AWS Outposts racks hardware specs
Gen2 Outposts racks
Outposts racks Details
Single-rack Outposts is a self-contained deployment that integrates compute and networking into a single 42U rack, with no separate network rack required. Multi-rack Outposts consist of one or more Outposts compute racks connected to an Outposts network rack. Inside the Outposts racks, you have hosts, switches, network patch panels, power shelves, and blank panels. Both configurations are designed for high availability with redundant network switches and power connections. You can also provision your Outposts with additional capacity for resiliency.
AWS delivers Gen2 Outposts racks to your preferred physical site fully assembled and ready to be rolled into final position. They are installed by AWS and simply need to be plugged into power and network.
Run AWS services locally on your Outposts rack
Compute: Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS
Storage: Amazon EBS
Networking: Amazon VPC, AWS Direct Connect, ALB
Database: Amazon RDS
IoT: AWS IoT Greengrass
Details
Each Outposts rack comes pre-configured with a mix of EC2 instance capacity and EBS storage volumes that you choose from a pre-curated catalog of configurations. Single-rack Outposts delivers this in a single 42U rack, while Multi-rack Outposts distributes capacity across one or more compute racks paired with a network rack. The hosts populating the Outposts racks are typically 1U or 2U and 21 inches wide.
General Purpose M8i and M7i
Compute Intensive C8i and C7i
Memory Intensive R8i and R7i
Accelerated networking: Bmn-sf2e, Bmn-cx2, and Bmn-cx3a
Networking
Outposts racks seamlessly extend your existing Amazon VPC from an AWS Region to your on-premises location. Single-rack Outposts includes integrated networking with no separate network rack required, while Multi-rack Outposts uses a dedicated network rack that allows for decoupling network from compute. Both configurations support the same VPC components accessible in the Region, including internet gateways, virtual private gateways, Amazon VPC Transit Gateways, and VPC endpoints.
Patch panels
AWS Outposts racks support the following uplink speeds and quantities for each network device.
The uplink speed and quantity are symmetrical. If you use 100 Gbps as the uplink speed, you must configure the link with forward error correction (FEC CL91). The Single-rack Outposts can support single-mode fiber (SMF) with Lucent Connector (LC), multimode fiber (MMF), or MMF OM4 with LC. AWS provides the optics that are compatible with the fiber that you provide at the rack position.
Outposts rack: Uplink speeds and number of uplinks
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Uplink speed
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Number of uplinks
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10 Gbps
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1, 2, 3, 4 |
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40 Gbps
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1, 2, 3, 4 |
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100 Gbps
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1, 2, 3, 4 |
Power
Outposts racks use a centralized redundant power conversion unit and a DC distribution system in the backplane. This is handled with line mate connectors so IT personnel need to just snap the host or switch into place to provide power. This improves reliability, cost, serviceability, and energy efficiency.
Power connectors
Outposts racks supports 10 kVA, 15 kVA, and 30 kVA power configurations with redundant feeds.
Power configuration for Gen2 Outposts: Single-rack and Multi-rack compute
The power shelf has two inputs, S1 and S2, that can be configured as follows.
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Configuration
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Redundant, single phase
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Redunant, three phase
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Single phase
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Three phase
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10 kVA
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4 x L6-30P or IEC309, 2 drops to S1 and 2 drops to S2 |
2 x AH530P7W or AH532P6W, 1 drop to S1 and 1 drop to S2 |
2 x L6-30P or IEC309, 2 drops to S1 |
1 x AH530P7W or AH532P6W, 1 drop to S1 |
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15 kVA
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6 x L6-30P or IEC309, 3 drops to S1 and 3 drops to S2 |
2 x AH530P7W or AH532P6W, 1 drop to S1 and 1 drop to S2 |
3 x L6-30P or IEC309, 3 drops to S1 |
1 x AH530P7W or AH532P6W, 1 drop to S1 |
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30 kVA (dual power shelves)
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12 x L6-30P or IEC309, 3 drops to S1 and 3 drops to S2 on two power shelves |
4 x AH530P7W or AH532P6W or CS8365C, 1 drop to S1 and 1 drop to S2 on two power shelves |
6 x L6-30P or IEC309, 3 drops to S1 on two power shelves |
6 x L6-30P or IEC309, 3 drops to S1 on two power shelves |
AC line voltage
Single phase 208 to 277 VAC (50 or 60 Hz) or wye three phase 346 to 480 VAC (50 to 60 Hz) or delta three phase 208 to 230 VAC (50 to 60 Hz)
Power consumption
10 kVA (9 kW), 15 kVA (13 kW), or 30 kVA (26 kW)
AC protection (upstream power breakers)
30 or 32 or 50 A
AC inlet type (receptacle)
Single phase L6-30P (30A) or IEC309 P+N+E, 6 hour (32 A), three phase AH530P7W 3P+N+E, 7 hour (30A), or three phase AH532P6W 3P+N+E 6 hour (32 A), or three phase Non-NEMA twistlock Hubbell CS8365C, 3P+E, center ground (50A)
Whip length
10.25 ft (3 m)
Whip - Rack cabling input
From above or below
Facility
Outposts racks are delivered and installed by AWS technicians into a facility of your choice.
