Tripp Lite

Tripp Lite is a manufacturer of power protection equipment. With its head office in Chicago, Illinois, Tripp Lite maintains its worldwide presence through offices around the world.

Products

UPS systems, installation cabinets, network filters, voltage stabilizers, inverters, cables, network control software.

History

2021: Acquisition by Eaton

Electrical equipment manufacturer Eaton buys its rival Tripp Lite, a supplier of UPS and data center equipment, for $1.65 billion, intending to significantly expand its portfolio in the power protection and peripheral computing market. This became known on January 29, 2021.

Eaton Corp., headquartered in Dublin (Ireland), as of January 2021 has 92 thousand employees worldwide, with customers in more than 175 countries, and plans to use Tripp Lite's extensive portfolio of solutions in the field of power protection and data center infrastructure, including more than 5,000 items.

The purchase of Tripp Lite will expand the reach of our portfolio of products in the market of peripheral computing and distributed IT infrastructure, as well as our business of single-phase UPS, "said Uday Yadav, president and operations director of Eaton's electrical division, in an official statement.

Tripp Lite, headquartered in Chicago, specializes in data center infrastructure and power protection solutions, including UPS, battery packs, backup batteries, power distribution units, and a range of data center equipment. The company also supplies network KVM switches, server racks, sensors, fiber optic network cables, interactive displays and proprietary micro data centers EdgeReady.

Tripp Lite positions EdgeReady as the industry's first and only micro-datacenter, delivered within three business days with dozens of off-the-shelf configurations. The company can also customize each aspect of any configuration to suit specific client applications.

The planned deal is expected to close in mid-2021^[1].

2012: The goal is to ensure high availability in the data center

The task is to ensure high availability in the data center, independent of the technology used. This process is described by international rules and standards, it depends on four subsystems and physical structure, which should be considered with the same relevance and level of investment when creating or upgrading a data center

The United States Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) has developed standards for data centers that describe four levels of data center availability. At the same time, each of these layers is divided into four zones or subsystems (architecture, mechanical, telecommunications and electrical). The minimum requirements that data centers must meet to achieve the desired level of availability are described in this document.

Usually, in most large corporations, when implementing a new IT project, budgets are divided into different areas, in which the purchase of server and telecommunications equipment and specialized software is a priority. Investments in the infrastructure that will support their work are sidelined and considered less significant. However, most hardware failures and outages are caused by just one of the components that was saved - on the physical infrastructure. This trend is nevertheless changing, and this is due to a growing understanding of what high availability and simple data centers mean in terms of financial losses.

Tripp Lite is able to offer solutions for three of the four subsystems, which provides up to 75% of the data center or up to 90% of the physical data center infrastructure on Tripp Lite equipment. Consider the situation in more detail.

Mechanical subsystem:

• open racks, server and telecommunication cabinets and their accessories;
• point or additional cooling systems;
• sensors for environmental parameters monitoring.

Telecommunications subsystem:

• patch panels;
• KVM-switches and KMM-consoles;
• console servers;
• management and monitoring software.

Electrical subsystem:

• power distribution from UPS;
• cabinet power distribution units;
• uninterruptible power supply;
• automatic input of standby power supply line (ATS);
• inverters;
• voltage stabilizers.

Budget is based on availability level

Often, the choice of equipment is due to a limited budget, which will ultimately affect the availability of the entire system.

Learning about the need to develop a specific data center solution where cabinets, air conditioning and power distribution systems are needed, but not understanding what level of availability will be achieved, customers give the market the opportunity to implement this system. And they receive in response the most economical option or a variant with a minimum delivery time, and not what they really need due to the specifics of business tasks.

That's why Tripp Lite follows international standards in solution development, supports and recommends solutions to customers at every stage, without compromising the desired level of availability.

Maximum availability protection

Tripp Lite offers various options for maximizing data center protection. Systems with protection level N + 1, N + 2, 1 + 1, N + N are available for high availability of electric power. Hot-swappable UPS provide repair or maintenance without disconnection, which means DPC equipment outages. Moreover, a plurality of systems can be automated using control means such as PowerAlert software and network control cards that enable interaction with UPS, BRT, and environmental sensors.

What is required?

To properly invest in the data center, first of all you need to choose the standard to which it will comply. This will determine the approach to purchasing equipment, which must meet the selected standard and ensure the required level of availability. Therefore, it is reasonable to turn to data center experts. Tripp Lite has a staff of engineers able to give you the right recommendations.

Comprehensive Solutions

As part of our free end-to-end solution development service, experienced engineers will help you build a fully integrated solution to meet your unique needs. We assess your situation and provide practical recommendations for high availability, manageability and efficiency to achieve your goals.

Protect your data center and be prepared to increase power consumption in the summer. Practical Guide

In the summer months, with rising temperatures, power consumption also grows rapidly. Therefore, one of the main tasks of IT managers is to properly organize the work of the data center to prevent outages or damage to equipment and data loss. Tripp Lite, the world leader in high-quality power protection devices, offers you the main recommendations to ensure data center protection with a significant increase in power consumption.

• Use Tripp Lite Power Alert's cost-effective mode feature to reduce power consumption and significantly reduce heat across switching nodes and data centers.
• Hire a qualified electrician who will be responsible for power infrastructure. Make sure that the power consumption of the connected load does not exceed the permissible limits.
• Check that the grounding system is implemented correctly and meets the requirements. Otherwise, the power protection devices may not function properly.
• Check total load consumption connected to UPS. Ensure that the load power does not exceed 80% of the UPS power to prevent accidental system overload. In case of overload, the battery life of the UPS will be significantly shorter when the power is turned off.
• Check quality of cables and reliability of their connection to UPS and consumers.
• Check the quality of UPS and batteries connection. This will help to detect signs of wear or loosening of the cable connection in advance.
  • Perform battery testing during UPS installation and ideally every three months to verify UPS status.
  • Check battery status with ON Power Alert, LED/LCD, and audio indication on UPS control panel. Remember that the average battery life is 3 to 5 years, depending on their use and environmental settings.
  • Configure UPS to notify system administrators and IT managers when certain events occur. The alert can be configured to an email address or via SNMP, depending on the type of system (this option is available for directly connected UPS or UPS with management cards).
  • Develop a contingency plan. Check whether the equipment warranty is up to date and whether there is a backup system for an emergency.

• Plan for future growth in capacity consumption and consider whether the current UPS can support this growth.

2010: doubling sales in Russia

In 2010, the company doubled sales in Russia; by the fourth quarter, they compensated for their expenses, which were required to resume Russian business, and began to earn here. In the first half of 2011, the results in Russia are no worse than last year.

About half of Tripp Lite sales in Russia come from UPS 2-10 kVA and about 25% each from the most powerful systems and devices for the consumer market. Golden middle UPS are very popular in, USA where network filters are in high demand along with them, while in Russia customers are more interested in racks and other infrastructure components. 40-50% of Russian revenues are related to the project business, and distributors give the rest. Last year, the demand of Russian customers for modular UPS with a capacity of 40 and 80 kVA, which were used in a number of large projects, increased. These products enable Tripp Lite partners to deliver cost-optimized solutions.

The company works through the channel, offering partners products that can help in business development. The main concept of the company is to provide integrated solutions that include not only UPS, but also such infrastructure components as racks for hosting servers and telecommunications equipment, power distribution devices, and management software. In 2010, they began to offer mobile air conditioners.

Tripp Lite innovations include the world's first UPS system designed specifically for personal computers, as well as the world's most popular Isobar network filter, installed according to 2010 data by more than 16 million users in the world.