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Protect Your Street Level Equipment With Raycap Street Cabinets

The protection of your critical equipment is a necessity if you are to maintain a profitable status in today’s business climate.  The level of competition that is seen within most tech heavy businesses squeezes margins to the point of being almost non-existent, and without the effective streamlining of operations in order to reduce costs a business can easily find themselves bankrupt.  For this reason, most savvy business owners and managers are investing in systems and components that will provide extra protection for the expensive equipment that they rely upon in order to function.  This equipment may be potentially damaged in the field due to natural events like lightning strikes and the associated surges, or it could also be damaged by less dramatic events.  The one aspect that remains consistent is that damage to the equipment in the field has a negative effect on the bottom line, and extending the life span of that equipment is worth the added costs of protection systems over time. (more…)

Effective Surge Protection For Modern Businesses

Today’s world is an interconnected one, and highly technologically advanced systems interact with our daily lives almost constantly. Each year, statistics show that people are more reliant upon their phones and wireless devices to conduct their business, even if that business is as simple as using a search engine to answer simple questions about home improvements. We are continually exposed to information that is housed on computers and data centers elsewhere, and our access to this information is one of the main reasons that modern life is considered easier than the past. Access to knowledge is the greatest accomplishment of modern man. (more…)

Data Surge Protection In A Technological World

The world has dramatically changed in the past 25 years, and while the period at the early part of the century may have seen dramatic changes in the visual aspects of our cities and structures, the modern world is being improved in ways that are not so easily noticed.  Skyscrapers and dams dazzled people in past eras, but today they seem commonplace even if the achievement is no less wonderous.  In today’s world, technology rules the landscape and the improvements to people’s lives are generally found within these invisible systems.  The majority of technological advancement over the course of the last decade has involved connectivity and the ability for information to be shared through connected computers.  While the storage itself of information has grown by leaps and bounds, it is the ability for this information stored on one computer to be accessed by others that has truly changed things.  With each new system that is developed in order to share a specific kind of data, the world changes more. (more…)

Surge protection is one of the most important and yet underappreciated aspects of the green energy movement.  This is primarily due to a simple lack of understanding about the green energy systems themselves, and where the costs associated with production of electricity come from.  In order to understand the need for highly technologically advanced surge protection devices and systems with regard to green energy, we must provide a brief background into the production methods in order to clear up misconceptions.  First and foremost, electricity produced using “green” methods is not without cost.  The comparisons to other production methods like fossil fuel burning only go as far as the point beyond the actual manufacture of the electricity product.  The two methods are the same past that point, with the electricity having fixed costs associated with transportation and storage.  The costs that are associated with the actual fuel source that turns the turbines is misunderstood when making comparisons.  The wind and sun have no costs associated with them, and are harnessed in a way that turns the turbines and manufactures electricity in the same way.  So if there is no cost associated with the fuel source in green technology, then why has it historically cost the consumer more in the end? (more…)

If green energy does not need to pay for things like coal, wood or oil to burn in order to make electricity, then why does it cost us more at the end of the day? This is a question that is not understood by many people who are voting in order to fund research that would benefit green energy producers, and ultimately is one of the reasons that many places still rely upon dirty production techniques.  The support of research that can advance green technology is critical to the ongoing advancement of it as a viable alternative if it is to be called upon to produce energy for larger communities.  The truth of the matter is that with more public support, advancements could be made that would ultimately bring production costs down below that of fossil fuels, which would ultimately create a product that does less damage to the environment while also costing consumers less.  Once that state is achieved, there is no reason to continue to utilize outdated methods of producing power, and the world will absorb less damage as a result of those methods. (more…)

The telecommunications industry is highly specialized, and as a result needs both specialized equipment and connectivity structures in order to provide the services that are required.  While the specialized equipment is susceptible to damage simply due to its electronic nature, this issue is amplified within the telecommunications industry due to the equipment being positioned in the field.  For a simplified understanding of the dangers that are faced, we must consider the necessary components and setups that bring cell service to users.  A coverage area is the amount of ground that is able to be serviced by a cell tower by having a signal be within range.  A person holding a cell phone within this area of coverage will receive and transmit signals between their device and the tower.  For a coverage area to be without dead areas, the amount of space that each tower can effectively cover must overlap between towers, creating a larger space that is without gaps.  The signals to the tower that is within range must be able to be unobstructed in order to be clear and strong, essentially guaranteeing that the cell towers that are providing the service to the customers in that area are the tallest structures within that area, and are sometimes located in relatively remote areas as well.  This makes the towers themselves a natural target for lightning strikes, which have the characteristic of taking the path of least resistance to earth.  This means that lightning is mostly going to strike the tower if it is within the vicinity of it.  While there are techniques and devices that attempt to draw the strike away from the tower itself so as to prevent direct strikes, it is nearly impossible to completely prevent a lightning strike to such a perfect target.  For this reason, lightning rods and overhead shields will only prevent a portion of strikes to cellular towers. (more…)

The solar power production industry represents not only billions of dollars in technological investment, but also a future world of cleaner environments and cheaper power.  The debate surrounding the solar industry in its goal to be recognized by global governments as a viable alternative to fossil fuel energy production is connected completely to money, and the protection of an antiquated fossil fuel industry and methodology that not only employs people but also generates profits in the billions of dollars every year.  The fossil fuel industry is well established, and as such has large amounts of money to spend on lobbying and misinformation campaigns designed to sway public opinion.  The alternative forms of power production represent a significant threat to their bottom line, and therefore alternative energies are being fought at every step.  If alternative forms of energy production such as  wind and solar were more readily recognized as superior to fossil fuels, there is a possibility that larger amounts of government research and funding would be granted to them, potentially solving two key issues that keep green energy production smaller than fossil fuels.  These two issues are cost of manufacturing and the ability to manufacture enough to support communities single handed, without the need for backup forms of production to satisfy demand.  What this means is that all arguments against the full embrace of wind and solar by governments globally boils down to community support, and people are lead to believe that these methods of production are more expensive and cannot produce enough to keep the lights on 24 hours a day.  Embracing these alternative forms of production could create funding streams that solve these issues, for instance finding vialble electrical storage systems for alternative energy sources, and creating an effective end to the strangle hold that fossil fuel power production has on the world.  These are the reasons that there is such an effort to stifle progress and technological development that could advance the industry, expanding production capacities and lowering costs. But eventually the tide will turn, it has to. (more…)

Benjamin Franklin flew his kite during a storm in an attempt to study the properties of lightning, and since this time lightning has been a major topic of study.  Franklin was seeking information on a way to potentially control lightning by conducting a strike to a specific place, and nearly all of the research and development since has followed the same idea.  Lightning is devastating, and has the ability to create huge amounts of damage in a completely unpredictable way.  There is nearly no way to prepare a specific area for a strike before one happens because we have no method of predicting where the strike will land.  We can assume that there will be lightning strikes, and we can make predictions based on research about lightning being attracted to specific properties like metals, height and isolation.  However we cannot predict exactly when the lightning strike will happen, if ever.  All we can do is put in place the best form of protection against the lightning strike, and hope that it never has to be tested.  Lightning is a force powerful enough to completely destroy nearly anything, and kill instantly.  We have no method of preventing it from happening, so all we can do is guard against it as best we can. (more…)