How Reliable Is New York City’s Power System?
Looking up at New York City’s more than 6000 high-rise buildings and skyscrapers can make understanding the scope of one of the world’s largest cities staggering. You can create a similar effect by thinking about the electrical system powering all those buildings. Consisting of over 200 enmeshed networks, the system stretches over 660 square miles and houses almost 130,000 miles of cable – more than half the distance from the city to the moon. Manhattan’s 39 networks alone could supply enough cable to go around the world.
Digital Transformation Begins At Your Data Center
The use of Big Data, AI and IoT has only compounded consumer needs and data centers need to continue to evolve to keep up.
Key elements within a data center, such as reliability, scalability, and security, remain at the forefront, however, to stay ahead of the game and allow a data center to scale and achieve its desired digital transformation, the design must be a combination of meeting its needed objectives along with achieving the highest technological advancements.
Big Apple, Smart City
Technology has always been essential to the economic growth of New York City. Today, disruptive digital technology and the exponential growth of data are poised to transform every aspect of New York City’s economy, communications, government, and lives of its inhabitants. And it’s difficult to conceive of anything more disruptive than the adoption of smart city systems and applications.
So where does NYC stand on its path to smart city transformation? Download this free eBook to learn how New York is fast becoming the greatest smart city in the world.
ISE Magazine – A Powerful Solution for Conquering Conduit Cable Chaos
When Steve Haus inspects a typical conduit array, inside a typical manhole vault, on a typical jobsite, the number of cable placements found there is anything but typical. In fact, the number can be daunting.
You see, Steve’s typical jobsite can include the Concourse Plaza in the Bronx, or Times Square in Manhattan. Situations such as these are where you are likely to find manhole vaults equipped with dozens of cable conduits (or ducts) deploying a Medusa of cables in all 4 directions.