Casters and stands
Outposts racks comes on casters to easily roll into the desired space in your facility. Stands are installed in-place.
Physical dimensions
Height: 80 inches (203 cm)
Width: 24 inches (61 cm)
Depth: 48 inches (122 cm)
Facility requirements
Temperature and humidity - The ambient temperature must be between 41 F (5 C) and 95 F (35 C). The relative humidity must be between 8 percent and 80 percent with no condensation.
Airflow - The rack position must provide at least 145.8 times the kVA of cubic feet per minute (CFM) airflow. Airflow is front-to-back, cold aisle to hot aisle.
Loading dock - Your loading dock must accommodate a rack crate that is 94 inches (239 cm) high by 54 inches (138 cm) wide by 51 inches (130 cm) deep.
Weight support - The location where the rack will be installed and the path to that location must support the weight specified in the order summary at the rack point loads. This includes freight and standard elevators.
Clearance - The Single-rack Outposts is 80 inches (203 cm) high, 24 inches (61 cm) wide, and 48 inches (122 cm) deep. Any doorways, hallways, turns, ramps, and elevators must provide sufficient clearance. At the final resting position, there must be a 24 inch (61 cm) wide by 48 inch (122 cm) deep area for the rack. There must be an additional 48 inches (122 cm) of front clearance and 24 inches (61 cm) of rear clearance. The total minimum area required is 24 inches (61 cm) wide by 10 feet (305 cm) deep.
Seismic bracing - To the extent required by regulation or code, you will install and maintain appropriate seismic anchorage and bracing for the rack while it is in your facility.
Bonding point - We recommend that you provide a bonding wire/point at the rack position so that your electrician can bond the rack during installation, which will be validated by the AWS-certified technician.
Elevation - The elevation of the room where the rack is installed must be below 10,005 feet (3,050 meters). You will not change the facility in a way that negatively affects the ability of AWS to access, service, or remove the Single-rack Outposts.
Multi-rack Outposts network rack
An Outposts network rack serves as a traffic aggregation layer for all connected compute and storage racks. It allows you to decouple compute scaling from networking, optimizing resource utilization and helping you get the most out of your Outposts investment. It also comes with built-in resiliency to handle network device failures, making it easier for you to architect for high availability of your Outposts network. The Outposts network rack is required for all Multi-rack Outposts deployments.
Security
AWS is responsible for protecting the infrastructure of Outposts racks similar to how it secures infrastructure in the AWS Regions today. Customers are responsible for securing their applications running on Outposts racks as they do in the Region today.
Additionally, customers are responsible for the physical security of their Outpost racks, and for ensuring consistent networking to the Outpost.
Lockable door
Each Outposts rack comes with built-in tamper detection. It is an enclosed rack with a lockable door.
Nitro Cards
Every host on an Outposts rack has a Nitro Chip. The Nitro System enables the most secure cloud platform that continuously monitors, protects, and verifies the instance hardware and firmware. Virtualization resources are offloaded to dedicated hardware and software minimizing the attack surface. Finally, Nitro System's security model is locked down and prohibits all administrative access, including those of Amazon employees, eliminating the possibility of human error and tampering.
Encryption key
AWS ensures that all your data is protected and remains in your control. All data is encrypted at rest in the Nitro System that is present in every host. The encryption key is wrapped to an external key stored in a removable device. This removable device is present in every host on the Outposts rack. Destroying the device is equivalent to destroying the data.
