Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Fire Protection in Electronic Equipment Facilities Services
Your Business Challenge
Most companies rely on a private network for their operations or maintain a public network for their customers. Fires represent a serious financial threat to businesses. In addition to the immeasurable negative impact on consumer confidence in your service, cable-rack and equipment fires can significantly disrupt communications service and ultimately slash revenues.
There are many questions a company needs to answer when developing a plan to help protect their equipment from fire damage:
- Can energized equipment fires be contained and extinguished by water?
- Which fire detector is most effective in network facilities?
- Is smoke management a viable way to reduce non-thermal damage?
- What effects will water have on electronic equipment?
- Should electronic equipment damaged by fire be cleaned or replaced?
- What threshold of collateral damage can my company accept?
We have your solution
Successful protection of equipment facilities from fire relies heavily on proactive preventative strategies. Telcordia Technologies has conducted a series of realistic fire tests that have resulted in an informative study that is available to you. The goal of the study is to help you develop a strategy based on reliable and relevant test results. The study includes:
- A comprehensive analysis and full report of the test results
- A brief document that summarizes key findings
- A narrated video demonstrating the results with fire test footage
We are a leading advisor to service providers on fire protection requirements and standards. Our Risk Management experts have helped companies save millions of dollars by avoiding costly fire damage to their equipment.
Benefits
After examining the study and its key findings, you will be better able to develop a fire protection strategy that is based on sound evidence and advice. Once implemented, the new strategy will:
- Quantify thermal and non-thermal fire damage
- Assess the performance of smoke detector technologies
- Evaluate the effectiveness of water suppression on electronic equipment
- Determine the viability of smoke management in reducing non-thermal damage
- Rethink and update current fire protection practices and strategies