[geeks] Re: geeks digest, Vol 1 #64 - 14 msgs

[Joshua D. Boyd]

What's this 48v thing people are talking about?

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Joshua Boyd

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> There are OEM vendors that take Sun boxes and make them 48v rack systems for telco/colo installations. I recall that Sun even had a line of 48v machines aimed at the telco market (re-worked case/PS for a midrange Ultra server, IIRC), but that was about 4 years ago, I think.
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> I don't know how popular they were, as everyone had gotten used to working around the 48v issue a long time ago - I think it was mainly for deploying servers/routers/whatever in COs that have no provision for 110v UPS...
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> Ken
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