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tion, at a reasonable price. Data centres
are all about “uptime” or, conversely, how
frequently servers are not available to us-
ers. Virtually all businesses use servers
for data storage, back and front office op-
erations, transaction processing and other
mission critical activities. Uptime is largely
impacted by the degree of redundancy
built into the power supply and fibre con-
nections. Two redundant pieces of critical
equipment, two fibres and two sources of
power are better than one. Downtime can
be very expensive and very likely as the
grid does fail from time to time and sin-
gular pieces of equipment can also fail or
fibre networks can go down.
