Subject: Power Protection Solutions for Computer and Communication Network Systems

Sponsor: IEEE Communications Society, Washington-N. Virginia Chapter

Date: April 16th, 1998

Place: George Washington University, Academic Center (22nd & I St. NW)

Room T-640, EE Dept., One block from the Foggy Bottom Metro

Parking across from Academic Center

Time: 11:45 Bring your own brown bag lunch & Registration

12:00-1 p.m. Presentation

Speaker: Ben Smith and Fred Pearson from American Power Conversion _________________________________________________________

All communications systems are heavily dependent on the quality of the supplied power to ensure proper operation. This critical discussion will divided into two parts: The first part will include discussions related to power problems and the causes and effects in the IT world. Solutions. Ben will discuss some of the new high end products APC has just launched including the Symmetra Power Array and its new Power sharing technology and an introduction of the APC PowerAudit service.

The second part of the discussion will include a presentation of how the APC PowerAudit can detect power problems and what kind of unique services PowerAudit offers to find these power problems and recommend solutions to increase the uptime of a computer communication network. Fred will demonstrate the type instrumentation used to perform a PowerAudit and show some representative measurement waveforms. The difference between the National Electrical Code Standards and the IEEE Standard 1100-1996 will be explained and why networks need IEEE Standards.

Ben Smith is the APC District Manager for the Mid-Atlantic territory. He has been with APC for 3.5 years and served as a Customer Support Engineer, Inside Sales Engineer, Inside Sales Manager, and District Manager over that time period. He has a BS in Mathematics and MS in Engineering.

Fred A. Pearson III is a Power Quality Engineer for American Power Conversion. As a member of the PowerAudit team, he performs an on-site consulting service ( i.e. Power Audit ) that determines power quality and recommends a power protection strategy to improve the reliability and up-time of information processing equipment by combining thorough investigation, sophisticated test equipment, power expertise, and knowledge of the National Electric Code, IEEE Standard 1100-1992, and EIA/TIA Standard 607. Mr. Pearson has over 25 years experience in the electronics field. His extensive background includes the manufacture and testing of ultrasonic delay lines, commercial and government radio broadcasting, field service on tensile strength test machines, measurement instrumentation sales, and sales applications for sound and vibration data analysis instrumentation.

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Prepared by Don Rickerson, Vice Chair Programs, 202-651-3912