Challenge:

Customer is expanding to a new colocation facility. They are considering different power strips and ways to maximize power drops, densities, and rack space. In their past configuration, the customer used 208V 30Amps single phase power. Each rack has 4 feeds totaling 20 KW of usable power.

Solution:
Mirapath worked with the customer to calculate total available power based on different power input combinations, rack space use, costs of power drops and power strips, and number of servers supported.

Also, Mirapath provided competitive analysis of different power strip manufacturers and models of power strips.

Results:
Based on the calculations, the customer decided to switch from 4 x 208V 30Amps single phase per cabinet to 2 x 208V 30Amps 3 phase power in feeds. With the 2 x 208V 30Amps 3 phase power drops, the customer has 17KW which is less than the original 20KW. But it also achieved 45% in savings in the costs of power drops and power strips.  In this configuration, the customer will also have room to increase rack density by adding additional feeds to the rack.