Rack Mount Power Distribution Unit

Raritan’s award-winning intelligent power solutions offer the greatest functionality available in the market with an emphasis on individual outlet level power metering, environmental monitoring, and support for high powered devices.

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The Raritan PX family of high-quality, intelligent rack power distribution units (iPDUs) offers real-time remote power monitoring of current (amps), voltage, power (kVA, kW) and energy consumption (kWh) with +/- 1% billing-grade accuracy, even at individual outlets.

The PX series offers hundreds of models to meet all your data center applications, including models with remote outlet switching, individual outlet metering, high-power for blade servers and high-density applications, and 400V power distribution.

The growing complexity of IT environments, from wiring closets and server rooms to data centers of all sizes, has increased the need for reliable power distribution to the rack level. Eliminating power management issues is essential for IT and Facilities managers to maintain system availability of increasing higher density equipment. Power Distribution Units are an essential element in managing power capacity and functionality for critical network, server and data center equipment.

APC provides a wide array of power distribution solutions for your IT environment. APCs standardized PDUs are designed to increase the manageability and efficiency of your data center. Power Distribution solutions provide real-time remote load monitoring of connected equipment and individual outlet power control for remote power recycling, manage power-up or power-down sequencing of equipment. IT and Data Center Managers rely on APC PDU alarms to warn of potential power overloads before critical IT failures occur.

The Smart CDU products provide reliable power distribution coupled with remote power & environmental monitoring. Use the network interface to view power, temperature and humidity levels via Web browser, or SNMP-based and email alerts when conditions exceed defined thresholds. When combined with Sentry Power Manager (SPM), globally view the power of every CDU on the network from a single pane of glass interface making data center power monitoring simple.