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Optimized for Power, Cooling, and Performance
As a leading physical infrastructure partner for Cisco, Panduit works with Cisco engineering and product teams to develop optimal
physical layer solutions for their networking products. As such, these Panduit Pre-Configured Physical Infrastructures were designed
specifically for the Cisco
®
UCS, Nexus and Catalyst platforms to balance scalability, power, and thermal characteristics. This approach
ensures that the physical infrastructure deployments are optimized for power, cooling, and performance, lowering infrastructure risks
and costs while increasing agility and sustainability.
Scalability
Panduit Pre-Configured Physical Infrastructures for Cisco
®
UCS, Nexus, and Catalyst platforms are designed to support various line
card and equipment densities, thus enabling business growth and agility across the entire offering.
Panduit Pre-Configured Physical Infrastructures also accommodate migration from 10G to 40G/100G Ethernet with minimum
investment and downtime. Making changes to a Cisco
®
UCS, Nexus, or Catalyst platform deployment is easy, with modular
QuickNet
™
Patch Panels and connectivity, enabling quick migration to higher speeds.
Optimized Power and Thermal Management
Equipment configurations ensure even power usage within an individual cabinet and across multiple cabinets, minimizing hot spots
that can impact system performance and reliability. Panduit Power Outlet Units (POUs) are available separately to provide optimal
capacity and redundancy across all Cisco
®
UCS, Nexus and Catalyst platforms.
Panduit Pre-Configured Physical Infrastructures for Cisco
®
UCS, Nexus, and Catalyst platforms conserve energy by establishing
front-to-back airflow patterns and synergistic physical layouts to maximize power and thermal efficiencies.
Panduit Pre-Configured Physical Infrastructures for Cisco
®
UCS, Nexus,
and Catalyst platforms offer high-density, optimum heat load data center
designs for greater thermal efficiencies.
• Perforated cabinet doors and cabinet frame designs that maximize
airflow area
• Optional Vertical Exhaust Systems (VES) that isolate and duct hot
exhaust air to the hot air return plenum to improve hot/cold air
separation, thus enabling cooling efficiency
• Vertical air dams and sealing features that minimize leak paths
between hot and cold aisles, ensuring that valuable cooling goes
through equipment
• Thermal load distributions within cabinets that maximize the
availability of cooling airflow
When combined with additional Panduit passive, optimized thermal
management solutions, Panduit Pre-Configured Physical Infrastructures
for Cisco
®
UCS, Nexus, and Catalyst platforms can provide substantial
reductions in the energy costs of a typical data center.
Raised Floor Cold Air Supply
Cold
Aisle
Above Ceiling Hot Air Return
The use of Computational Fluid Dynamics by
Panduit Labs provides optimum cabinet designs
and energy efficiency.