Markets Served Success Story: WMBB-TV Data Centers & IT

We have problems on a regular basis, almost daily. But everything attached to the UPSs keeps right on working. Laurence Richesin, chief engineer

5PX units keep TV station on the air without disruption

Location: Background “A power problem takes us “In the future, I will be Panama City, Fla. off the air,” explains Laurence purchasing four more of the WMBB-TV serves nine counties Richesin, chief engineer at UPSs to cover some new in the Panhandle, Segment: WMBB-TV. “And that brings the racks of equipment that will be representing more than 139,700 Communication revenue stream down.” deployed in the spring of 2012,” homes and a viewing audience he reveals. Problem: in excess of 320,000. After Yet it’s a programming glitch The TV station needed a high- signing on the air on Oct. 4, the station has experienced The existing trio of 5PX units, availability solution with extended 1973 as WDTB-TV, an NBC in the past with APC units, installed in the bottom of runtime that wouldn’t occupy a lot of affiliate, the station was later which Richesin reveals have equipment racks, is tasked with real estate in its equipment racks. sold to Octagon Broadcasting of frequently failed. In an effort to safeguarding a broad range of , and the call letters were remedy this, WMBB-TV sought station equipment, including an Solution: changed to WMBB-TV, home a new UPS solution capable audio/video router that directs ® Eaton 5PX UPS of the World’s Most Beautiful of garnering five stars from everything in the building, Results: Beaches. critics. Unparalleled reliability, several banks of audio disk long battery life, and a compact arrays, and a rack of satellite The 5PX not only ensures Challenge continuous uptime to connected footprint that wouldn’t occupy devices. The UPSs’ value is a lot of space in the company’s underscored by frequent power equipment, but does so with Regardless of the type of rack environment were among failures. extended battery life and a programming being broadcast the features the station looked convenient rackmount design. at WMBB-TV, it is the station’s ”We have problems on a regular for in its casting call. uninterruptible power system basis, almost daily,” Richesin (UPS) that holds the power to Solution says. ”But everything attached either emerge as a star — or to the UPSs keeps right on cause ratings to plummet. That’s Shining in its audition was the working.” because the ability to keep Eaton 5PX, an enterprise-class equipment up and running at all battery backup solution offering Thankfully, the 5PX has also times is a requisite that cannot exceptional manageability. solved one of the biggest be downplayed at the busy TV Having deployed three units challenges the station faced station. to date, Richesin is already with its previous APC units: planning to expand the 5PX cast. battery life. “I have found that over three or four battery cycles, the APC unit itself fails,” reports Richesin. Conversely, the 5PX relies on Another key benefit of the 5PX The 5PX is also bundled with Results Eaton’s exclusive ABM® battery is the fact that the UPS protects Eaton’s Intelligent Power® With its three 5PX units in charging technology, which more devices by providing 28 Software Suite, which place — and more to come in uses sophisticated sensing percent more wattage than seamlessly integrates with the near future — WMBB-TV circuitry and an innovative traditional UPSs. “I like the small the VMware® vCenter Server™ can focus all of its attention on three-stage charging technique size of the unit, which doesn’t virtualization management programming, not power. The to extend the useful service take up a lot of rack space,” solution, as well as other popular UPSs allow the station to: life of the batteries while adds Richesin. platforms from manufacturers optimizing recharge time. ABM such as Citrix®, Microsoft® and • Safeguard its critical Furthermore, the 5PX’s technology also provides up Red Hat®. The Eaton software equipment against outages exceptional warranty covers to 60 days’ notice of the end provides all of the tools needed and other power anomalies both the UPS and the batteries of useful battery service life, to monitor and manage power for three years, a backing offered • allowing ample time to hot- devices across the network Ensure programs remain on by no other manufacturers in the swap batteries without ever by combining the most critical the air, even during a power industry. Another highlight is the having to shut down connected applications to ensure system failure unit’s extended runtime options, equipment. Furthermore, uptime and data integrity. The • with the ability to accommodate Preserve floor space with the incoming voltage fluctuations are solution not only offers power up to four extended battery compact, rackmount units corrected by the UPS so they monitoring and management, modules (EBMs) for maximum • don’t affect the performance of but also graceful shutdown Power more equipment runtime connected equipment. during an extended power compared to traditional UPSs outage and extensive notification • Extend battery service life capabilities. with Eaton’s ABM technology

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