The central office power plant of the future

The author describes an integrated system approach which would create a comprehensive power system that would have the flexibility to serve the power needs of the future central office, with systems to support multimedia and various operational support systems. All requirements for surge immunity, even higher than normal, could be met in a manner where a complete pre-engineered, pre-packaged, pre-constructed system would exist. This would remove the traditional E, F and I tasks from the process thus contributing to predictability, easy of installation, ease of expansion, higher reliability and lower service costs, less debate about how to construct each local site, better customer relations, and a higher quality system that would be verified before leaving the factory.<>