Valere intros power for remote apps

Valere Power today debuted a new DC-based power system designed to address the ever-shrinking amount of rack space available in carriers’ remote terminals.

The product, dubbed the Integrated Power System, went from napkin stage to customer deployment in about a month, according to Al Cioffi, vice president of product management and business development for the Richardson, Texas-based company. Though the system was originally designed to meet the needs of a specific carrier customer, Valere decided to make it available to other service providers, Cioffi said.

The Integrated Power System consists of two power shelves with a DC distribution panel mounted over the top, all of which is connected to a common mounting rail. “The tendency is to pack more functionality into existing spaces,” he said. “There’s no need to buy another rack.”

Most remote sites have very limited space for adding equipment and are expensive to build out or expand, Cioffi said. “You’ve got three generations of technology sitting in the same facility, and they’re all drawing power, and they’re all generating heat,” he said.

Because the system uses existing rack space, it is designed specifically for carriers that don’t have a lot of room in controlled environment vaults, huts and other remote locations in which carriers are installing broadband equipment.

For that reason, among Valere’s primary targets are wireless base stations. “They’ve got the biggest space crunch going on,” Cioffi said.

The Integrated Power System also features remote management capabilities.