At the end of your Outposts rack term, when AWS removes the rack from the premises, you will also be required to destroy the device. This ensures your data won’t leave the premises.
Facility requirements
Specialized Configuration for Accelerated Networking EC2 Instances (2nd Generation)
Outpost racks
A logical Outpost deployment consists of one or more Outposts compute racks connected to an Outposts network rack. Inside the Outposts racks, we have hosts, switches, network patch panels, power shelves, and blank panels. Outposts racks are designed for high availability with redundant network switches and power connections. You can also provision your Outpost compute racks with additional capacity for resiliency. AWS delivers the Outposts racks to your preferred physical site fully assembled and ready to be rolled into final position. They are installed by AWS and the racks need to be simply plugged into power and network.
Hosts
Hosts
Requirement details
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Each Outposts compute rack comes pre-configured with accelerated networking EC2 instances that you choose from a pre-curated catalog of configurations.
The hosts populating the Outposts rack are typically 1U or 2U and 21 inches wide.
Supported EC2 instances include
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Accelerated networking: Bmn-sf2e, Bmn-cx2, and Bmn-cx3a
Bmn-sf2e instances
Bmn-sf2e instances are optimized for ultra-low latency workloads that require deterministic performance.
Features:
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Powered by the latest 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors deliver an all core turbo frequency of up to 3.9 GHz
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Includes AMD Solarflare™ X2522 Ethernet Adapters connected to top-of-rack (TOR) switches
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Available as bare metal instances to minimize latency and jitter
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Support booting from local instance storage
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Support Layer 2 (L2) multicast, hardware-based Precision Time Protocol (PTP), and equal length cabling between the accelerator cards and TOR switches to deliver deterministic performance
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Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
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Hosts details
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Instance size
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vCPU
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Memory (GiB)
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Instance Storage (GB)
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Network Bandwidth (Gbps)
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Accelerated Network Cards
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Accelerated Network Bandwidth (Gbps)
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EBS Bandwidth (Gbps)
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bmn-sf2e.metal-16xl
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64 |
512 |
2x 8000 NVMe |
25 |
2 |
100 |
20 |
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bmn-sf2e.metal-32xl
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128 |
1,024 |
4x 8000 NVMe |
50 |
4 |
200 |
40 |
Use cases:
Matching engines, trading gateways, and feed handlers of financial exchanges
Bmn-cx2 instances
Bmn-cx2 instances are optimized for high throughput and low latency workloads.
Features:
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Powered by the latest 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids)
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Includes NVIDIA ConnectX-7 400G NICs connected to TOR switches
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Available as bare metal instances to minimize latency and jitter
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Support booting from local instance storage
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Support Layer 2 (L2) multicast and hardware-based Precision Time Protocol (PTP); also support equal length cabling between the accelerator cards and TOR switches if required
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Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
Hosts details
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Instance size
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vCPU
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Memory (GiB)
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Instance Storage (GB)
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Network Bandwidth (Gbps)
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Accelerated Network Cards
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Accelerated Network Bandwidth (Gbps)
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EBS Bandwidth (Gbps)
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bmn-cx2.metal-48xl
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192 |
1,024 |
4x 4000 NVMe |
50 |
2 |
800 |
40 |
Use cases:
Real-time market data distribution, telecom 5G Core and Radio Access Network (RAN) Centralized Unit (CU), and media distribution
Contact your AWS Sales Representative or submit this form if you need a custom instance configuration for your unique application requirements
Networking
In addition to the networking capabilities listed in the section “Standard Configuration (2nd Generation)”, Outposts rack deployments with accelerated networking EC2 instances feature a secondary bare metal network with accelerated network cards within the EC2 hosts directly connected to in-rack top-of-rack (TOR) switches.
Networking details
For Bmn-sf2e instances, the bare metal network can be configured to accept an external 1 pps (packets per second) time source and deliver external hardware-based Precision Time Protocol (PTP) clock sources directly to the Bmn-sf2e instances for single-digit nanosecond resolution timestamps.
Redundant centralized power conversion unit
The Outposts compute rack power shelf supports two power configurations. The configuration of the power shelf depends on how the host capacity is racked. The Outposts network rack power shelf supports one power configuration.
