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Schneider Electric announced its Edge Module, a new prefabricated data center module designed to help empower telco customers to more effectively operate, manage, monitor, control and administer distributed data center environments. Schneider Electric's Edge Module is the latest addition to its portfolio of prefabricated solutions for the planning, designing and building of data centers.
Today's digital world continues to expand with the growing implementation of technologies, such as 5G, smart homes, IoT enabled devices, autonomous cars and drone delivery programs, creating a need for higher processing power closer to the end user that meets the demand for ever-increasing bandwidth and allow decisions to be made at the source. With an ever-growing number of cell tower sites, the telco industry is positioned to define the edge environment that supports the demand of these technologies. However, while edge computing is poised to address these challenges, the edge computing endpoints themselves, which are often distributed and remote, must also be managed.
Data Center Module - Integration for the Telco Edge
Schneider Electric's Edge Module is designed to help empower customers to address these challenges by enabling more flexible, scalable and autonomous edge deployments. Comprised of pre-integrated power, cooling, software and IT components, the Edge Module is a turnkey, self-contained solution for simpler, more cost-effective deployment. The new module can be deployed with single or three-phase power with a more flexible power train in multiple ranges, N+1 standard cooling, which includes a free air option and is able to be modified based on site requirements, as well as package cooling units mounted on the outside of the module to help eliminate the need for external condensers or piping.
The Schneider Electric Edge module is also suited to the cell tower edge with its single-phase design equipped for 208 volts of power, designed to be more flexible and scalable to help manage a power train up to 48 KW with N+1 cooling. Additionally, six racks can be configured into two bay racks, as a single bay rack, and also a custom four bay rack.
Leveraging Schneider Electric's EcoStruxture software platform, the module can be metered, remotely monitored and controlled, helping customers to run an autonomous or "lights out" application. Security can be built in with features, such as key locks, rack mounted and exterior cameras, exterior lights, and a card kit key reader.