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Today’s high-density datacenter consumes more energy for cooling than for powering the systems it contains—and the problem is only going to get worse.
That’s why AFCO Systems is leading the green revolution in datacenter resource
management solutions with systems so powerful you can actually boost performance,
increase your density, reduce cooling tonnage by half and cut total cost of ownership
(TCO).
AFCO Systems, along with professional mechanical engineers and the leading global
financial institution, invented the active thermal enclosure in 1997. With the
more than 30,000 Kool-IT™ technology-enabled systems deployed, today, AFCO
Systems is the datacenter resource management solutions provider of choice for
top-tier institutions and Fortune 500® companies.
AFCO provides more than enclosures; we provide leading-edge, holistic technology
datacenter solutions. With decades of experience, our team analyzes each datacenter’s
requirements and tailors our technology to help customers overcome their challenges,
manage their dynamic datacenter environments and improve their bottom lines—innovative
solutions that work in the real world.
Products
AFCO provides green datacenter solutions that range
from basic enclosures for small, low-density applications
to complete prepackaged, scalable, active systems
for extremely high-density datacenters requiring
proactive thermal management of cooling and power
resources in real time at the enclosure and across
the datacenter.
At the center of the AFCO system is the K3 Resource
Manager, which provides real-time monitoring and
visibility of the cooling and power management
system, enabling organizations to obtain optimum
balanced cooling efficiencies and thermal performance
and greater control of operations across the datacenter.
The result is dramatic: greater cooling efficiency,
a higher level of server performance, greater cost
control and improved operations. Key to this efficiency
is the components that make up the system, including:
- K3
Enclosure Systems Intelligent
K3 Enclosure Systems featuring Kool-IT™ technology
and incorporating the Sidecar cabling option,
AFCO’s external cable management
option for Passive, HD and EHD enclosures
that takes the bulk of cabling and power
lines out of the enclosure, maximizing
interior space.
- K3
Power Systems A Smart Power
Platform that enables proactively managed
power resources in real time at the enclosure
and across the datacenter.
- Enclosures From
basic Passive to Extreme High Density
- Power
Distribution Units AFCO Power
Solutions provide options for Basic, Metered
and Smart monitored (managed) solutions,
which enable the ultimate in resource management
of datacenter power utilization.
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Enclosures
AFCO Systems offers a complete line of enclosure solutions
to meet the needs of just about any datacenter environment.
These enclosures provide a full range of capabilities
for virtually every current or planned datacenter
application.
It begins with a passive unit for low-density applications,
which is fully upgradeable to a high-efficiency, active
system by integrating AFCO’s Frost & Sullivan
award-winning Kool-IT™ technology.
The full line of active enclosures with embedded Kool-IT™ technology
provides air-cooled systems capable of handling up
to 24KW.
How it works
The AFCO solution replaces the majority of perforated
floor tiles in the datacenter with solid tiles and
seamlessly connects the enclosure directly to cool
air plenum under the raised floor through a patented
Plenum Plate in the base of the enclosure. This makes
the enclosure an extension of the cooling system and
fully integrated into the datacenter.
The air flow is further controlled by variable speed
fans driven by the Thermal Management Module (TMM)
in the enclosure, which has intelligence and a thermal
sensor network to continually monitor the temperature
of the cabinet and automatically adjust the airflow
as needed to deliver optimal thermal performance. The
TMM also manages all local alerts through audible alarms
and serves as the communication hub to AFCO’s
K3 Resource Manager.
Another key component is the patented Door Baffle
System, which further enhances the thermal performance
by preventing short cycling and directing the airflow
to create a 3D air pattern in the enclosure. The Door
Baffle System also allows Kool-IT™ Technology-enabled enclosures
to utilize cool ambient air to mix with raised floor
very cool air, increasing the CFM of air available to
the equipment while increasing the overall capacity of
the datacenter. This increased CFM is due to Kool-IT™ Technology
controlling the hot exhaust air of the equipment and
maintaining cooler room air to be reused by the system.
Like any well-engineered product, the execution appears
so simple it’s almost difficult to conceive.
To recap the easiness of Kool-IT™ Technology,
there are three unique features working all together
enabling this management system to be so effective
and deliver twice as much cooling with half the tonnage
of HA/CA. It begins with controlling static pressure
and regulating airflow from the plenum floor. Secondly,
Kool-IT™’s technology utilizes variable
speed fans and sensors to control exhaust temperature,
delivering the optimal desired temperature to the return
air of your CRAHs. In doing so, we have a thermally
well-balanced room, allowing a Kool-IT™ Technology-enabled
enclosure to blend room air in a controlled manner
from the lower half of your room for increased heat
dissipation. Again and again, Kool-IT™ Technology-enabled
enclosures have successfully been deployed in hybrid
environments and still deliver much increased performance
to server inlet temperatures.
Different Enclosure Platforms
Kool-IT™ Technology’s three-prong approach is utilized a little differently
in each of the three K3 enclosure platforms. While the physics of control remain
constant each is applied a little differently in order to optimize performance
for different applications. To view the way Kool-IT™ works with these K3
enclosures, select the following:
Savings
Power consumption and availability around the world
is at crisis levels. Limited resources, rolling blackouts
and price escalation threaten the stability of critical
systems in every industry. Companies are faced with
the need to conserve energy and reduce operating
costs. Kool-IT™ Technology provides reliable
cooling while reducing installation costs and slashing
operating costs in datacenter environments, and here’s
why:
- Kool-IT™ Technology balances cooling across
the datacenter by delivering cool air directly to
the heat source
- Kool-IT™ Technology balances cooling across
the datacenter, to maintain proper Delta T back to
the CRAH
- Kool-IT™ Technology controls cool air in
the enclosure to constantly deliver cool air to the
server inlet
- Kool-IT™ Technology provides visibility into
the specific thermal conditions in the server enclosure
- Kool-IT™ Technology continually adjusts airflow
to provide optimal thermal conditions, performance
and efficiencies
- Kool-IT™ Technology control allows for maximizing
cooling efficiencies
- Kool-IT™ Technology enables more flexible
datacenter design
- Kool-IT™ Technology can help extend the lifespan
of a datacenter far beyond expectations
- Kool-IT™ Technology enables higher server
density in the enclosure and across the datacenter
Kool-IT™ Technology dramatically improves efficiencies,
delivering cost savings by reducing cooling requirements
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