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44 I ICT TODAY Add the Specialized Skill Set of Outside Plant ™ Design to Your Professional Portfolio AS A BICSI OSP DESIGNER ○ Required for design and installation personnel on many OSP ™ projects ○ Enhanced BICSI OSP career pathways may make you eligible to apply ○ Uses the latest technologies, methods and best practices ○ Opens door to new job and promotional opportunities Learn how the OSP credential can make a difference in your career. bicsi.org/osp TM With an integrated PDU system, there is no need for a dedicated controller for the electronic locks. The locks also get powered up through auxiliary ports on the PDU. Operators can monitor, manage and authorize each cabinet access attempt wherever the cabinet is situated through remote management to the PDU, which is already part of the data center cabinet ecosystem. This significantly reduces the initial cost of deployment of cabinet-level locks as well as ongoing operating costs. Using this integrated, intuitive interface, data center operators are easily able to provide log reports for criti- cal audit trails for regulatory compliance. It also reduces the need for wiring the electronic access systems to security panels, eliminating another unnecessary expense (Figure 6). Card IDs can be stored within the PDU web interface. The PDU firmware should support either a standalone list of authorized users or integrate with third-party databases that control user access and rights management. For cen- tralized authentication, either enterprise authentication services (i.e., those supporting networking protocols RADIUS, LDAP, Active Directory) or a DCIM solution can be used. FIGURE 6: Linking all integrated PDUs in a secure array allows up to 32 devices and all attached sensors and locks to share a single network via the IP consolidation connection, potentially saving companies thousands in networking costs. Single Network Connection 16 Cabinets with locks 32 PDUs 64 Sensors