Bus bar
A central power bus bar in the back to distribute power to each server. We have whips supporting a variety of common power types.
Gen1 Rack Details
A logical Outpost deployment consists of one or more physical Outposts racks with compute, storage, and networking capabilities within each rack. Inside we have hosts, switches, a network patch panel, a power shelf, and blank panels. Outposts racks are designed for high availability with redundant network switches and power connections. You can also provision your Outposts rack with additional capacity for resiliency.
AWS delivers the Outposts rack to your preferred physical site fully assembled and ready to be rolled into final position. It is installed by AWS and the rack needs to be simply plugged into power and network.
Run AWS Services locally on your Outposts rack
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Compute: Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS
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Storage: Amazon EBS, Amazon S3
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Networking: Amazon VPC, AWS Direct Connect, ALB, Route 53 Resolver
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Database: Amazon RDS
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Analytics: Amazon EMR
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IoT: AWS IoT Greengrass
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Disaster recovery and migration: AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Run same AWS APIs & tools as in the AWS Region
Hosts
Each Outposts rack comes pre-configured with a mix of EC2 instance capacity and EBS storage volumes that you choose from a pre-curated catalog of configurations.
The hosts populating the Outposts rack are typically 1U or 2U and 21 inches wide.
Supported EC2 instances include
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General Purpose M5
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Compute Intensive C5
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Memory Intensive R5
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Graphics Optimized G4
To run the latest EC2 instance types locally, check out the second-generation Outposts racks.
Networking Speed
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Uplink speed
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Number of uplinks
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1 Gbps
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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10 Gbps
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1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 16
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40 Gbps
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1, 2, 3, 4
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100 Gbps
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1, 2, 3, 4
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Networking
After installation, you can create a subnet in your regional VPC and associate it with an Outpost just as you associate subnets with an Availability Zone in an AWS Region. Instances in Outpost subnets communicate with other instances in the AWS Region using private IP addresses, all within the same VPC.
Network Switches
Every Outposts rack has two physical network devices that attach to your local network. To connect to your local network you will need a minimum of two physical links between these Outposts rack network devices and your local network devices. AWS provides the optics that are compatible with the fiber that you provide at the rack position.
The power shelf has two inputs, S1 and S2, that can be configured as follows
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Configuration
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Redundant, single phase
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Redundant, three phase
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Single phase
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Three phase
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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5 kVA
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2 x L6-30P or IEC309, 1 drop to S1 and 1 drop to S2 |
2 x AH530P7W or AH532P6W, 1 drop to S1 and 1 drop to S2 |
1 x L6-30P or IEC309, 1 drop to S1 |
1 x AH530P7W or AH532P6W, 1 drop to S1 |
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10 kVA
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4 x L6-30P or IEC309, 2 drops to S1 and 2 drops to S2 |
2 x AH530P7W or AH532P6W, 1 drop to S1 and 1 drop to S2 |
2 x L6-30P or IEC309, 2 drops to S1 |
1 x AH530P7W or AH532P6W, 1 drop to S1 |
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15 kVA
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6 x L6-30P or IEC309, 3 drops to S1 and 3 drops to S2 |
2 x AH530P7W or AH532P6W, 1 drop to S1 and 1 drop to S2 |
3 x L6-30P or IEC309, 3 drops to S1 |
1 x AH530P7W or AH532P6W, 1 drop to S1 |
The power shelf has two inputs, S1 and S2, that can be configured as follows
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AC line voltage
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Single phase 208 to 277 VAC (50 or 60 Hz) or three phase 346 to 480 VAC (50 to 60 Hz)
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|---|---|
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Power consumption
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5 kVA (4kW), 10 kVA (9 kW), or 15 kVA (13 kW)
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AC protection (upstream power breakers)
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30 or 32 A
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AC inlet type (receptable)
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Single phase L6-30P (30A) or IEC309 P+N+E, 6 hour (32 A), three phase AH530P7W 3P+N+E, 7 hour (30A), three phase AH532P6W 3P+N+E 6 hour (32 A), or three-phase 1xNon-NEMA twistlock Hubbell CS8365C, 3P+E, center ground (50A)
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Whip length
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10.25 ft (3 m)
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Whip - Rack cabling input
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From above or below
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Facility requirements
The following diagram shows the total minimum area required for the Outposts rack, including clearance.