Small Telco Facility Protection

Small, business-critical spaceswhere business interruption

cannot be tolerated.

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Consider…

• Very early warning smoke detection is accepted as the solution for protecting mission-critical facilities

• The perceived cost of very early warning smoke detectors precludes their application in small environments

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The Solution…

• The new VESDA LaserFOCUS detector is the cost-effective very early warning solution for smaller environments

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The VESDA Advantage…

• The incipient stage of fire provides the widest window of opportunity to detector and control the spread of fire.

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The Result…

• VESDA gives the maximum warning of a potential fire

• VESDA buys time to respond to a fire threat

• Very early response enables services to be maintained

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The Result…

• With very early warning a Telco’s infrastructure service level commitments are protected

• VESDA LaserFOCUS is the solution for smaller, but still critical, facilities

National Exchanges, Long Distance

Regional and Local Critical Exchanges

Smaller PoPs (Point of Presence), CEVs (Controlled Environmental Vaults)Local Exchanges,ISP Applications, Wireless Exchanges and Huts

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

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Protecting Small Environments

• Telecommunication facilities exhibit dense concentrations of electronics

• High energy consumption requires continual cooling

• Air movement presents a challenge to conventional detection methods

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Air Conditioning Challenge

• Smoke in an air conditioned room travels with the airflow to the return air grille

• Placing sample holes at the grille provide protection

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Still Air

• In “low or no” air flow situations, smoke will travel to the ceiling

• Sample holes at the ceiling provides very early warning

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Code Compliance

• Air sampling detection provides a code compliant design– Installing sampling points where conventional

detectors would be placed in the ceiling provides a compliance to local codes and standards

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External Threat of Contamination

• Some environments use external cool air to maintain environmental operating temperature

• External air can be contaminated and threaten equipment operation and therefore should be monitored

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External Threat of Contamination

• 95% of all fire damage within facilities housing electronic equipment is non-thermal*

• At 16 ug/cm3 there is moderate corrosion with long term effects on electronics– This damage to equipment is detrimental to ongoing performance

• VESDA reduces the risk of equipment failure by detecting smoke at the earliest possible opportunity

*US Federal Commission of Communications

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VESDA Delivers…

• Wide sensitivity range, 0.025– 20% obs/m

• Multiple programmable alarm thresholds

• Dual stage air filtration

• Instant Fault Finder

• AutoLearn Smoke and Flow

• SonicFlow

• SwiftStart

• Comprehensive event logging

• Global distribution and support network

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Companies that standardize on VESDA

• AT&T

• Verizon

• Bell South

• Sprint

• Cable & Wireless

• Telstra

• Vodafone

• British Telecom

• Orange

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Summary

• VESDA is accepted as the solution for very early warning detection

• Very early warning detection reduces the risk of fire and ensures maximum uptime

• VESDA LaserFOCUS ensures your entire network is protected