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Mission Critical Protection

The essence of e-commerce is the ability to offer customers round-the-clock, uninterrupted access to the internet.  A fire in any critical facility that makes up the internet—from hosting sites and internet hotels, to routing and switching facilities, to fiber optic and satellite transmission stations—can knock out an internet service provider's vital link to their customers.  And with hundreds of choices only a mouse click away, any problem in your facility means your customers lose traffic, and revenue.  The ability of an ISP to provide uninterrupted service is a critical element in every e-commerce company's mission, and is vital to the continued productivity and profitability of you and your customers' business.

Despite the low occurrence of fires experienced by internet service providers, the risk continues to increase as computers and transmission equipment become faster and denser, requiring more power and generating more heat.  Uninterruptible power systems and their storage batteries pose an additional fire risk.  

While many internet service providers rely on sprinklers as the only fire protection in their facilities, and employ responsible contingency planning techniques such as backups, redundancy, and mirroring, a risk assessment reveals that:

  • Sprinklers are designed to (and are very effective at) protecting the building structure, but not your assets.
  • Sprinklers need significant heat to operate, requiring a full flaming fire, destroying assets (i.e. computers and other electronic equipment) at the source of the fire.
  • Assets surrounding the fire suffer collateral damage from water and smoke, with smoke contamination often destroying electronic equipment quite a distance away from the incident.
  • The cost of business interruption, including software recovery, loss of data, clean up, as well as the lost revenue when systems are down, is often significantly more than the cost of the asset destroyed in the fire.
  • Downtime costs can be enormous… revenue per hour has been estimated to be $1.3M for a large business in the information technology sector.

Fenwal Protection Systems and its worldwide network of factory-trained distributors can provide internet service providers with the best waterless fire protection systems, to minimize business interruption caused by fire.  Our innovative products to protect mission critical facilities include:
Clean Agent Suppression Systems

can snuff out a fire in seconds.  Fenwal clean agents are people-safe, environmentally responsible, and do not damage sensitive electronic equipment.  They minimize fire-related downtime and clean-up costs, leaving no watery mess or powdery residue, making them perfectly suited for ISP facilities.

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High Sensitivity Smoke Detection Systems

can provide the earliest possible warning in a potential fire situation.  Fenwal HSSD® is able to detect plasticizers released by overheating electrical equipment, before any significant smoke is visible.  As an air-sampling smoke detector, it provides superior performance in the highly air-conditioned environment found in ISP facilities.

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intelligent detection and control

combine detection and suppression capabilities into a single integrated fire protection system.  The FenwalNET™ control panel and SmartOne™ intelligent detectors provide worry-free automatic fire protection system for your ISP facility.

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