air-conditioning unit to compensate for the heat loss which traditional UPSs generate.

Lower installation cost
The APC Silcon Series has a power factor corrected input, ensuring that the input power factor is always one, regardless of load and utility voltage. A power factor of one minimises installation costs by requiring smaller cables and smaller fuses.

Eliminates wear and tear on electrical infrastructure
Utilities and power distributors are creating standards to limit the harmonic distortion produced by users. Violating these standards can be very costly. Many double-conversion 3-phase systems produce a level of harmonic distortion high enough to negatively impact the utility and its customers. To remedy the situation, customers are obliged to install large expensive filters. These filters further diminish the overall efficiency of the double-conversion machine. The Delta Conversion On-line technology, which maintains a sinusoidal utility current, eliminates this 3-phase double conversion topology problem.

Complient with power supplies, for the present and the future (kVA = kW)
Over the past three years, more and more computer manufacturers have built Power Factor Corrected (PFC) power supplies into their servers. In order to avoid unnecessary wear and tear on computer components, the Volt-Amps (VA) requirements of all the computers that make up the load need to equal the Watts (W) capacity of the UPS.

The APC Silcon Series is PFC compliant without derating the unit. Double-conversion 3-phase UPS systems are not PFC compliant. Therefore, as more and more PFC computers enter into your datacentre, there is an increasing probalitity that the legacy double-conversion 3-phase UPSs become overloaded. With the APC Silcon Series, this problem is eliminated because the kVA rating of the unit equals the kW rating.

If you want to set up a secure, and possibly also a high-availability data centre nowadays, then you will need a strong partner....

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